Many have grown rich in construction, retail and banking, industries that are flourishing in this oil-rich country.
Economists predicted the disaster would aggravate a deep economic recession in the oil-rich country of 23 million.
But the scandal will taint the Bolkiah name and could dilute the clan's absolute hold on the oil-rich country.
Economic development in the oil-rich country was led by the US oil majors.
Even some of Mr Bush's fellow Republicans, however, are questioning the size of his aid package for an oil-rich country.
Free-market reforms have turned his oil-rich country, despite the plague of persistent corruption, into the economic locomotive of Central Asia.
And if he turned out to be Congo-Brazzaville's kingmaker, he would have great influence in an oil-rich country with a major port on the Atlantic coast.
And I think that given that it's an oil-rich country and given that there are American and British forces there, who, many people believe should be offering some level of security, why are there still so many problems getting basic supplies?
Kazakhstan's peculiar style of democracy was on display in the last week of a year in which its chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was supposed to show the world that the oil-rich country could live up to international standards of democracy and human rights.
On February 24th Mr Wolfowitz sought to toughen up the debt relief for the Republic of Congo, an oil-rich African country with a notoriously kleptocratic elite.
Even as authorities made preparations for a state funeral, questions loomed over the political transition of the oil-rich South American country.
Basra may be part of the country's oil-rich south, but it wallows in its own sewage and trash.
The oil-rich gulf kingdom, a Sunni Muslim country with deep suspicion of Iran's Shiite Muslim rulers, is believed to also be adamantly opposed to any deal that would benefit Iran.
The proceeds help the odious government in Khartoum prosecute its efforts to enslave or exterminate Christians and others living in that country's oil-rich south, support terrorism and procure weapons of mass destruction.
Only the best resting place would be good enough for a leader who is revered by all the Emiratis as the man who oversaw the transition of the UAE from a poor desert country to an oil-rich Gulf state with all its trappings.
The kidnapping of foreigners and wealthy Nigerians is common in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, in the south of the country, and has become a lucrative trade for criminals.
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Observers say the US finds it hard to criticise a country which is seen as an ally in a volatile, oil-rich region.
Angola lies on the western coast of southern Africa, a country of 18 million people living in an oil- and diamond-rich area about twice the size of Texas.
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Bolivia's new president-elect, Evo Morales, has vowed to nationalize the country's rich oil and gas reserves.
Though the country is rich with oil wealth, the cities are full of beggars and prostitutes -- it's common to see police officers brazenly demanding money at checkpoints, she says.
The only likely additional dividend from Libya's gratitude for the hand-over would be a commercial one, for instance in the country's rich hydrocarbons business and swapping a mass-murderer for an oil contract would be disgraceful.
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