Royal Dutch Shell, an Anglo-Dutch multinational, runs two major operations in Brunei as a joint venture with the Brunei government. A spokesman, Jonathan French, said the company would not comment on the possible impact on its employees.
Extracts from an article by Andrew Buncombe published 30 April 2014 by The Independent
The Sultan of Brunei, an absolute monarch who pays for a garrison of British troops to be stationed is his oil rich nation, will on Thursday dismiss the concerns of human rights campaigners and start imposing sharia law. Many of the laws, which include the dismemberment of limbs and stoning to death, will apply to both Muslims and non-Muslims.
Royal Dutch Shell, an Anglo-Dutch multinational, runs two major operations in Brunei as a joint venture with the Brunei government. A spokesman, Jonathan French, said the company would not comment on the possible impact on its employees.
The sultan was for many years was involved in a high-profile legal battle with his brother, a playboy accused of misappropriating £9 billion of government assets and who reportedly owned a yacht called Tits.
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Extract: Since 2003, the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Night Before the Oscars event has been held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. But now the Sunset Boulevard resort is being boycotted by gay groups and others because its owner, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, is poised to implement Sharia law, calling for death by stoning for gays and adulterers.
Celebs, Human Rights Groups Boycott Beverly Hills Hotel
Extract:
The small East Asian country Brunei may be more than 8,000 miles from Hollywood. But celebrities upset by a set of laws recently passed there that include the death penalty for consensual gay sex and adultery have a target nearby to point their concerns. The iconic Beverly Hills Hotel and its equally high-end sister hotel Hotel Bel-Air are owned by Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, also the country’s prime minister. The properties are facing boycotts from the LGBT community and the stars that support it. Similar efforts are underway across the Atlantic, where the sultan’s hotel group, the Dorchester Collection, also operates hotels in London, Paris, Milan and Rome.
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