News Brunei Government: Brunei government again defends penal code
The government of Brunei in a letter it sent to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on April 7 defended the country's highly controversial penal code with a provision that calls for the death penalty for anyone convicted of homosexuality.
News Brunei Government: The Government of Brunei Darussalam and CAE Brunei MPTC to establish an ASEAN Center of Excellence in Brunei for Emergency Management and Crisis Management
Today at the Brunei International Defence Exhibition and Conference , the Government of Brunei, represented by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and CAE, jointly announced that the CAE Brunei Multi-Purpose ...
News Brunei Government: Cambodia Government Denies Signing Secret Naval Base Deal With China
The Cambodian government denied on Monday the signing of a secret agreement ... an area that it claims in its entirety and disputed by Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia. The US has ...
News Brunei Government: Brunei to boost rice output, ease rice imports
Indonesia's Biogene Plantation joined hands with the Brunei government in 2018 to launch a high-yielding strain "Sembada (188)" variant with a capacity for 8 tons per hectare a season. The ...
News Brunei Government: World Briefs : Brunei Sultan returns Oxford honorary degree
Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has returned an honorary degree awarded by Britain's Oxford University after a global backlash led by celebrities including George Clooney and Elton John for proposing the death penalty for gay sex and adultery.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
News Brunei Government: Sultan of Brunei and Award Waapsi
Following the controversy surrounding Brunei’s new and brutal anti-LGBT laws, and following wide scale protests, Oxford University wrote to Sultan of Brunei opening the review of the honorary law degree awarded in 1993. The Sultan...
News Brunei Government: Brunei announces death penalty moratorium
Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque in Brunei (Photo by Bernard Spragg via Flickr) The government of Brunei on Sunday announced it has placed a moratorium on the death penalty in the country. The New ...
News Brunei Government: Governments urged to keep pressure on Brunei after gay sex death penalty halt
"There is nothing stopping the Brunei government from lifting the moratorium at anytime." Brunei, a former British protectorate of about 400,000 nestled between two Malaysian states on Borneo ...
News Brunei Government: L.A. will press boycott of Beverly Hills Hotel despite Brunei death penalty reprieve
But the move was not enough for Koretz, who authored a resolution passed by the City Council last month calling for the boycott of the hotels, which are owned by the government of Brunei. “The ...
News Brunei Government: Brunei Backs Off Homosexual Death Penalty After Hotel Boycotts
(Google Maps) LOS ANGELES, CA — The boycott of the Hotel Bel-Air and the Beverly Hills Hotel over the Brunei government's plan to kill adulterers and homosexuals by stoning appears to be working.
