We here at Debating Brunei have been contemplating on the next issue of discussion. There's a ton of material or issues to dissect and discuss, and we not only draw inspiration from our local media (BB, BT, RTB), but also from the international media (BBC, CNN, AL Jazeera, New York Times, you name it.....). We thought though perhaps it might be fun to look into something that our local media would never contemplate touching (too hot a potato) and provide as objective an analysis on the topic of choice as possible.
We thought long and hard and Mr. Red proposed that there were two particular issues that were of great interest: 1) the issue of alcohol sales (not in Brunei per se, but our neighbours) and how much of our money actually flows out of our country as a result of a thriving legal alcohol trade in Kuala Lurah; and 2) how money laundering in Brunei can affect our local business scene and economy in general. This of course is based on our opinion that money laundering does exist, and that many insiders and businessmen privy to such information has said so in many a coffee shop talk.
Two rather big and interesting topics, and we hope we can pull it off tastefully to spark an intelligent conversation about these two issues. You can help us decide by voting in the online poll in the sidebar. Whichever gets the highest vote will get our analytical treatment (or a pseudo-intelligent attempt to do so)...
We thought long and hard and Mr. Red proposed that there were two particular issues that were of great interest: 1) the issue of alcohol sales (not in Brunei per se, but our neighbours) and how much of our money actually flows out of our country as a result of a thriving legal alcohol trade in Kuala Lurah; and 2) how money laundering in Brunei can affect our local business scene and economy in general. This of course is based on our opinion that money laundering does exist, and that many insiders and businessmen privy to such information has said so in many a coffee shop talk.
Two rather big and interesting topics, and we hope we can pull it off tastefully to spark an intelligent conversation about these two issues. You can help us decide by voting in the online poll in the sidebar. Whichever gets the highest vote will get our analytical treatment (or a pseudo-intelligent attempt to do so)...
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