New Internationalist, May 1st, 2000
`The central cardinal element of His Majesty's style of government is
From the Sultan's website: www.bruneisultan.com
DESPITE his wealth, Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin Waddaulah, Sultan and Prime Minister of Brunei since 1967, is surrounded by gloom. From his father he inherited a personal fortune estimated at $40 billion, which once placed him at the top of
The question is: where in earth can it all have gone? It's not so easy to blow $30 billion, which is roughly equivalent to the entire annual income of all 125 million people living in Bangladesh.
Well, a sizeable chunk of it went on th...
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