oadcasting Service (BFBS) station transmits two FM
signals with English and Nepali service) (2006)

Radios:

329,000 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:

4 (includes 2 UHF stations broadcasting a subscription service)
(2006)

Televisions:

201,900 (1998)

Internet country code:

.bn

Internet hosts:

14,950 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2000)

Internet users:

199,532 (2007)

Transportation
Brunei

Airports:

2 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2007)

Heliports:

3 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 672 km; oil 463 km (2007)

Roadways:

total: 3,650 km
paved: 2,819 km
unpaved: 831 km (2005)

Waterways:

209 km (navigable by craft drawing less than 1.2 m) (2007)

Merchant marine:

total: 8
by type: liquefied gas 8
foreign-owned: 1 (UK 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Lumut, Muara, Seria

Military
Brunei

Military branches:

Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF): Royal Brunei Land Forces, Royal
Brunei Navy, Royal Brunei Air Force (Tentera Udara Diraja Brunei)
(2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age (est.) for voluntary military service; non-Malays
are ineligible to serve (2007)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 108,356
females age 16-49: 110,153 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 91,297
females age 16-49: 93,228 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 3,223
female: 3,182 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

4.5% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Brunei

Disputes - international:

Brunei and Malaysia agreed in September 2008 to resolve their
offshore and deepwater seabed dispute, resume hydrocarbon
exploration, and renounce any territorial claims on land; Brunei
established an exclusive economic fishing zone encompassing Louisa
Reef in the southern Spratly Islands in 1984, but makes no public
territorial claim to the offshore reefs; the 2002 "Declaration on
the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea" has eased tensions in
the Spratly Islands but falls short of a legally binding "code of
conduct" desired by several of the disputants

Illicit drugs:

drug trafficking and illegally importing controlled substances are
serious offenses in Brunei and carry a ma