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...The Gurkha garrison is commanded like any other British military unit but is funded by Hassanal Bolkiah, Omar’s son and successor....
...Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said on Sunday that he would extend a moratorium on the death penalty to offences covered under the Syariah Penal Code Order (SCPO), a sharia law that makes anal sex, extramarital...
...Corporate clients are boycotting a group of hotels including the Dorchester in London owned by the Sultan of Brunei....
...Following international outcry and calls for a boycott, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah was forced to beat a partial retreat by extending a moratorium on the death penalty....
...The University of Oxford has also said that it would “reconsider” the Sultan of Brunei’s honorary degree. Pressure has also come from within the hospitality industry....
...The sultan — who is also prime minister and one of the world’s richest men — has defended the new legislation....
...A campaign has called for a boycott of a dozen plush hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, including the Dorchester Hotel, London, and the Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles....
...The group has been owned by the Sultan of Brunei through its state-owned investment agency since 1987....
...Nuffield Lodge is owned by the Sultan of Oman, St John’s Lodge belongs to Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei, and The Holme, on Regent’s Park Inner Circle, is owned by the Saudi royal family....
...(FT) Brunei backtracks on death penalty Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a moratorium on the death penalty to controversial new laws prohibiting adultery and gay sex following a global...
...The 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations include some of the world’s longest-ruling leaders in Hassanal Bolkiah, sultan of oil-rich Brunei for more than 51 years, and Hun Sen, premier...
...Leaders ranging from Hassanal Bolkiah, the sultan of oil-rich Brunei, to Hun Sen, the authoritarian prime minister of impoverished Cambodia for more than three decades, were due to attend a gala dinner on...
...A quarter of a century later, on the brink of Hassanal Bolkiah’s 50th anniversary on the throne, a new theme has emerged in this tiny, oil-rich Southeast Asian state: moderation....
...Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan who has ruled since 1967, has, at least, managed to maintain his wealth at $20bn, according to Forbes, including a 1,800-room palace and an estimated 6,000 cars....
...An eccentric Indian tycoon, some of the world’s most luxurious hotels and now the Sultan of Brunei....
...The bad publicity for one of the capital’s best-known hotels comes weeks after some celebrities began a boycott of the Dorchester Collection chain over the decision by its owner, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah...
...“We are not doing this just for the sake of it, we are doing this by order of Allah and what is in the Koran,” Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Brunei’s ruler, said in a speech on Wednesday....
...This year’s conference, which begins on Tuesday at the ExCel centre in Docklands, will be attended by Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, the Sultan...
...Yet there they both were – along with the Sultan of Brunei and other dignitaries from India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – at the finish line of the 8,000km “Asean-India Car Rally” in New...
...“It’s like when [the Sultan of Brunei] bought the Beverly Hills Hotel [in 1987]. It made no sense financially, but he was right and I was wrong. Over time, the value has increased.”...
...Speculation focuses on Prince Jefri of Brunei, who is a friend of Khalili and rumoured to have bought from him: Khalili also advised the Sultan of Brunei on his collection of Islamic art....
...Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Brunei Sultan...
...(Registered 10 January 2008) Gift of a Harrods hamper from the Sultan of Brunei....
...Even after the Sultan of Brunei and Sheikh Saud al-Thani of Qatar entered the fray – the latter’s multimillion-pound spending sprees sent prices for Islamic art spiralling from the mid-1990s – Khalili continued...
...One of these ordinary people is an ex-Page 3 model, another a former bodyguard to the Sultan of Brunei and a third a winner of the World Karaoke Championships....
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