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Brunei tops Asean in obesity
28/04/2008
BRUNEI has the highest obesity rate among Asean member countries, according to a recent World Health Organisation (WHO)...
DES working overtime to restore power
28/04/2008
THE Department of Electrical Services (DES) has asked the public to be patient and understanding as engineers continue...
Brunei, Apec to cooperate on global ICT access
28/04/2008
BRUNEI joined other Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) countries in signing a new agreement to collaborate on...
Innovation is the key, civil servants told
28/04/2008
TODAY a nation's competitiveness is measured in its ability to provide an environment in which firms can operate...
How Arabs were driven out of Hebron
28/04/2008
HEBRON is the image of desolation and pain. I'm talking of the H-2 sector, the oldest part of this ancient city, which...
'Our reign of terror', by the Israeli army
28/04/2008
The dark-haired 22-year-old in black T-shirt, blue jeans and red Crocs is understandably hesitant as he sits at a...
Armitage's Odysseus both Shakespearean and Homeric
28/04/2008
THE poet, novelist and playwright Simon Armitage turns up in some interesting places. In January of this year,...
David Rockefeller pledges US$100 million to Harvard
28/04/2008
RETIRED banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller has pledged US$100 million ($136 million) to Harvard University,...
'We read to know we are not alone'
28/04/2008
LAST week at Jerudong International School Anne Fine, the children's novelist, spoke to over a thousand pupils from six...
M'sia 'warrior mosquito' plan under fire
28/04/2008
ENVIRONMENTALISTS have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Malaysia to...
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