MUARA, Tuesday 18 June 2013 – The Minister of Health, Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Johan Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Adanan Bin Begawan Pehin Siraja Khatib Dato Seri Setia Haji Mohd Yusof and delegation from the Ministry of Health visited the Multi National...

JERUDONG, Friday 20 June 2013 - The ASEAN Defence Minister's Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise (HADR & MM EX)came to an end yesterday with the visit of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah...

MUARA, Thursday 20 June 2013 - His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar `Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, Minister of Defence and Supreme Commander of...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Wednesday 19 June 2013 - The Tropical Revolving Storm Typhoon SIMPUR continues to strike affecting the villagers. More victims were reported stranded this morning. Two casualties at Kampong Mentiri, two casualties at Kampong Biang and ten...

MUARA, Wednesday 19 June 2013 – The visiting naval ship from India, the INS GHARIAL went all out to the local community today, donating blood and entertaining special group of children from The Society for the Management of Autism-Related Issues - Training, Education...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Tuesday 18 June 2013 – Local and international media who will be providing wide coverage of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise (ADMM PLUS HADR & MM Ex) was taken for...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Tuesday 18 June 2013 - HADR Ops Very Important Core Competency For Armed Forces - Colonel Douglas W. Pasnik, Chief of Regional Plans And Operations For Commaner S.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, Head of the U.S. delegation participating in the...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Tuesday 18 June 2013 – Local officials from the Temburong District informed the Incident Coordination Centre (ICC), that the main water pump in Bangar Town had been damaged due to soil erosion. Current water supply to the area is reported to be...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Monday 17 June 2013 - Participating soldiers in the ADMM Plus HADR & MM Ex shared their thoughts with interviewers from the Ministry of Defence (MinDef) on how the preparations have gone for the exercise, and how they felt going into the exercise...

MUARA, Monday 17 June 2013 – The opening ceremony of the inaugural ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise (ADMM PLUS HADR & MM Ex) HADR & MM Ex was held today at Multi National Coordination...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Monday 17 June 2013 – A Tropical Revolving Storm (TRS) Typhoon “SIMPUR”, which was reported to be 100km North East of Brunei Darussalam heading West-South-West, moving at 110km/h. The wind speed was reported to have strengthened to 135km/h. As a...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sunday 16 June 2013 – The preparations for the upcoming HADR exercise are going at full swing with cross-training conducted at Kampong Biang in Temburong District. The cross-training encompasses land-based, water-borne and medical trainings. The...

MENTIRI, Sunday 16 June 2013 – A coordination rehearsal, which involved search- locate and casualty evacuation was conducted at Mentiri in preparation for the upcoming HADR exercise. Those who participated included the Search and Rescue (SAR), K-9 units and medical...

MUARA, Sunday 16 June 2013 – Ships from the United States of America, T-AKE 9 U5N5 USS Matthew Perry and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), PEACE ARK arrived today to partake in the ASEAN Defense Minister’s Meeting Plus Humanitarian Assistance and...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sunday 16 June 2013 – The Second ASEAN Militaries’ Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Exercise, dubbed 2nd AHX, was held today at the Warrant Officers’ Mess, Muara Naval Base.Opening the event was the welcoming remarks of the Co-Chairman...

MUARA, Saturday 15 June 2013 - As the preparations of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise (ADMM PLUS HADR & MM Ex) Exercises starts building up for the D-day, entourage from the Ministry...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Saturday 15 June 2013 – More military assets and personnel are arriving from the countries involved in the upcoming HADR exercise. The miitary assets are comprised of naval, air and engineering assets, followed by Real-Life Support (RLS) assets...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Saturday 15 June 2013 – This afternoon a briefing session was held where the respective groups under the Exercise Controller for the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Humanitarian and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Friday 14 June 2013 – Media Working Group embarkation on Indian Navy war vessel INS GHARIYAL was held this afternoon at the Muara Commercial Port. During the embarkation, the media team was welcomed onboard the vessel by the Commanding Officer of...

​BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Friday 14 June 2013 - A number of mini-exercises have been conducted at various sites, specifically Multi-National Coordination Centre (MNCC) and Navy Coordination Centre (NCC) in Muara, Air Coordination Centre (ACC) at Rimba and Incident...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Friday 14 June 2013 – This morning, the Medical Working Group organised cohesion sports and air recce to deployment sites concurrently as part of the Medical Force Integration Training (FIT). This serves to be the final day for the medical FIT...