27 Sep 09 -
IN THE original French story, it is said that Cinderella's slippers were made of vaire, a kind of leather from a grey squirrel, but the similarity in sound to verre, or "glass" in English, resulted in a mistranslation. The...
27 Sep 09 -
MASHURI, 32, stood up from his plastic chair when a veiled woman came over to investigate fresh cow ribs hanging at his meat stall at Mayestik Market, in south Jakarta. When he told the woman the price of the ribs, she quickly inspected...
27 Sep 09 -
CHAM, 12, is from Cambodia. "If you promise to give me a place to stay, food to eat and opportunity to go to school, then I would gladly return home. "I do not want to live in hardship, life here is difficult but it is much...
26 Sep 09 -
AFTER launching in December 2005, Expansys Technologies initially began as content provider on the then newly launched B-Mobile 3G mobile network. Expansys has now expanded its scope of work to provide a variety of mobile communications...
26 Sep 09 -
IMAGINE if the next big thing to come out on the Internet was by a Bruneian company? This is precisely what companies such as Expansys are finding themselves targeting and spurring them on to success. For Expansys Managing Director...
26 Sep 09 -
ENTREPRENEURS in Brunei face an extremely hard time getting their businesses off the ground. Indeed, that's why the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) established the iCentre small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) incubation...
26 Sep 09 -
AFTER almost 20 years of school promotion in Sabah, the Danish-founded Borneo Child Aid Society (BCAS) is responsible for the primary education of more than 8,400 students, mostly children of the immigrant workers from Indonesia and the...
20 Sep 09 -
JON STEEL, planning chief in Sir Martin Sorrell's London-based advertising company WPP, is now living in the Australian city of Perth, half a world away from his boss and from his former office. "A lot of work I was doing within the...
20 Sep 09 -
THE house at No 55 Jalan Pucang Jajar in Surabaya is rather different to the others in the neighbourhood. It is marked not only by its size and superior design, but also by the earthenware pot, or kendi, that stands by the gate. On a hot...
19 Sep 09 -
WHILE other cartoonists are more interested in creating fictitious characters for their comic strips, Brunei cartoonist Malai Yunus Malai Yusof, 40, better known by his signature "Noh", aims to achieve a little more. Noh focuses...
