Temporary closure along Jln Utama Menteri
Lyna Mohamad
Several stretches of road along Jalan Utama Menteri will be temporarily closed to road users from 7am tomorrow until April 11 (subject to weather conditions ) to accommodate road repair works.
BruHealth rolls out new features
The BruHealth app will receive an update with two new features vastly improving public convenience. The updates – the Recovery Certificate Feature and the Antigen Rapid Test (ART) Feature with QR code – will be launched tonight at 10pm.
The features were announced by Minister of Health Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham bin Haji Jaafar in a statement during the daily press conference yesterday.
Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham explained that the Recovery Certificate Feature is specifically to confirm that former positive patients have completed their quarantine and have recovered from the COVID-19 infection.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
‘Pandemic has revealed multifaceted challenges’
The COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged and accelerated innovation and advancement in the digital sphere, requiring improved digital literacy and understanding the social aspects of technological adaptation in daily lives. This was the message from guest of honour Minister of Education Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Hamzah bin Haji Sulaiman at the opening of the 4th School Leaders Convention 2022 on Tuesday.
“As we continue to cope with the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how it has revealed multifaceted challenges and learning opportunities that bring about adaptive and transformative leadership, especially in managing crisis and change,” he said.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
688 IBTE graduates feted at three sessions
The final day of the 29th Institute of Brunei Technical Education (IBTE) Convocation Ceremony celebrated 688 graduates in three sessions yesterday.
The first session in the morning saw 99 graduates receiving their Higher National Technical Education Certificate (HNTec) and 143 receiving their National Technical Education Certificate (NTEC) from the IBTE School of Hospitality.
The second morning session saw 160 graduates receiving their HNTec and 87 receiving their NTec from the IBTE School of Information and Communication Technology. The final afternoon session saw 36 graduates receiving their NTec from the IBTE School of Energy and Engineering Satellite, while 163 received their HNTec from the IBTE School of Business.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
No more quarantine for air travellers arriving in Indonesia
JAKARTA (The Straits Times/ANN) – International air travellers arriving in Indonesia no longer have to serve quarantine, as COVID-19 cases trend downwards around the vast archipelago.
“The government decided to take several measures to ease restrictions. International travellers arriving in all airports across Indonesia no longer need to serve quarantine,” President Joko Widodo said in a speech yesterday.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
Malaysia reports 21,483 new COVID-19 infections
KUALA LUMPUR (Xinhua) – Malaysia reported 21,483 new COVID-19 infections, as of midnight on Tuesday, bringing the national total to 4,032,435, according to the Health Ministry.
There are 394 new imported cases, with 21,089 being local transmissions, data released on the ministry’s website showed.
A further 73 deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 34,535.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
Japan lifts power outage warning, outlook fragile
TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s government lifted a warning of potential blackouts for the Tokyo region yesterday as weather and conservation efforts improved, but the supply outlook still appears fragile with several coal-fired plants offline.
The energy shortfall came as people used more power to keep warm on an unusually cold, snowy day on Tuesday and followed an earthquake last week that caused several coal-fired plants to temporarily stop generating electricity.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
No survivors found in China Eastern crash
WUZHOU, CHINA (AP) – Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside on Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball.
No survivors have been found among the 123 passengers and nine crew members. Video clips posted by China’s state media show small pieces of the Boeing 737-800 plane scattered over a wide forested area, some in green fields, others in burnt-out patches with raw earth exposed after fires burned in the trees. Each piece of debris has a number next to it, the larger ones marked off by police tape.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin
Britain pledging to respond to war, cost-of-living crisis
WARSAW, POLAND (AP) – Poland has identified 45 Russian intelligence officers using diplomatic status as cover to stay in the country and authorities are seeking to expel them, officials said yesterday.
Poland’s Internal Security Agency said it’s asking the Foreign Ministry to urgently remove the Russians, who were described as a danger to Poland’s security, from the country.
“These are people who have and operate using their diplomatic status, but in reality conduct intelligence activities against Poland,” said the state security spokesman Stanislaw Zaryn.
More details on Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin