'Write Based On True Facts,' Writers Told

Bandar Seri Begawan - Writers were urged to write based on true facts and not on ambiguous resources and hearsay.

Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office said this at the opening of the General Writing Workshop for Press and Magazine at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam yesterday.

He said that Brunei like any other nations has its own press laws and regulations and monitors printing affairs and the use of internet.

The Permanent Secretary said, that this country has two laws that have been enacted: the Local Newspaper Act and the Broadcasting Act.

The Local Newspaper Act, he said, controls the registration of local newspaper. "It also controls the print, publishing and the production of all local newspapers, including magazines that require permit before it is to be published or to be sold in the sultanate."

Pengiran Hj Abdul Hamid also touched on the Broadcasting Act, which was promulgated in 1997 and must be given attention by writers. The act controls the operation and registration of broadcasting service and equipment as well as any other matters that relevant to it.

"The act is comprehensive and encompasses all broadcasting affairs where such convergence, technology in broadcasting media such as the television, internet, radio, mobile, telephone and the technology of global positioning relocation system, G-P-R-S as well as signboards that become sophisticated lately," he explained.

More than 40 participants comprising of government staffs, students of Universiti Brunei Darussalam and individuals are taking part in the two-day workshop.

The objective of the workshop is to upgrade the quality of professionalism among participants.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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