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Brunei: Royal wedding bells

Categories: East Asia, Brunei, Indonesia

The Brunei-born Australian who blogs Macam-Macam [1] (meaning all kinds) from Indonesia was watching Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, former World's Richest Man, divorcing his second wife and taking a new bride. “Unsurprisingly, no mention of the Sultan's marriage in the country's compliant national English daily, the Borneo Bulletin [2]. Wouldn't want to let the citizens know what their ruler is up to after all, would we? [3]