Another type of foreign talents

This is from the article, One man's quest to find first black winner of the Tour de France, by Xan Rice in guardian.co.uk.

Nicholas Leong, [edited] a 40-year-old commercial photographer from Singapore, Leong has already invested nearly three years and tens of thousands of pounds of his own money in his quest to prove Kenyans can transfer their running success into the almost exclusively white world of professional cycling.

"In 106 years of the Tour de France there has never been a single black rider," said Leong, at the start line in Iten last weekend. "I am trying to help change that."

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Four languages, but only Tamil may not be enough

This is from the article, 15-25 yr-olds most active users of AIDS helpline, in The Times of India.

The city-based helpline has been getting calls from not only rural Maharashtra, but also Bangalore, Delhi, Rajasthan, and even Dubai, Singapore and Africa!

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Just by pragmatism and reason isn't so bad.

This is from the article, Lessons on governance from Singapore, by James Shikwati in Business Daily.

The biggest lesson from Singapore is that they do not simply copy and paste policies – the country is run on the basis of pragmatism and reason!

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Wish Rwanda great success

This is from the article, Rwanda Strives to Become High Technology Hub for Africa, in Voice of America by Cathy Majtenyi
Kigali about Rwanda transformation into "the Singapore of Africa".

"We are trying to be the hub within this continent. We are trying to be a services hub, we are trying to be a point of reference for the other countries on the continent in terms of how a third-world country can take itself from the state that most people in the world know Rwanda was in 1994, to a middle-income status country by the year 2020. That really is what Singapore has done," Nyirishema said.

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Talents, an important resource

This is from the article, Southern Africa: SADC Integration Key to Skills Flow, in AllAfrica.com by Anthony Jongwe Harare.

Successful economies have long understood the nexus between the strength of their human resource base and the level of development that can be achieved. This explains why countries without any significant natural resources other than human capital have achieved high levels of development. A case in point would be Singapore and Japan, which saw the long-term wisdom in investing heavily in their human capital and translate such investments into economic success.

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A once collapsing company here helped somewhere else

This is from the article, Nigeria: Grappling With Jigawa, in allAfrica.com by Ibrahim Sheme about Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State inherited what he calls a failed state.

In Kazaure, we are owing Informatics of Singapore, they were just on the verge of collapsing when I came.

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We still don't think we are good enough

This is from the article, Ghana: People Just Like U.S. Have Gone to the Moon, in the Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra) by Appiah Kusi Adomako about Ghana's slow development rate.

Our contemporaries such as India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore have become technological giants.

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