4 Nov 09 -
CLIMATE change is being played like a zero-sum game between the developed countries on one side and the developing nations on the other where presumably the sum of the so-called winnings and losses of the players is always zero and cancel...
16 Feb 08 -
THE BRUNEI TIMES report "Minister: Realistic fuel pump price needed (January 9, 2008) has generated public debate and concern to the extent that it has elicited an apparent cross-purpose with the official economic domain with the...
12 Mar 10 -
THE reported death of a suspected Bali bombing mastermind, in a raid this week, is a significant achievement of the Indonesian authorities in their ongoing campaign against militancy across the archipelago. Dulmatin, a suspected mastermind...
11 Mar 10 -
THIS week India took a historic step towards empowering women by introducing a bill in the national parliament that stipulates reserving a third or 33 per cent of seats in national and legislative assemblies across the country for women. ...
10 Mar 10 -
AFTER a hiatus of more than a year, the Mideast peace talks are about to restart — albeit without any eyeball contact — in a testimony to the hardy doggedness of US Special Middle East envoy George Mitchell's 14-month-long shuttle...
9 Mar 10 -
NOTHING is impossible. Perhaps it's not as worn-out a phrase as we may think it is when we apply it to the Sultanate's drive to achieve self-sufficiency in rice. When we know full well that we have the resources to make it and do our best...
8 Mar 10 -
THE West has a habit of pointing fingers generally at the East and the South over alleged human rights violations especially among many former communist as well as Third World nations. In the case of the US, there is a section within the...
5 Mar 10 -
THE resumption of talks between the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will bring a sigh of relief to the people of conflict-hit southern Philippines as the prospects for peace and progress in the area are now...
4 Mar 10 -
THE master of disguise is turning out to be a master of lies. War criminal and former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic while opening his defence at the United Nations tribunal in The Hague claimed that the Serbs were fighting a "just"...
3 Mar 10 -
THE climate change clock is ticking away relentlessly but the momentum built up over the past year seems to be fizzling out. It appears to be back to business as usual for most of the world leaders as climate change is put on the back...
