His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mui'zaddien Waddaulah, the Sultan and Yang Dipertuan of Brunei Darussalam has attended a private luncheon hosted by His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al-Thani, the Emir of the State of Qatar and wife. The reception took place at the Wajba Palace. His Majesty is in Doha, Qatar, attending the Second South Summit of the G-77 and China. The Second South Summit of the G-77 and China that was officially closed later in the afternoon adopted the final documents namely the Doha Declaration and the Doha Plan of Action.
 

The Doha Declaration contains a wide range of issues of importance to developing countries. It has identified issues and challenges and suggested a number of measures and approaches to address them. Meanwhile, the Doha Plan of Action is based on the provisions of the Havana Programme of Action adopted by the First South Summit. The document reviews the implementation of the Havana Declaration and Programme of Action and achievements of G-77. It also stresses the need to intensify bilateral sub-regional, regional and inter-regional cooperation among developing countries in all fields and to continue strengthening the unity and solidarity among countries of the South.
 

The closing ceremony ended with the address of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of the State of Qatar. The second South Summit was attended by 132 countries from Asia, Africa, America Latin and Kariba.

While attending the Summit which brings together 132 member states in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di Peratuan of Brunei Darussalam also held separate bilateral meetings with other leaders attending the Summit.
 

His Majesty first held a bilateral meeting with His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal. During the meeting, both leaders discussed efforts to enhance bilateral cooperation. His Majesty then held a bilateral meeting with His Excellency President Mathieu Kerekou of the Republic of Benin.
 

During the meeting, His Majesty and His Excellency also discussed efforts to enhance bilateral cooperation.

The Minister of Home Affairs continues his working visits to government departments to ensure the management runs smoothly. Today, the minister toured the Immigration Department in Berakas.
 

During the visit, Pehin Dato Paduka Awang Haji Adanan met with the senior officers to discuss the procedures toward improving the services to the public. Among the frequented counters at the department is the Dependent and Foreign Workers section. This section deals with applications from individual employers and private firms.
 

The Department endorses an average of 300 applications daily, a majority of which are received from private companies. The endorsement is given after the applications have been approved by the Labour Department. The Minister was accompanied during the visit by his deputy, Pehin Dato Paduka Awang Haji Dani.

The Ministry of Health today issued the 4th edition of the National Standard Drug List, NSDL. It was launched by the Permanent Secretary at the ministry, Awang Serbini bin Ali.
 

The NSDL is a publication which lists all the drugs and supplementary items for use by the medical profession. The list is produced every two to three years by the drug committees within the Ministry of Health. The objective is to promote rational drug-use by informing prescribers and users what is available within the ministry.
 

The NSDL consists of over 600 chemical entities and makes up more than 1,600 different preparations and items. It is one of the most comprehensive and extensive in the ASEAN region. The drug committees are constantly working to ensure the NSDL maintains a balance between cost-effectiveness and keeping up with the modern technology.

Brunei Darussalam is selling about one point eight million barrels of crude oil to India, this year. This followed the signing of a sale agreement between the Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad and the India's Bharat Petroleum Corporation, Friday morning.
 

The BSP Managing Director, Mr. Grahaeme Henderson signed the agreement on behalf of the company while the signatory for the Bharat Petroleum Corporation was its Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. Ashok Sinha. Under the term of the supply arrangement, BSP will supply five thousand barrels a day of the Seria Light Export Blend or SLEB, from January 1st to December 31st this year to Bharat Corporation's subsidiary refinery located in Kochi, southern India. Under the agreement, the Bharat Corporation is also to transport the crude oil in four shipments. It has already taken delivery of the first cargo in March this year, with the second shipment to follow early next week. This is second year that Brunei Crude has entered Indian market.

Heads of each organisation play a major role in influencing and creating a work environment, motivating workers as well as introducing management methods towards enhancing the smooth and effectiveness of the intuition. The Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Office highlighted the matter at a function Friday night where he presented certificates to participants of the Ninth Executive Development Programme for Senior Government Officers. Dato Paduka Awang Haji Eussoff Agaki bin Haji Ismail reiterated that an organisation will not be successfully coordinated if its leader is devoid of any vision.
 

The four months full time training programme involved senior officers of various government ministries and departments including four officers from the Royal Brunei Armed Forces and one from the Royal Brunei Police Force. Among the objectives of the programme are to share contemporary approaches and practices of public policy, public management and governance in order to enhance understanding about the policy and organisational environments in which senior officers work. To demonstrate and teach relevant skills for conceptualising and analysing public sector problems and issues in general and for formulating, implementing and evaluating public policies and development programmes projects in particular and to enhance awareness and understanding about contemporary ideas and approaches to administrative reforms and transformation and about the process of modern governance and strategic management in a dynamic and changing environment.
 

The Executive Development programme for Senior Government officers is the ninth such course to be held, which is jointly organised by the Public Service Department at the Prime Minister's Office and the Faculty of Business, Economics and Policy Studies University Brunei Darussalam.

Home Affairs, Pehin Dato Paduka Haji Dani was present to launch the event. In his address, the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs reminded members of the public that there is no logical excuse for them to dump their garbage at improper disposal areas because the government of His Majesty has provided disposal centres for their convenience.
 

remain people who are ignorant of the fact and still practice the negative habit of dumping rubbish recklessly. It is also against the law to dump rubbish indiscriminately as stated in the minor offences act chapter 30. He deplored the habits of certain individuals who are not bothered about hygiene instead who continued to dispose of their garbage at any convenient open places.
 

all members of the unit which he said has led to improvement in the quality of work. He later handed the duties to the newly appointed Commandant in a ceremony witnessed by the unit's officers and military personnel as well as their families.
 

A local fisherman claimed to have made the biggest catch Friday in the shape of more than 50 tonnes of fish comprising of Yellow Fin and Black Tunas. The catch was by far the largest made by the fisherman since he began his fishing business a year ago.
 

The Syarikat Azam Enterprise owned by Awang Haji Zaini bin Haji Mohamad Zain, said the catch was made in the Zone Three fishing site, an area extending between 20 and 200 miles offshore in Brunei waters. The company has two trawlers engaged in large-scale fishing and one light boat which is fitted with a state-of-the art fishing equipments to locate the presence of fish in the sea. Brunei waters have been found to be in the migration path of tuna resources.