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The tiny, oil-rich regime of Brunei has faced wide criticism for failing to adhere to international labor rights conventions on unionization and non-discrimination, and for enabling the systematic abuse of foreign laborers, who fill many of Brunei's lowest-paid, low-skill jobs, like domestic work.

Michelle Chen: Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop 'NAFTA of the Pacific'? Michelle Chen 2011

The tiny, oil-rich regime of Brunei has faced wide criticism for failing to adhere to international labor rights conventions on unionization and non-discrimination, and for enabling the systematic abuse of foreign laborers, who fill many of Brunei's lowest-paid, low-skill jobs, like domestic work.

Michelle Chen: Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop 'NAFTA of the Pacific'? Michelle Chen 2011

As the whole world knows by now or should, the pastoral, secluded Hotel Bel Air has reopened after a two-year $100 million renovation, overseen by the Sultan of Brunei's Dorchester Collection people.

Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011

The tiny, oil-rich regime of Brunei has faced wide criticism for failing to adhere to international labor rights conventions on unionization and non-discrimination, and for enabling the systematic abuse of foreign laborers, who fill many of Brunei's lowest-paid, low-skill jobs, like domestic work.

Michelle Chen: Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop 'NAFTA of the Pacific'? Michelle Chen 2011

The Sultan of Brunei's luxury hotel firm, The Dorchester Collection, eventually bought the hotel, adding it to a roster of properties that includes the Beverly Hills Hotel, the New York Palace, and the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris.

Wolfgang Puck, La Prarie at the Remodeled Hotel Bel-Air The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

As the whole world knows by now or should, the pastoral, secluded Hotel Bel Air has reopened after a two-year $100 million renovation, overseen by the Sultan of Brunei's Dorchester Collection people.

Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011

As the whole world knows by now or should, the pastoral, secluded Hotel Bel Air has reopened after a two-year $100 million renovation, overseen by the Sultan of Brunei's Dorchester Collection people.

Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011

The Sultan of Brunei's luxury hotel firm, The Dorchester Collection, eventually bought the hotel, adding it to a roster of properties that includes the Beverly Hills Hotel, the New York Palace, and the Hôtel Plaza Athénée in Paris.

Wolfgang Puck, La Prarie at the Remodeled Hotel Bel-Air The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

As the whole world knows by now or should, the pastoral, secluded Hotel Bel Air has reopened after a two-year $100 million renovation, overseen by the Sultan of Brunei's Dorchester Collection people.

Jay Weston: Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel Air Restaurant Is Extraordinary Jay Weston 2011

If Robert Evans, the infamous Hollywood producer, were to have opined on the Sultan of Brunei's plans for a two year, $100 million renovation of the Hotel Bel Air, I imagine that his first demand would be that "the swans stay in the picture."

David Dixon: Hotel Bel Air: The Swans Stay in the Picture David Dixon 2011