|      Hakim Hayat      | HIS Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in a titah expressed confidence that bilateral ties between Brunei and Bangladesh will continue to prosper through mutual cooperation in various fields. The monarch made the […]

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Tensions escalated yesterday after talks broke down between Sudanese protesters and the country’s military rulers amid indications the army could move in to break up the demonstration in the capital, Khartoum. The protesters, who have been rallying outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, have demanded a swift handover of power to […]

KIEV (AFP) – A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, drawing congratulations from global leaders while dealing a stunning rebuke to his country’s political establishment. Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president in a TV show, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko by taking 73.2 per […]

|    Bahyiah Bakir    | HIS Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office as personal representative of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, welcomed Prime Minister of the […]

RIVERSIDE, California (AP) – The eldest son and daughter of a couple who starved and shackled 12 of their children spoke publicly for the first time last Friday, alternately condemning and forgiving their parents before a judge sentenced the pair to up to life in prison. More details in Monday’s Borneo Bulletin.

The Ministry of Health (MoH), in collaboration with the Mukim Bangar Consultative Council, organised the ‘Healthy Mukim Programme’ for Mukim Bangar, Temburong, in line with World Physical Activity Day 2019, at the Bumiputera Main Complex, Pekan Bangar on Sunday. More details in Monday’s Borneo Bulletin.

THE 24th Baiduri Masters charity golf tournament concluded with a prize presentation dinner at the Hua Ho Manggis Ballroom, Hua Ho Manggis attended by Chairman of Baiduri Bank Yang Amat Mulia Pengiran Muda Dr Abdul Fattaah. More details in Monday’s Borneo Bulletin.  

|     Fadley Faisal     | A LOCAL man was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment and a lifetime disqualification from holding or obtaining a licence to drive any motor vehicle in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Nur Adi Husseini bin Jufeeri, 26, was convicted after trial of an offence of causing death by dangerous driving under Section 27 […]

TOKYO (AFP) – A blind Japanese sailor completed his non-stop Pacific voyage yesterday, local media reported, becoming the first sightless person on record to navigate a vessel across the vast ocean. Mitsuhiro Iwamoto arrived at port in Fukushima in his 12-metre sailboat yesterday morning, around two months after he left California. Iwamoto, a 52-year-old San […]

PLANS to revive the Excellent Village Award (AKC) for localities nationwide are in the works, and are expected to be launched next year, Minister of Home Affairs Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong said on Saturday. More details in Sunday’s Borneo Bulletin.

HER Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah binti Pengiran Haji Salleh Ab Rahaman on Saturday attended to watch Yang Teramat Mulia Pengiran Muda ‘Abdul Muntaqim ibni Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah and Yang Teramat Mulia Pengiran Anak Muneerah Madhul Bolkiah binti Duli […]

His Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office attended the AIA Singapore Premier League home match of DPMM FC against Warriors FC at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince ‘Abdul Malik […]

TOKYO (AP) — A car driven by an 87-year-old man smashed into pedestrians at a Tokyo intersection yesterday, killing a woman and a girl on a bicycle and overturning a garbage truck, Japanese police said. Eight people were reportedly injured. The Metropolitan Police Department said the woman and child were pronounced dead at a hospital. […]

TOKYO (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is cautiously turning up the heat after his unsuccessful summit with United States (US) President Trump in Hanoi two months ago. Returning to military optics for the first time in five months, Kim on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to an Air Force base to inspect fighter […]

LONDON (AFP) – A journalist was shot dead during riots in Northern Ireland in what police yesterday were treating as a terrorist incident following the latest upsurge in violence to shake the troubled region. “Lyra McKee was murdered during orchestrated violence in Creggan last night,” Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said in a statement. McKee […]

BRUNEI Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd (BSP) held a 90 Times Khatam Al-Quran ceremony at Pusat Insani in Seria to mark its 90th anniversary. Over 140 participants made up of BSP officials participated. More details in Weekend’s Borneo Bulletin­­

MORE than 40 students and lecturers from Kolej International Graduate Studies (KIGS) participated in a workshop organised and conducted by Strayholders on Thursday. Held at the Business Marketing and Communication Centre at KIGS in Kiulap, the workshop aimed to raise awareness on the situation of stray animals in Brunei and at the same time provide […]

