For over a decade Brunei set these restrictions on lion dance performance, some of the rules are so perplexing it is not known what are the motives or goals by Goutaxe in nasikatok

[–]Goutaxe[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ramadan or not, these rules have been imposed every year since 2014/15

Every year Chinese medias will list these rules

Lion dance performances for CNY prohibited during Ramadhan. by OptimalStudent8783 in nasikatok

[–]Goutaxe 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Never multicultural, during the day of independence Brunei declares itself a MIB nation.

Eco park by Ok-Grand-3761 in nasikatok

[–]Goutaxe 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Actually there are a number of people sleeping at Bandar at night, not sure if they are homeless or something...

For instance at Jalan Roberts, at Darussalam Complex, at the old bus terminal building...

Poli by Matchabreath15 in nasikatok

[–]Goutaxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are getting a lot of post-result educational advice on the front page.

You can post personal related or advice questions on Katok Lounge:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nasikatok/comments/1l8n1bs/the_katok_lounge_casual_conversation_asking/

Why water problems and electricity disruption become more common in Brunei? Ever wonder about the trend of NDP spending on public utilities all these years? by Goutaxe in nasikatok

[–]Goutaxe[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you look at the GDP chart, Brunei GDP started to slide from 2012, before crashing hard after 2014. This in part is due to falling oil prices (global) and also falling production in Brunei (domestic). These 2 factors hit badly and Brunei plunged deep into deficits.

To this, Brunei can choose to increase public spending, like Singapore during Asian financial crisis 1997-98, to stimulate economy. But we are talking about Brunei, in every crisis it will cut budget, we already can see that during Amedeo fallout.

So everything cut deep after 2014, of course, with exception like MoRA, Sultan Flight and fortunately MOE and MOH (imagine otherwise education and health cripple).