Tiny physically, but not so in certain areas

This is from the article, Intellectual Property & Development, in Latin Business Chronicle by John Murphy.

Though Singapore is a tiny country compared to India, it has managed to attract four times as much direct investment from around the globe — about $200 billion — much of it in high-wage sectors that are reliant on intellectual property. Consider these examples:

* Lucasfilm Animation, owned by George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars films, opened its only digital animation studio outside the United States in Singapore in 2005.
* BMW recently set up its first design studio outside Germany or the United States — in Singapore.
* Pfizer recently opened a $600 million manufacturing facility in Singapore.

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We aren't that rich :(

This is from the article, Singapore fears maid exodus to Hong Kong, Taiwan, on Reuters by Gillian Murdoch.

Indonesian and Sri Lankan maids are paid S$280 ($200) a month in Singapore, and Filipinas up to S$350 ($256).

That is less than half what they can earn in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where employers pay $506 and $550 respectively.

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In education, size doesn't matter

This is from the article, Ministry gears to improve education quality, in Daily News of Republic of Botswana on education.

As a soft qualitative skill, he said some countries such as Singapore and USA were leading in the maximisation of human capital that drives their national economy.

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But, even hands-on techniques and models drawing can be memorized

This is from the article, Elementary math lessons in Wentzville will change to Singapore method, in STLtoday.com by Jessica Bock.

WENTZVILLE — Singapore is coming to Wentzville in the form of math lessons.
Educators hope Singapore math will help develop students who are mathematical thinkers, rather than memorizers. The method has gained interest from teachers in the United States in the last decade.

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A place reps from two worlds meet up

This is from the article, U.S., North Korea to Hold Nuclear Talks in Singapore, in Bloomberg.com by Chen Shiyin.

U.S. chief nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill will meet with his North Korean counterpart in Singapore next week to continue talks on dismantling the communist country's atomic program, the State Department said.

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In a V-shaped belt

This is from the article, The End of the End of History, in The New Republic by Robert Kagan.

a "V-shaped belt" of pro-American democratic powers "stretching from Northeast to Central Asia." When the navies of India, the United States, Japan, Australia, and Singapore exercised in the Bay of Bengal last year, Chinese and other observers referred to it as the "axis of democracy." Japan's prime minister spoke of an "Asian arc of freedom and prosperity" stretching from Japan to Indonesia to India.

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