IT is said that the human brain loves good story telling. Maybe it’s the power of story telling that has shaped UAE’s youngest writer award winner – eight-year-old Huzaifa Ali of Dubai.
Kota Kinabalu: Sunday’s gathering of a revived Sabah Australian Alumni Association dubbed “Kokaburra Fellowship” attracted a turnout of more than 50 at the KK Wetlands Ramsar Site.
TAS INSTITUTE of Oil & Gas hailed the day in 2011 when dozens of its pioneer Advanced BTEC (Business Technology Education Council) Diploma grads were snapped up by Shell in one fell swoop, thanks to a concerted investment to raise skills capacity of local.
Willie Ng, Executive Director and an ex-La Sallian who founded TAS in 2008 primarily and originally to address what he called “serious shortage” of Sabahans employed in oil & gas, recalled that first amazing big hit:
“It’s one achievement I feel very happy about, that our very first batch of 45 operation technicians produced by TAS were all snapped up by Shell in 2011 to work in the biggest crude oil production platform in the whole of Malaysia – the Gumusut-Kakap platform which lies in 1,200m (3,937ft) deep water with a daily production of 165,000 barrels a day, is the largest offshore operating facility anywhere in Asia, operated by Shell and located at about 100km west of S
SHARJAH: Investing in children as the ones who will shape our future is what inspired the Sharjah Book Authority to organise the annual Sharjah Children Reading Festival, now into its 14th year.
Chairman Ahmad bin Rakkad Al Emeri, Chairman said: “Under this slogan ‘Train your brain’, we wanted to tell the world that minds being shaped among us today are the first guarantee for all our aspirations and hopes.
SHARJAH: The May 3-14 Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is but one of multiple cultural projects and events organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) of the United Arab Emirates, to which the Daily Express is invited to cover every year.