Thursday 18th March, 2010
Security Guard Faces Sentence For Sex With Underage Girl
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - A security guard yesterday pleaded guilty to having consensual sexual intercourse with a 14-yearold girl. However, he told the Magistrates Court that he was unaware of the girl'...
St Andrew's Holds Cross Country Run
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - St. Andrew's School recently held its annual Cross Country Run at Bukit Shahbandar Recreation Park, Jerudong with four teams namely Cornwall House, Danson, Hollis and Macdougall ...
Tumpuan Telisai Primary School Celebrates Maulud Nabi
Bru DirectTutong - Tumpuan Telisai Primary School in Tutong District celebrated Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) birthday at the school's multi-purpose hall. The event was one of the school's annual religious activit...
Three Young Men Found Guilty Of Conducting Spate Of Auto Thefts
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - Three men charged with stealing three cars were found guilty by the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Mohamad Sufian Mohamed, 27, and Mohamad Erawandy Mat Nor, 22, were each found g...
Bruneian Students In Egypt Perform Hadrah In Cultural Festival
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - The October 6 University (06U), located in 6 October City, Cairo recently marked the 7th Cultural Festival. The festival was participated by 45 countries such as Russia, USA, Ch...
Circus Firemen Coming To Town
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - The Jerudong Park Playground Mini Amphitheatre will be the venue for one of the most hilarious and skilled acrobatics acts currently performing in the Asia Pacific region - the C...
Ubd Launches Ip Policy And New Office
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) marked an important legal milestone with the implementation of the long-awaited Intellectual Property (IP) Policy which will come with the sett...
Less Reliance On Labour In Construction
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - The Ministry of Development is considering a shift from conventional methods of construction that heavily depends on labour force to the use of modem construction methodologies, ...
Independent Patent System To Be Introduced: Ag
Bru DirectBandar Seri Begawan - Local inventors and innovators would be able to create, develop and commercialise new technologies and innovations to their advantage, when an independent patent system will be i...
Texas Manager Tested Positive For Cocaine In 2009
Bru Direct, who turned down the manager's offer to resign. "I made a huge mistake and it almost caused me to lose everything I have worked for all of my life," Washington said at a news conference Wednesday. "...
Uaw Votes On Agreement To Shut Down Calif. Plant
Bru DirectFREMONT, Calif. – For 25 years, Juan Carrera has worked at a sprawling auto plant on the edge of Silicon Valley helping produce Toyota cars and trucks. His son works there too. So does his son-i...
Convicted Embezzler Given Tax Break, Then Arrested
Bru Direct, Corrections Department spokesman Russ Marlan said. Authorities say they arrested Short after realizing the company CEO he may have violated his parole by not informing the Corrections Department he...
Group Decries Textbooks On Islam As Inflammatory
Bru DirectPHILADELPHIA – A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and deservi...
Prescription-drug Heists On The Rise
Bru Directfor resale on the black market. Pharmaceutical heists in the U.S. have quadrupled since 2006, a coalition of industry and law enforcement estimates. And experts say the reasons include spotty securit...
Report Questions Excluding Gays From Some Studies
Bru DirectA small but significant portion of medical studies exclude gays from participating, sometimes without an apparent scientific reason, several cancer researchers say. In a letter in
Marathon Oil Ceo's 2009 Pay Falls 21 Pct
Bru Direct., 59, received a base salary of $1.4 million, a bonus of $2.1 million, other compensation of $225,403 and stock and option awards the company valued at $2,845,791 on the day they were granted. By th...
More Pet Owners Report Injuries From Skin Products
Bru Directsaid Wednesday as it outlined plans to make the products safer. The EPA said it will develop stricter testing and evaluation requirements for flea and tick treatments that are applied to a pet's skin...
Sexual Desire, Satisfaction Don't Diminish During Pregnancy
Bru Directprogresses, they don't enjoy the experience any less, new research shows. "We've studied men's sexual health for many years, and we have not studied women's sexual health, co...
Fed Boss Makes Case To Keep All Banking Duties
Bru DirectFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress Wednesday to let the Fed keep all of its banking oversight, arguing that information gleaned from that process helps the central bank guide the eco...
Europe Shames Its Major Powers Over Debts
Bru Direct, amid frenzied if unofficial general election campaigning. Germany, accused of having a budget strategy that was "not sufficient to bring the debt ratio back on a downward path," had ear...
Kids, Teens Key To Flood Fighting Effort In Fargo
Bru DirectFARGO, N.D. – Some children lugged sandbags that weighed more than they did. Determined teens showed up just after dawn with groups of friends, ready and willing to shovel. New groups of kids ar...
Recent Cases Show Challenge Of Us Terrorists
Bru Direct. Others, like the accused Pennsylvania woman, allegedly wanted to avenge what they considered an insult to the Prophet Mohammed. Many traveled overseas to get terrorist training. Some used home compu...
Male Pregnancy And Abortion: The Sex Life Of Pipefish
Bru DirectPARIS (AFP) – A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species is the one which gets pregnant. The fish is a close cousin of the...
Ford Motor Co. Shares Hit Five-year High
Bru Direct. surged to a five-year high Wednesday after a ratings agency upgraded the automaker's debt and said Ford has the potential to improve its finances even further. The Dearborn, Mich., automaker's stoc...
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