Brunei Starts Second Dose COVID-19 Vaccination For Youngsters
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Dec 7 (NNN-ANN) – Brunei began the administration of second dose of COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents aged 12 to 17 yesterday.According to the Minister of Health, Haji Mohd Isham, the youngsters should have no quarantine orders or s...
National Vaccination Programme for COVID-19, 5 Directive Violations Issued With Compound Fines
The Minister of Health also shared 83.2 percent of the total population have completed the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, 94.1 percent of the total population have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.The vaccination coverage among ...
New Cases, 2 New Clusters Detected, 95 Cases Recovered
27 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the country yesterday, bringing the total COVID-19 cases to 15,229. Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Setia Doctor Haji Awang Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar, Minister of Health stated the matter at a media conference on the l...
Only 3 ASEAN states at US Democracy Summit? Not bad, say analysts
Even as the United States makes Southeast Asia a diplomatic priority, it has invited just three ASEAN members to this week’s democracy summit, but analysts in the region said Tuesday that Washington’s strategy in doing so was largely sound.Indonesia, M...
Adopting 55 First Committee Texts, General Assembly Addresses Myriad Security Threats, Urging Joint Action...
Resolutions on Culture of Peace, Cultural Property Also AdoptedStressing the enduring and pronounced threat posed by nuclear weapons, the General Assembly, acting on the recommendation of its First Committee (Disarmament and International Security), ad...
Myanmar junta FM meets Cambodian PM Hun Sen ahead of ASEAN chairmanship
The foreign minister representing Myanmar’s junta met with soon-to-be Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair and prime minister of Cambodia Hun Sen on Tuesday, as observers warned that failure to hold the military regime to account for it...
China conducts live-fire bombing drills in South China Sea
The Chinese military has deployed some of its most advanced strategic bombers in a live-fire exercise in the South China Sea as an apparent message of deterrence to Taiwan and its allies.Several H-6J bombers, the latest type of bomber to enter service ...
Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with the ASEAN Committee Washington
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman met today with the 10 ambassadors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss the U.S.-ASEAN strategic partnership and affirm the United States’ commitment to ASEAN centrality.Deputy Sec...
Tropical Rainforests Research
Brunei Darussalam is still covered with more than 70 percent lush-green forests. The unique feature of the country's tropical rainforests has attracted the interest of a U.S. Fullbright Scholar to conduct research on the role of various large tree spec...
6th SOMRI WG-IMT
Ongoing projects and activities in the information and media sector such as the Promotion of Media and Information Literacy Project, Study on the Information and Media Landscape of ASEAN and the ASEAN Task Force on Fake News were discussed during the S...
International Civil Aviation Day 2021
Brunei Darussalam, as a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO is committed in ensuring the safety and security of international air transport. In this regard, the ICAO's Council Aviation Recovery Taskforce or CART has issued the...
Doa Kesyukuran in Conjunction with International Civil Aviation Day
In conjunction with the International Civil Aviation Day Celebration, the Department of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications, yesterday afternoon held a Doa Kesyukuran Ceremony and Reading of Surah Yassin virtually.Joining in th...