20th February 2015
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
On a Monday morning in February in Buckinghamshire, His Majesty The Sultan of Brunei travelled by vintage Rolls Royce to Chequers, the Prime Minister’s official country residence, to be greeted by The Rt Hon David Cameron MP. His Majesty and the Prime Minister were meeting to renew a longstanding agreement to station UK troops at […]
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1st December 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
There are strong links between Scotland and Brunei, and as we celebrate Scotland’s national day over the weekend, anyone passing the British High Commission will notice a subtle change In addition to the red, white and blue of the Union Flag, there is a simple blue field with a bold white cross running from its […]
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29th October 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Siti Nurfateha, better known as Teah, is the recipient of the 2014/15 Chevening Scholarship in Brunei. She is currently studying a Masters in Anthropology in Development and Rights at Goldsmiths, University of London. Read her guest blog about her time so far in London as a Chevening Scholar & why you should also take this opportunity to apply […]
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1st October 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
One of the events I always look forward to is our farewell reception to wish good luck to our latest Chevening scholar as he or she sets off for the UK to begin their studies. The Chevening scheme is the UK Government’s flagship scholarship programme. It aims to provide postgraduate students and young professionals, identified […]
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29th August 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Our guest blogger this week is Izzah Jomari from the Brunei Economic Dvelopment Board who was nominated for the 33Fifty programme. Read her blog about her unique Commonwealth youth leaders experience. As part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy, a leadership programme was organized for Commonwealth youth leaders aged between 18 to 25. The programme was […]
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15th August 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
The British High Commission had an exhibition stand at the National Environment Conference on 13 August organised by Asia Inc Forum. The theme of our stand was from global to national to local action. To highlight the negative impact that unchecked climate change will have on the world, we displayed the Human Dynamics of Climate […]
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5th August 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Our guest blogger for this week is Khairunnisa Ash’ari who is the Community Engagement Director for Green Brunei. With the support of the British High Commission, Khairunnisa attended the Singapore Power Shift, a kickstarter workshop to build up climate change knowledge and learn how to run successful campaigns. “The biggest threat to climate change is inaction.” […]
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20th June 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Last week saw an extraordinary international conference in London. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie co-hosted the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. This brought together 128 country delegations and over 80 ministers. Minister of Foreign Affairs II Pehin Lim led the Brunei delegation. There were around 1,700 […]
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8th May 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Guest Blogger today is Rizan Latif, the leader of Beach Bunch, an environmental NGO. Here is what he has to say about the latest findings. Recreation, when properly planned and managed, can minimise impacts on coastal environments and serve as a driving force in bringing sustainable tourism as a vehicle of development to local communities […]
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6th May 2014
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Today, we have a guest blogger, Hj Aminuddin Hj Md Taib, who has just attended the ASEAN Public-Private-Partnership Study Visit in the UK arranged by our regional FCO Economic and Trade Policy Network. Read on to find out what he has to say about his visit. Back to UK, back home to London. I was […]
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