Kuala Belait, Malaysia

Kemuda Institute held its first Leadership Workshop yesterday, which was attended by more than 60 of its newly registered students.

Donations were handed over to a fire victim in Belait District during a ceremony at a hotel in Kuala Belait yesterday.

Khairul Nizam Othman yesterday took home a handsome cash prize of $20,000 after he was named as grand prize winner in the Nissan promotion, having purchased a Nissan Latio in early September.

One hundred and thirty PJN Pg Abu Bakar Religious School students yesterday attended a motivational talk to prepare them for the upcoming Primary Religious Certificate examination scheduled to begin on November 18.

The issue of visual impairment goes beyond health- it affects the livelihood of individuals and impinges on the welfare of communities.

Taps ran dry for residents in Kuala Belait and Panaga after an accidental damage to a main water pipe in Seria resulted in a leakage and subsequently disruption in water supply to homes for over an excruciating 24 hours starting late Monday afternoon.

Standard Chartered Bank will be holding its "Seeing is believing" fund-raising event on November 6 to raise community awareness on the importance of "taking the matter of eye health into their own hands", Andy Ang, SCE's Premium Banking General Manager, has announced.

The entire town of Kuala Belait, excluding Seria, was without mains water supply for more than 24 hours since Monday after the underground pipe supplying water to elevated reservoir towers in the area was damaged.

A blessing ceremony or doa selamat took place yesterday morning for 90 intending haj pilgrims in the Belait District who will head to the holy city of Mekah to be a part of the world's biggest annual religious gathering.

The Lion's Club ofBelait District yesterday afternoon hosted a fellowship lunch for over 81 members of various Lion's Club in Sabah who was passing by Kuala Belait in a rally expedition called the 'Lions Action in Rally' to Mid, Sarawak.

Tadika Alif School in Kuala Belait held a gathering yesterday to celebrate a reading programme with performances by participating students and to honour students' achievements and mark their advancement to Primary One.

Dear all, I write in to seek advise as my brother has become 'ANOTHER' victim who has been wrongfully terminated.

I would like to draw the attention of all the people and authorities especially the almighty Town & Country Planning dept of Belait District to the current some housing projects.

The Australian government has recorded an annual average of 700 Bruneians enrolments in Australian educational institutions.

As Part of the community service, a group of DST Group officials visited four centres for disabled children in the Belait District.

In conjunction with World Sight Day, which fell on October 8, Lions Club of Belait together with an optometrist from Visioncare, Kuala Belait, recently visited Chung Hwa Primary School in Labi and Chung Lian Primary School in Sungai Liang to perform vision screening on all their students.

BIBD At-Tamwil Berhad's Kuala Belait Branch, is organising today, a charity walkathon for the children of three special charities, Pusat Ehsan, KACA and Smarter Brunei in conjunction with the opening of its office in the oil district.

The Taipei Economic and Culture Office recently presented long service awards to I4 Chinese schoolteachers.

The Puak Community of Kuala Belait held a Hari Raya gathering yesterday at Awang Affendi bin Termidi's residence.

Residents living on the top floor of a row of shophouses in Kuala Belait narrowly escaped a fire that broke out early yesterday morning.