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Row Houses, Kampong Ayer, Brunei, 1998
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"If [Bruneian 'water village'] residents lose their homes to fires, they may move downstream to government-subsidized housing, part of a welfare system that helps the royal family stay in power but is financed by a diminishing supply of petroleum."

—From "South China Sea: Crossroads of Asia," December 1998, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita

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