Word: brunei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's biggest bank balance, several luxury hotels and two wives. But is the SULTAN OF BRUNEI also, well, a party guy? Former Miss USA SHANNON MARKETIC has filed suit against the Sultan, his brother Prince Jefri Bolkiah and a Los Angeles talent agency after she took a trip with a friend to the tiny province that borders Malaysia to make what she thought were promotional appearances for a fee of $21,200 a week. Instead, she says, she found she was expected to go to all-night parties and make herself available for sex. She had to hand over...
...Sultan of Brunei took as his second wife a Royal Brunei Airlines hostess named Mariam, the daughter of a customs agent...
Secretary of State Warren Christopher has formally recommended that President Clintonestablish full diplomatic ties with Vietnam. Clinton is expected to make a decision in time for Christopher's July trip to meet with the Association of South East Asian Nations in Brunei. If he receives the go-ahead, Christopher will make a diplomatic stop in Hanoi. Although many business leaders support full relations with Vietnam,relatives of soldiers missing in Vietnam oppose the moveas long as the MIA issue remains unresolved. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), aformer Vietnam War POWwho has long supported normalizing relations, says he will offer...
...stability not only in Vietnam but also in other countries in the region. We have consistently asserted our sovereignty and our jurisdiction over the Spratly and Paracel islands since we do have the evidence and grounds for that. All the parties concerned-Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei-should together negotiate to find a solution to the dispute. It is not our policy to deal with this issue bilaterally...
CHEERS WENT UP IN FUTURES MARKETS everywhere when the news broke of Leeson's detention in Germany last Thursday after his Royal Brunei airliner landed in Frankfurt after a 12-hour flight. Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu, and there, after plunking down $1,600 in cash for seats in the economy section, he boarded the plane in his own name. Malaysian authorities just missed catching up with the Leesons. But reports of their flight immediately circulated abroad. In Frankfurt, German police, carrying pictures of the couple...