Home | Email | AIM | Help | Make AOL My Homepage
 Sunday, 6 July 2008

Travel

Asia Travel Guides

Asia
Brunei
Select City
Jame'Asr Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque, built to celebrate sultan's silver jubilee

Overview

A cashed-up anachronism with oil to burn.

This tiny oil-rich Islamic sultanate on the northwest coast of Borneo is known chiefly for the astounding wealth of its sultan, its tax-free, subsidised society, and the fact that (statistically at least) its population enjoy one of the highest per capita incomes on earth.