How two brothers breathed new life into Restoran Siti Rabiah
Behind the wok of many a small warong is a solitary chef who's mastered all the staple recipes of the local cuisine, without needing...
How this retired Lieutenant Colonel led the revival of Wasan, Brunei’s biggest rice farm
With Wasan abandoned and rice planting fading away in Brunei-Muara, Hj Sahlan marshaled 200 ex-military members to revive Wasan in 2006.
The riverside restaurant that saved Pg Abu Bakar
A bustling businessman in the 1990s, Pg Hj Abu Bakar was left nearly broke after a series of bad business deals. With just $600, he opened Soto Pabo from home.
Quiet persistence: Meet the man behind Mr Baker’s, Brunei’s biggest healthy bakery
After two years of heavy losses and nearly going out of business, this is how Eric Pui found Mr Baker's breakthrough with a small hospital kiosk.
Continuing my mother’s legacy: Flour and Butter
It's not often that on a weekday evening - in the middle of December - that a small eatery tucked away in Menglait can...
At 86, business icon Hj Adnin is determined to champion Brunei’s ceramic making
At 7.30am on a Monday in December, 30 minutes before our interview is scheduled, Hj Adnin Pehin Dato Hj Ibrahim, a pioneering Malay businessman in...
Labourer by day, chef by night: KueTiaw Abam Panas Panas
Sweat beading his brow, Mohd Fadillah Hj Abu Bakar withstands the heat of the stove as he works the wok at a small live...
Brunei’s last batik producer earns Japan’s Good Design Award
It's been two decades since Hj Zainal Abidin Hj Ibrahim decided he would attempt to produce Brunei's first commercial line of batik clothing.
Then in...
PAZ Tarbiyyah opens Brunei’s first Islamic enrichment centre for children
When Rafeah Serbini and Dr. Hjh Mona Yati Mohd Kassim first met several years ago, both women held budding professional and corporate careers.
Rafeah was...
Brunei’s JMA partners with Malaysia’s Volkspeed to open continental car workshop
At the beginning of 2018, Jeff Ng's Volkswagen Golf R, the most souped-up version of the enduringly popular hatchback from the German automaker, couldn't...
