BruDirect

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BruDirect
Type Daily newspaper
FormatOnline
Owner(s)Ignatius Stephen
Founded1999
LanguageMalay, English
Website brudirect.com

BruDirect is a daily online [1] Brunei newspaper, established in 1999. [2] The newspaper was founded by the Brunei journalist Ignatius Stephen [3] [4] and is published in both the Malay and English languages.

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References

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