April 2003

NEWS ARCHIVE 2003

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Tuesday, 1st April 2003

His Majesty's Double
Visit Takes All By Surprise

His Majesty during talks to a student

Bandar Seri Begawan - His Majesty dropped by a school where his son is studying causing a surprise to all. ...FULL STORY

Brunei And Thailand Cement
Closer Ties As Foreign
Ministers Meet

HRH Prince Mohamed Bolkiah with Thai Prime Minister
Lt. Col. Dr. Thaksin Shinnawtra

Bangkok - Brunei Foreign Affairs Minister His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah met with his Thai counterpart Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai for the first meeting of the Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation between Brunei and Thailand yesterday. ...FULL STORY

Dato Hazair Confirmed
As RBA Chairman

Dato Haji Hazair

Bandar Seri Begawan - Dato Paduka Awang Haji Hazair bin bin Haji Abdullah has been confirmed as Royal Brunei Airlines Chairman.
...FULL STORY

Public Calls For Quarantine
To Contain SARS

Foreign domestic helpers wear masks to protect themselves
from a mystery pneumonia virus in Hong Kong

Bandar Seri Begawan - The world is now being gripped by the fear of the deadly mystery flu, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) with the local population suggesting for visitors and returning locals from the affected countries to be quarantined. ...FULL STORY

WORLD REPORT SPECIAL

Under fire: the architects of war
Washington - Tony Blair suffered a backlash from senior Labour MPs over the war in Iraq yesterday when a former minister warned that the conflict could turn into another Vietnam.

OTHER REPORTS

Egypt finds oldest mummies
Sakkara - Egyptian archaeologists have opened a 5,000-year-old wooden coffin in Cairo to find a pile of bones which they say shows the oldest evidence yet found of human mummification in Egypt.