09 MAY 2017: BRUNEI HALAL

Members were treated to a well-illustrated insight into the world of halal products and their production at the Rizqun hotel on 9 May by Dr Nur Rahman, CEO of Ghanim International Holdings which trades as “Brunei Halal”.  For those of us who have only the...

15 MARCH 2017: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The AGM took place on Wednesday 15 March at the Residence of HE Mr David Campbell, British High Commissioner to Brunei. Mr Campbell and his team also kindly provided us with dinner afterwards and the opportunity to spend the rest of the evening networking at leisure...

International English: Brunei’s Next Oil?

Did you know that global trade in education outranks that of trade in oil by a factor of almost 2? Our second Speaker Meeting of 2016 saw Dr Greg Keaney, Country Manager of the Centre for British Teachers (CfBT) in Brunei, give a highly informative and lively...

Interactive Talk (Global & Asian Economics)

Dr Roman Zytek, Chief Economist Monetary Policy and Investment at the AMBD, gave an informative and interactive talk on the general state of the global and ASEAN economies. Topics ranged from investments to inflation, energy to emerging markets and the demographic and...

AEC 2015

Dato Timothy Ong, Chairman of Asia Inc Forum, sharing his thoughts on AEC 2015 Lyndsay Rajah, chair of BBBF The Asean Economic Community (AEC) is an achievable vision but it won’t happen by 2015 according to Dato Timothy Ong, the Chairman of Asia Inc Forum, who was...