Introduction ne year and two months ago, in November 2016, the newspaper The Brunei Times (BT), closed and took down its online news website along with its exit. This website was chock-full of BT news articles dating back to 2007. It didn’t have the slickest of website designs, but it was functional, had a good search […]
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Brunei Online: Better Data (Part I)
An introduction n Open Brunei, and as individuals, we’ve been dealing with data, collecting it, and making sense of it. The facts project Bruakal involves looking for statistics, sometimes even calculating them ourselves using the figures we find. Faiq’s article Brunei Box Office 2014 involved manually collecting titles of films shown over a year. In particular, there is […]
Drones and the Face
As a Bruneian it might seem unimportant to you to think about drones. But with the right mindset even a subject so remote from you can change the way you think about your everyday life. Drones are essentially aircraft without pilots present in the aerial vehicle. They are instead controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground in a remote location. In recent years, there has been a commercialization of drones by companies such as Amazon who are testing them for a new delivery system. However drones are used mainly for reconnaissance, surveillance, and warfare. By equipping drones with missiles and bombs, military strategy has become more efficient and it is possible to engage in warfare without being in the warzone. In many other fields, technology has made it easier to save lives (medicine), improve living (energy), or keep in touch (communication). In this field, technology has made it easier to kill.
Brunei Online: Platform Websites
[12 minute read] “The objective of the blog is to highlight entertainment news be it in local television or music and performing arts happening in and around the country of Brunei Darussalam, and occasionally posting music news from around the globe.” – BruneiBuzz “It is a portal which will provide free in-depth information and entertainment […]
Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Changing Air Travel [Video]
Open Brunei was invited by Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) to visit the Boeing Everett Factory, and see the Royal Brunei Airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliners being assembled before they go into service later this year. Read the transcript here! Stay tuned for our upcoming posts, also about airlines and flying!