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THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, SABAH AND SARAWAK Vol. 24 B$1.00 / RM3.50
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Monday July 15, 2019 No. 013
16 18 | BUSINESS
24 39 | WORLD NEWS
85 88 | SPORTS
Imsak 4.41am Subuh 4.51am Syuruk 6.15am Doha 6.39am Zohor 12.27pm Asar 3.52pm Maghrib 6.38pm Isyak 7.52pm
28 | WORLD NEWS
Sudan Activists
Call For ‘Justice’
For Killed Protesters
10 | HOMEPAGE
Minister Joins First
Harvest Of Youth
Paddy Project Site
20 | ENTERPRISE
FTC Fine Doesn’t
Spell Closure
For Facebook
22 | REGIONAL
Poverty Situation
In Kelantan
Needs Attention
Today’s 144-page edition
of the Borneo Bulletin
includes the 56-page
73rd Royal Birthday
Supplement and comes
with a special wrap
| AZIZ I DRIS |
HIS Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal
Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni
Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali
Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien,
Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei
Darussalam joined hundreds of
congregants at the Jame’ ‘Asr Hassanil
Bolkiah in a Doa Kesyukuran ceremony
to mark His Majesty’s 73rd birthday
celebration yesterday.
Accompanying His Majesty were
His Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-
Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and
Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s
Office; His Royal Highness Prince Haji
‘Abdul ‘Azim; His Royal Highness Prince
‘Abdul Malik; His Royal Highness Prince
‘Abdul Mateen; His Royal Highness
Prince ‘Abdul Wakeel; and His Royal
Highness Prince Haji Jefri Bolkiah.
On hand to welcome the royal
entourage were Chief of Adat
Istiadat Negara and Advisor of His
Majesty’s 73rd Birthday Celebration
Prayers mark His Majesty’s
73rd birthday celebration
LONDON (AFP) - Britain’s
ambassador to Washington
believed United States (US)
President Donald Trump
pulled out of the Iran nuclear
deal because it was associated
with his predecessor Barack
Obama, according to leaked
documents published last
Saturday.
“The administration is set
upon an act of diplomatic
vandalism, seemingly for
ideological and personality
reasons - it was Obama’s deal,”
Ambassador Kim Darroch
Trump ‘ditched Iran deal to spite Obama’
| KHAIRIL HASSAN |
THE country will experience a partial lunar
eclipse just before dawn on Wednesday, July
17. The next occurrence of the phenomenon
will be on June 21, 2020.
The eclipse will be visible in Brunei and
most parts of Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe
and South America.
A partial eclipse occurs when the Earth
moves between the sun and the moon but
the three celestial bodies do not form a
straight line. This causes some part of the
moon’s surface to be covered by the Earth’s
shadow.
From Brunei, a lunar eclipse will start
when the moon passes through the Earth’s
penumbral shadow beginning at 2.44am
local time on July 17. The partial lunar
eclipse phase will start when part of Earth’s
darkest shadow or umbra covers the moon
at 4.01am.
For Brunei, the maximum eclipse will
occur at 5.30am. This is when more than half
Partial lunar
eclipse this
Wednesday
| HAKIM HAYAT |
IT IS a day of significance
for Brunei-India relations in
the space exploration arena
today, with the Sultanate
giving its South Asian ally a
helping hand in its second
lunar mission.
The expedition, dubbed
Chandrayaan-2, will see
a lander being sent to a
completely unexplored
section of the Moon earlier
this morning.
An Indian space tracking
station located in Brunei will
playacritical role inthesuccess
of the mission as it passes over
the country’s airspace during
its separation stage.
Chandrayaan-2 will build
on the work of its predecessor
lunar mission Chandrayaan-1,
most famous for helping
discover molecules of water
on the Moon a decade ago.
Brunei lends a hand
to Indian Moon mission
wrote in a diplomatic cable in
May 2018.
The cable was included
in a second batch of leaked
reports published by the
Mail on Sunday newspaper,
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Deputy General Manager of
ISTRAC Brunei Asif Siddiqui
during a brieing with
oficials
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HAKIM HAYAT
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His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar
‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam; and His
Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime
Minister’s Ofice being greeted by congregants at the Jame’ ‘Asr Hassanil Bolkiah yesterday
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This latest mission will see the
deployment of a lander and
a rover, which is expected to
shed light on the South Polar
region of the Moon – an area
that is generally rich in water
ice and sunlight and where no
one has dared venture before.
ISTRAC Brunei Deputy
General Manager Asif Siddiqui
said during a presentation
when Brunei Government
officials visited the tracking
station, that the Indian
Space Research Organisation
(ISRO) Telemetry Tracking
Station (ISTRAC) in Kampong
Tungku will be overseeing
the separation of the
Chandrayaan-2 lander from its
rocket over the station here,
approximately 16 minutes
after the mission’s scheduled
launch at 0251 hours Indian
time or 0521 hours local time
today.
The visit of the Brunei
government officials to
the tracking station was
hosted by the Indian High
Commissioner to Brunei
Darussalam Ajaneesh Kumar.