Borneo

If you are in Southeast Asia, then you should make a trip to the Borneo Island and go to Brunei, the Abode of Peace. With the South China Sea, bordering the place, the Sarawak State of Malaysia, surrounds it and the region of Limbang divides the place into two. This sovereign state on the Borneo Island is a part of Borneo and the remainder belongs to Indonesia and Malaysia. Origins tracing back to 7th century, Brunei was a subject state in the empire of Srivijayan and was known as the P’o-li...Read Full Story

While we await for the next match in the Brunei Rugby Senior League Tournament, we wish to bring to attention to some great news earlier this month. Brunei Darussalam National Olympic Council has recently inducted Brunei Rugby Football Union as its Ordinary Member, allowing Brunei to participate in the next Olympics in 2016 at Rio de Janeiro in its Rugby Sevens event, a big leap in ensuring the growth of Rugby here. Best of all, this brings further development for the Union to take steps to...Read Full Story

The first round of the Senior Rugby League Tournament has ended with the Bandar Blacks reigning the tournament. Remember that it has been awhile since the Blacks are on top, will this year be the return of the champions of 2008 and 2006? Old rivalries between the two champions of past SLRTs are now fuming! Ladies and Gentlemen, the tournament is not over yet! Second round of the tournament will commence in the 5th of May with the Bandar Blacks and the UBD Sharks playing again. Will this next...Read Full Story

An interesting turn of events and it looks like the league is about to get more exciting! Defending Champions Pythons now see a strong challenge in the Sharks, heating up the rivalry between the three teams. How will this tournament fare now that the Sharks have sprung back into action from their last match and the Pythons will now face the Bandar Blacks this week? We can only speculate that tactics and strategies are probably now being refined, reviewed, and modified because this year’s...Read Full Story

Today’s Brunei Times has coverage on the opening match of the Senior League Rugby Tournament. A fantastic match and performance I say! Hope the fans enjoyed the match and congratulations to the Blacks for their first win of the season! This Saturday will see a face-off between defending Champions, the KB Pythons, and tournament hopefuls UBD Sharks. We can only wish the Sharks to keep your heads up high and that both teams good luck for this coming game. News is that instead of the planned...Read Full Story

With all the pollution in this country, I wanted to know and make sure that I am far away from that part of the world.  But first I needed to know where they are.  Well, wahla here it is.Many countries in the world are now facing the pollution problems. Air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution and other pollution problems have made people from all over the world suffer from many diseases such as cholera, lung, skin diseases and so on. With industrialization, wars, overpopulation...Read Full Story

Borneo, Malaysia: August 2010   MOZZIE BYTE (Editor): A warm welcome back to all our Daily Explorer readers and greetings to those of you who are joining us for the first time. For new readers, Ray has been living nomadically for over four and a half years since he left England in November 2005 and has visited or lived in 16 countries. We have been publishing news and stories about his journey throughout that period. You can find all of these in our Previous Issues archive. Our aim at The...Read Full Story

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing to you all the new logo of Brunei Rugby Football Union. Here’s to a new era and development of Brunei Rugby. In comparison, the change is the introduction of a new symbol to represent the culture and society of Brunei: Bunga Simpur The Flower: a symbol for Unity The Leaves:  a symbol of Strive and Struggle Keris: a symbol of patriotism Red: a symbol of strength in brotherhood Black:  a symbol of calibre, progressive and dynamic White: a symbol of purity and...Read Full Story

Borneo, Malaysia: August 2010   MOZZIE BYTE (Editor): A warm welcome back to all our Daily Explorer readers and greetings to those of you who are joining us for the first time. For new readers, Ray has been living nomadically for over four and a half years since he left England in November 2005 and has visited or lived in 16 countries. We have been publishing news and stories about his journey throughout that period. You can find all of these in our Previous Issues archive. Our aim at The...Read Full Story

Brunei Map Regional PoliticalBrunei, clearly the Accompaniment of Brunei Darussalam or the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (Malay: Negara Brunei Darussalam,is a absolute accompaniment amid on the arctic bank of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Apart from its bank with the South China Sea, it is absolutely amidst by the accompaniment of Sarawak, Malaysia, and in actuality it is afar into two genitalia by Limbang, which is allotment of Sarawak. It is the alone absolute...Read Full Story