Editorial

American investor-philanthropist Warren Buffet is quoted to have said, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it." In the digital age, it takes less than five seconds to ruin a reputation. The gravepine reaches far and wide on ...

News Article - 02/09/2010 - 12:00am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas are about to relaunch direct peace talks tomorrow, but their cheerless faces at press meetings speak of anything but boundless optimism. Will the United States engineered-meeting ...

News Article - 01/09/2010 - 12:00am

Things are beginning to look better for the nation's tourism and retail sectors with recent developments pertaining to the "open door" policy in the aviation market. The most recent of which is the entry of Manila-based Cebu Pacific Air which is now flying ...

News Article - 31/08/2010 - 12:00am

The brazen Taliban attack on the US-run Forward Operating Bases (FOB) Salerno and Chapman on Saturday has confirmed the apprehension expressed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a US military commander that President Barack Obama's July 2011 date to ...

News Article - 30/08/2010 - 12:00am

Count on today's youth to carry the torch of sustainable development in Brunei Darussalam. That is, if we are to rely on survey results. Recently released results of the second survey on the Bandar Seri Begawan Development Masterplan showed a growing ...

News Article - 26/08/2010 - 12:00am

Pakistan is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis and economic catastrophe in its chequered history. The massive floods which have wiped out agricultural lands and destroyed roads and other infrastructure in this impoverished South Asian nation have also ...

News Article - 25/08/2010 - 12:00am

In the morning of August 21, 1969, a man set fire to the southern wing of Masjid al-Aqsa. The area, venerated by and known to Muslims as Haram as-Syarif or Noble Sanctuary, is the site that Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam visited on his night ...

News Article - 24/08/2010 - 12:00am

The people have spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they have said, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard told supporters on Saturday night as it became clear that her Labour Party has failed to get an absolute ...

News Article - 23/08/2010 - 12:00am

The United States had Ronald Reagan, the Philippines had Joseph Estrada. Will another famous artiste become the head of a nation as the year reaches its end? Criticised for his lack of political experience, among other things, famous Haitian American ...

News Article - 19/08/2010 - 12:00am

Even though former Australian premier Kevin Rudd is back in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's camp, it would appear that the Government is entering the last two weeks of the campaign still as the underdog but with its chances increasing by the day. In ...

News Article - 18/08/2010 - 12:00am

US president Barack Obama is not new to smear campaign. During his presidential election campaign he faced worst kind of smear campaign due to the colour of his skin and faith of his father. Time and again the American people were told that this man cannot ...

News Article - 17/08/2010 - 12:00am

The decision by Myanmar military junta to hold parliamentary elections on November 7, about a week before the release of pro-democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest on November 13 has brought more criticism and ...

News Article - 16/08/2010 - 12:00am

THE Ministry of Health initiative to launch healthy menus and food at eating outlets must be lauded. Unhealthy eating as well as overeating is as harmful as smoking as it could lead to all kinds of ailments that will reduce the quality of life and possibly ...

News Article - 12/08/2010 - 12:00am

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appealed to the international community for more help, saying that his government just couldn't cope with the devastating floods that has killed at least 1,600 people and destroyed 360,000 houses, leaving two ...

News Article - 11/08/2010 - 12:00am

Giving equal opportunity to women in various fields is an imperative that will always remain critical for any society to harness the potential of all individuals capable of contributing to nation-building. It is a real issue and not a buzzword. Here in ...

News Article - 10/08/2010 - 12:00am

The nature is wreaking havoc around the world. Pakistan has been ravaged by worst floods in 80 years that have killed more than 1,600 people and according to UN estimates more than 14 million have been affected. Deluge has also resulted in heavy loss of ...

News Article - 09/08/2010 - 12:00am

The landmark global treaty banning cluster bombs came into force on August 1 after being adopted by 108 states, of which 38 have ratified it. The Convention on Cluster Munitions bans the stockpiling, use and transfer of virtually all existing cluster ...

News Article - 05/08/2010 - 12:00am

There is only one way for Brunei Darussalam to rid itself of the plastic bag menace the authorities, whether it is the municipal council or the environment authorities, must take the lead. Only they can lay down the rules such as requiring supermarkets ...

News Article - 04/08/2010 - 12:00am

It makes so much more sense now that the East Asean Growth Area (Bimp-Eaga) has opted to adjust its aviation liberalisation scheme and hitch it on the bigger open-skies plans of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). It shows the Eaga ...

News Article - 03/08/2010 - 12:00am

This is World Breastfeeding Week (August 1 - 7) and in Brunei Darussalam it was launched last Saturday by Health Minister Pehin Orang Kaya Johan Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Hj Adanan at the Health Promotion Centre. It was noted at the launch that children ...

News Article - 02/08/2010 - 12:00am

Reports of a Nato rocket attack on a village in the Sangin area of Helmand province, reportedly killing about 40 civilians last Friday and the deadly roadside bombing in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday in which 25 civilians died show state of affairs ...

News Article - 29/07/2010 - 12:00am

The other shoe has finally dropped; but is anyone surprised? Yesterday, embattled oil company British Petroleum (BP) announced that its heavily criticised Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward will be giving up the top post effective October 1 this ...

News Article - 28/07/2010 - 12:00am

News of the volunteer group Beach Bunch's objective to make Brunei beaches the first to get the Blue Flag in Asia is a sign that volunteerism is alive in the Sultanate. They are indeed a bunch of people with a worthy cause and they deserve to be emulated. ...

News Article - 27/07/2010 - 12:00am

Coral reefs are the breeding ground of most tropical fish and they also function like the rainforests on land. If coral reefs were depleted many of the fish that we have on our menu would eventually cease to exist. Already climate change and rising ...

News Article - 26/07/2010 - 12:00am

The much-touted one-day international conference which concluded in Kabul on Wednesday may have given Afghan President Hamid Karzai the opportunity to steal the limelight but the ambitious goal of handing over security in all 34 provinces of Afghanistan to ...

News Article - 22/07/2010 - 12:00am