HAJI Muhammad Fikri bin Haji Awang Metussin was third placed in the 10th Kuwait International Prize for Memorising, Recitation and Tajweed of the Al-Quran for the year 1440 Hijrah/2019 in Kuwait held from April 9-17. He was welcomed on arrival in Brunei yesterday to the recitation of Dikir Marhaban and Hadrah. More details in Weekend’s […]

|     Hakim Hayat    | BRUNEI Darussalam and Bangladesh hope to further boost bilateral trade and commerce through the signing of different Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) in different areas of potential growth and collaboration, as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives here for a three-day official visit on Sunday. In the run up to the Prime Minister’s […]

|    Bahyiah Bakir    | HIS Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah received the newly appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Brunei Darussalam Emad bin Abdul Aziz bin Saad Al Muhanna yesterday afternoon. In a separate audience His Royal Highness also received the outgoing Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Brunei Darussalam Vladlen Stanislavovich Semivolos. […]

|    James Kon    | HIS Royal Highness Prince (Dr) Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office graced the Crown Prince CIPTA Award 2019 ceremony at the Serambi Suluh Hall of Tarindak D’Seni yesterday morning. His Royal Highness also presented […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian suspected in a drive-by shooting against Israelis in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces bulldozed the home of Saleh Barghouti in the West Bank village of Kobar early yesterday. Barghouti was killed in a raid earlier this year as part of […]

BENI, Congo (AP) — Congo’s President said on Tuesday that he wants an Ebola virus outbreak that already has become the country’s second-deadliest contained in less than three months, although some health experts estimate it could take twice as long. President Felix Tshisekedi set the timeline while visiting eastern Congo, the centre of an Ebola […]

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Former Peru president Alan Garcia died in hospital yesterday after shooting himself in the head at his home as police were about to arrest him in a graft investigation, a party official said. “Alan Garcia has died, long live Apra,” said Omar Quesada, the general secretary of Garcia’s American Popular Revolutionary […]

BRUNEI Toastmasters duo Dr Sophiana Chua Abdullah and Sarah Oleyami emerged champion of the International Speech Contest and first runner-up for Table Topics Speech Contest at the 9th Toastmasters District 87 Annual Conference held in Medan, Indonesia recently. The duo from Brunei reached the championship level after several eliminating rounds that began in January 2019. […]

UNIVERSITI Brunei Darussalam’s (UBD) Guild of Graduates yesterday hosted the ‘Let’s Talk’ session to promote positive engagement on professional development between undergraduates and young, prominent change makers. More details in Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin

HIS Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office, who is also the Chairman of DPMM FC, yesterday joined the DPMM FC squad as well as members of club management and the backroom staff for an official […]

CAIRO (AP) – Sudanese protesters on Monday welcomed the “positive steps” taken by the ruling military council, which held talks with opposition leaders over the weekend and released some political prisoners. The praise came despite a brief incident earlier on Monday in which activists said soldiers attempted to disperse the ongoing protest sit-in outside the […]

PARIS (AP) – Firefighters declared success yesterday in a more than 12-hour battle to extinguish an inferno engulfing Paris’ iconic Notre-Dame cathedral that claimed its spire and roof, but spared its bell towers. What remained was a blackened shell of the monument immortalised in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, a building that […]

YAYASAN Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah has reduced the quantity of dates it has purchased for Ramadhan this year, after discovering that the total number of Muslims the dates were distributed to during the holy month last year is far higher than the recipient list figure provided by the Department of Economic Planning and Development (JPKE) […]

HIS Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah ibni His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday received in audience newly appointed Brunei Darussalam envoys, newly appointed foreign envoys to Brunei Darussalam and an outgoing foreign envoy to Brunei Darussalam in separate audiences. More […]

His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam received a courtesy visit from Member of Parliament of the House of Representatives (Port Dickson Parliamentary Constituency) and the President of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Malaysia Yang Berhormat Dato’ Seri […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrat representative for Minnesota Ilhan Omar said she’s faced increased death threats since United States (US) President Donald Trump spread around a video that purports to show her being dismissive of the 2001 terrorist attacks. “This is endangering lives,” she said, accusing Trump of fomenting right-wing extremism. “It has to stop.” Her […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – During a visit to Addis Ababa, Ivanka Trump has honoured victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash that occurred soon after takeoff last month. The President’s daughter and senior adviser visited Holy Trinity Cathedral yesterday, where she met with religious leaders and laid a wreath to mourn the dead. A total […]

CAIRO (AP) – Sudan’s new ruling military council announced last Sunday that it will name a civilian Prime Minister and Cabinet but not a president to help govern the country following the coup that removed longtime leader Omar al-Bashir. An army spokesman, Lieutenant General Shamseldin Kibashi, also said in televised remarks that the military had […]