January 2005

NEWS ARCHIVE 2005

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Saturday, 15th January 2005

Man Buried alive In
Horrendous Landslide
In Muara

Bandar Seri Begawan – A male foreign national died yesterday when he was buried alive under a landslip at the Bukit Sebangin Indigenous Land Scheme Area in Jalan Muara yesterday. ...FULL STORY

Brunei’s Mercy Mission now
Fully Operational in aceh

Sabang Island Indonesia - Brunei's mercy mission to provide urgent and much needed relief to the tsunami victims of Indonesia became fully operational yesterday, hardly 24 hours after their arrival in Sabang on the island of Weh, where the scale of death and devastation appeared to be very high. ...FULL STORY

Imams Call Residents To Donate Generously
Bandar Seri Begawan - Members of the public were yesterday urged to continue making donations for the tsunami victims. ...FULL STORY

Brunei Awards Licence To Second Mobile Service Provider
Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei's mobile phone users will soon have another alternative with the awarding of the second mobile service licence to a local conglomerate and a government-based company. ...FULL STORY

WORLD REPORT SPECIAL

Bush under fire over human rights
Washington - America's human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for terrorists and set a bad example to regimes seeking to justify their own poor rights records.

SPORTS

Brunei Open Chess Championship Kicks Off
Bandar Seri Begawan - International Chess Master Vakhidor Tahir was in action at the First Brunei Open Chess Championship yesterday, at the Cesar Grand Ballroom of the Orchid Garden Hotel in Berakas.

YOUR HEALTH

Stop smoking: Kick the habit for a long and healthy life
Chicago - A key strategy for living a longer, healthier life comes as no surprise — don't smoke. If you're a smoker, you're simply more likely to die early. Smoking can take more than 10 years off of your life.

OTHER REPORTS

Robot to preserve ancient dance
Tokyo - Japanese researchers said they had turned a humanoid industrial machine into a master of Japanese traditional dance in a bid to use a robot as a guardian of cultural heritage.