January 2005

NEWS ARCHIVE 2004

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Monday, 3rd January 2005

Foreign Workers
Rounded Up At Muara
Bus Station

Police checking the validity of foreign workers'
documents during the operation

Bandar Seri Begawan - Sixty foreign workers were brought to the Muara Police Station for further investigations as they failed to show valid travel documents following a police inspection and roadblock operation conducted by the Muara Police District yesterday morning. ...FULL STORY

Brunei’s Unemployed Could
Bring Future Problems
Says Minister

Pehin Dato Awang Haji Suyoi Bin Haji Osman,
the Deputy Minister of Education

Bandar Seri Begawan - Based on the latest statistics, there is less than 80,000 domestic workforce in Brunei, at the very same time, there are 8,000 people who are within the working age group who are jobless, reports Radio Television Brunei (RTB). ...FULL STORY

The deputy president of PPPMB, Pg Shahminan bin Pg Hj Ismail

Call For Progressive Private Sector Lauded
Bandar Seri Begawan - Local entrepreneurs praised and expressed their gratitude to His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam for the New Year Titah in which His Majesty called for undivided efforts for a progressive private sector. ...FULL STORY

Datalish To Send Volunteers To Aceh
Bandar Seri Begawan - Datalish Adventure will be sending three volunteers to the Aceh province to help stranded survivors of last Sunday's massive earthquake and the tsunami that followed.
...FULL STORY

WORLD REPORT SPECIAL

Flash floods in Sri Lanka force evacuations
Sri Lanka - Flash floods prompted evacuations and hampered relief work in eastern Sri Lanka on Saturday

SPORTS

JPCC Golf Champion
Bandar Seri Begawan - The Jerudong Park Country Club yesterday held the "Hari Raya and New Year Golf Tournament" at the Royal Brunei Golf and Country Club where about 60 of its club members participated.

YOUR HEALTH

U.N. official: Suffering from disease may 'dwarf' terror of tsunamis
Switzerland - The United Nations warned Wednesday that respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asia's tsunami disaster "in the next few days.

OTHER REPORTS

A boy named Tsunami
India - Six-day-old Tsunami Roy doesn't know what all the fuss about him is, as he hungrily suckles at his mother's breast before dropping off for a contented nap.