Bright Ideas On Doing Business
By James Kon

Bandar Seri Begawan - Twenty-three enterprising individuals including 14 students from Sekolah Tinggi Perempuan Raja Isteri attended the two-day LiveWIRE Brunei's Bright Ideas workshop, which came to an end yesterday afternoon at the PGGMB building.

Two prominent facilitators, Pengiran Redzuan Pg Haji Abbas, LiveWIRE Programme Director and Mr Steven Song, LiveWIRE Business Counsellor, were on hand to enlighten the participants with valuable knowledge on evaluating business ideas, proper processes of starting a business, financial intelligence and other relevant topics associated with good business sense.

One of the participants, 18-year-old Hajah Izwaliani Haji Zulkarnain from STPRI, would like to take over her family restaurant in the future.

According to Hajah Izwaliani the workshop was very effective in keeping people abreast of the proper way of setting up a business. She added that the workshop also gave her a lot of contacts among$he participants.

The lower six student also found the workshop to be a .good exposure for Bruneian youths.

Through the workshop, LiveWIRE Brunei aims at increasing the awareness of young people about the world of business, to promote starting up and running of business as a viable career option as well as to recognise and reward successful young entrepreneurs and to create the "seeds" of future entrepreneurs.

The next event to be organised by the Live WIRE Brunei will be the half-day dialogue session with past participants of LiveWIRE workshop and enterprising individuals.

The event is scheduled to take place on September 27, 2005 from 2 to 5pm.

Past participants of LiveWIRE workshop and enterprising individuals are welcome to attend. For further information, interested public can contact Live WIRE Brunei at 2220964 or 2220962. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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