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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
SINGAPOREAN President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam (pictured), with First Lady Mary Tan, will be visiting Brunei next week from May 28-30.According to reports, Dr Tan will meet with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam and...
A SEMINAR exploring contemporary issues in Mazhab Shafi'i was held at the Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA) yesterday.Invited local and international Muslim scholars presented a total of 18 working papers addressing various contemporary...
THE Police Reserve Unit of the Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) will be sending its personnel to Singapore this June to participate in the Brunei-Singapore joint police exercise BRUSING.Commanding officer of RBPF's Reserve Unit Senior...
A MAN who pleaded guilty to multiple theft-related offences in Kuala Belait last year was jailed for four years and four months yesterday at the Intermediate Court.Defendant Rosman Abdullah Nyambong, 41, pleaded guilty to stealing three cars,...
SEVERAL recipients of the "Pingat Indah Kerja Baik" (PIKB) or Excellent Service Medals and "Pingat Kerja Lama" (PKL) or Long Service Medals at yesterday's investiture ceremony hope to be role models for their younger peers...
AN Indian man was imposed a $3,600 fine by the Magistrates' Court after he pleaded guilty to possessing of undeclared cigarettes and alcoholic beverages.The defendant, Pachaimuthu Muthukrishnan, 41, was brought to the Royal Customs and Excise...
A FURTHER 592 people were awarded medals of honour for outstanding achievement and long service to the government and country on the second day of an investiture ceremony at Istana Nurul Iman yesterday.The honours were bestowed with the consent of...
ORGANISING and participating in Tahlil ceremonies according to the Mazhab Shafi'i is permitted (harus), said an academic from the Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA) yesterday.Dr Hj Sayyed Abdul Hamed al-Mahdaly, who is a lecturer at the...
HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam (pictured) conveyed his condolences to US President Barack H Obama yesterday, following the deadly tornado that struck Oklahoma City recently. In the message, His Majesty, as well as...
BRUNEI'S former Chief Justice, Dato Seri Paduka Sir Denys Roberts (pictured), has died of kidney failure at the age of 90. It was reported yesterday he passed away at his home in Norfolk, England, with his wife, Fiona, and son, Henry, at his...
ASEM workshop participants get a hands on experience in Brunei's pristine forest.
THE British Forces Brunei (BFB) Garrison announce that they will be hosting an Open Day at the British Garrison Sports Complex in Seria tomorrow.Scheduled to be held on Thursday, May 23, in the afternoon, the Open Day aims to provide an opportunity...
THE cyber security awareness campaign for 2013 took off at the Pehin Datu Seri Maharaja Secondary School, Mentiri last week, according to the Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI).In a press statement...
FORTY-NINE young people from ASEAN were presented with certificates for participating in the First ASEAN Youth Entrepreneurship Seminar and Exposition (1st AYESE) yesterday at The Rizqun International Hotel in Gadong.Themed "ASEAN Youth...
Brunei's biggest transnational syndicate bustFORTY-ONE Brunei-registered vehicles valued at an estimated $2 million in total, have been returned to the Sultanate and await their respective owners to pick them up from the Royal Brunei Police...
FOUR people were apprehended for failing to produce valid immigration documents , the Law Enforcement Division of the Immigration and National Registration Department said in a press statement. Three men and one woman were detained for failing to...
VOLUNTEERISM not only benefits young people but it also contributes to the friendship, identity and the establishment of the ASEAN Community, said a senior official from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (MCYS) yesterday.Dato Paduka Hj Mohd...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
The Brunei Times newscast in Mandarin.
BRUNEI's updated Wildlife Protection Act is expected to be ready by the end of this year or early next year, the head of the months-old Wildlife Division told The Brunei Times yesterday.Alongside efforts to revise the 35 year-old Act —...
TWO men involved in a series of car thefts, the most serious being setting fire to the stolen cars, were sentenced to over five years' jail each yesterday after they pleaded guilty to their respective charges.Mohd Erwan Manggis, 30, was...
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