Bruneian's love their Sultan and they show it off every year by celebrating the monarch's birthday with extravagance. The following article was published on January 14, 2009 and it gives us a glimpse of how much money goes into celebrating the sultan's birthday every year. Bear in mind that this was only the budget for the Temburong District which is home to just 10,000 or 2.5 percent of the sultanate's 400,000 population.
Read the stories and how they came to be during Melvin's and Jennee's tenure at The Brunei Times.
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