Language in Brunei

In Brunei, it is the custom for wedding guests to receive a gift, to act as a memento of the happy occasion. Usually, this is a bowl or a cu...

Obviously, the Malay word psikologi is a borrowing from the English word psychology . But how should it be pronounced? Colleagues at UBD ha...

I always find it rather bizarre to open the newspaper and see photos of people I know. But I guess that is what happens in such a small coun...

I have previously discussed the difficulties of using a Malay dictionary (e.g. here ). This basically involves removing the prefixes so that...

There is an organisation in Brunei called Katakijau that seems to be engaged in various environmental activities. When I first heard it ment...

I spent five days last week as a guest at Guangxi University in Nanning, southern China. The campus is in many ways beautiful, with lots of ...

I previously mentioned the absence of a Chinese flag in my set of flags on the right ( here ). But now look: we have the flag of the People...

From page A5 of The Brunei Times of 27 February, 2011, reporting on a speech by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports: The minister sai...

Congkak is a game played by two people. You sit opposite your oponent and take it in turns to move pieces around the wooden containers. This...

As part of my fourth year course on Electronic Communication, we look at Wikipedia, specifically at how we might improve some of the entries...

On Monday evening, I was flying back from Singapore on an RBA flight, and as we approached Brunei, I heard the announcement "We will sh...

Last week, I spent two days in the UBD Belalong Research Centre, a magical place nestling on a river in the depths of the forest in Temburon...

This is the headline from the front page of the Media Permata of 5 February: It says "Women today can play an important role for the c...

I was just reading some of the entries in the blog by Tiger Lim ( here ). For example: You know lah back to early 80's where got many en...

This is the sign on the outside fence of the satellite relay station at the top of the hill at the start of the Tasek Lama to Markucing fore...

It is often claimed that because the Chinese script is not phonetic, it allows the different Chinese languages (or 'dialects') to be...

In recent posts, I have commented on innovative linguistic usage in Taiwan, both borrowing from English such as 霸凌 from bullying ( here ), ...

It is sometimes interesting to consider what is an error and what is a feature of a local variety of English. I saw this sign at a scenic si...

In the past month, some new maps have been installed along the Tasek Lama to Markucing forest trail in Brunei. Here's a picture of the o...

On 2 January, Princess Sarah, the wife of the Crown Prince of Brunei, gave birth to a daughter. The headline on page 1 of the Media Permata ...