Brunei’s oil and gas sector is hoping to reach 78 per cent or 31,795 local employees by 2025 compared to the current 62 per cent or 18,746 Bruneians, revealed the Manpower Industry Steering Committee (MISC) Working Group for Energy (MISC-WG Energy) on Wednesday. The 2025 target was mentioned in the Industry’s Guidebook 2021 by the…
Jaguar Land Rover marked the end of 2020 with a second successive quarter-on-quarter recovery in sales, despite the continuing impact of COVID-19. Retail sales for the quarter ending 31 December 2020 were 128,469 vehicles, 13.1 per cent higher than the 113,569 vehicles sold in the preceding quarter, but down 9.0 per cent on the same…
Tesla Inc’s vehicle registrations in the U.S. state of California jumped nearly 63% during the fourth quarter compared with last year, largely due to the success of the company’s Model Y, according to data from Cross-Sell here, a research firm that collates title and registration data. The automaker reported better-than-expected 2020 vehicle deliveries earlier this month,…
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U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday began signing 15 executive actions addressing the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and racial inequality, and undoing some policies put in place by his predecessor Donald Trump. The actions, fulfilling his promise to move quickly on Day One of his presidency, initiate the process of the United States rejoining the…
Cosmopolitan College of Commerce and Technology (COSMO) is committed to expanding its tech-based capabilities in order to ensure that students are employable and job-ready amidst the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Speaking in an interview, COSMO Principal Nadirah Jambol noted how there has been a growing demand for digital skills as of late due to the…
The local government of the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka on Tuesday issued a virus emergency alert, following the detection a day earlier of three cases of a new coronavirus variant. On Monday, three people in their 20s to 60s were confirmed to be infected with the virus variant in the prefecture. None of them…
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Brunei’s total trade for October 2020 has decreased to $1,470 million from $1,495 million in the previous year, marking a decrease of 1.7 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y). According to the latest International Merchandise Trade Statistics (IMTS) by Department of Economic Planning and Statistics (DEPS), the figure comprises exports valued at $537.9 million and imports amounting…
Democrat Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, assuming the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered by a raging coronavirus pandemic. Biden, 78, will become the oldest U.S. president in history at a scaled-back ceremony in Washington that has been largely…
Netflix Inc said on Tuesday its global subscriber rolls crossed 200 million at the end of 2020 and projected it will no longer need to borrow billions of dollars to finance its broad slate of TV shows and movies. Shares of Netflix rose nearly 13% in extended trading as the financial milestone validated the company’s…
Indonesia will rebuild homes and buildings ravaged by a powerful earthquake that struck Sulawesi island last week, President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday, as the death toll reached 90 and thousands more people were displaced. The 6.2-magnitude earthquake caused significant damage to hundreds of homes, a mall, hospital, hotels and government buildings early on Friday…
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