This is from the article, Immorality of bushfires, by Gregory Clark in Japan Times.
Societies have several ways to hold themselves together and make people behave. One is strict Taliban-style punishments, with fear as the binding agent. Another is more ideological, cerebral even, with religion (Islam), post-revolutionary legitimacy (China, Vietnam), nationalism or good, intelligent government (Singapore, Scandinavia) as the binding agents.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, My granddaddy Deng Xiaopeng, in China Daily (page 22) by Chen Jie.
A year later, she returned to Beijing and set up JoYa, a PR and fundraising company, with her friend Jocelyn Ang from Singapore. Their first project was a charity gala ball, an event she had become familiar with in the United States.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Teach your kids Mandarin, in The Straits Times.
WHEN asked for his advice on how to survive the financial crisis, global investment guru Jim Rogers often tells his interlocutors: 'Teach your children Mandarin.' The 66-year-old financial commentator has practised what he preaches, in 2007 selling his mansion in New York and moving his family to Singapore.Find Singapore here.
'I am (in Asia) because this is the exciting part of the world. This is the future, and I want my children to grow up knowing Asia, and knowing things Chinese,' he said during an interview from his exercise bike.
Indeed, he said his five-year-old daughter is now a fluent Mandarin speaker.
He had thought about moving to China or Hong Kong, but decided against it because of air pollution, adding: 'I don't want to breathe Hong Kong air.'
This is from the article, Singapore's star rises as Switzerland stumbles, by Neil Chatterjee and John O'Donnell in the International Herald Tribune.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said this month such scrutiny in the West could lead to more European money flowing into the country, a hot talking point in the industry.Find Singapore here.
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But European cash comes with the risk that Singapore too could be targeted in the crackdown on tax havens. "I expect Singapore to come under pressure, too," Prime Minister Lee said.
This is from the article, Singapore model more suited to city, The Times of India about Mumbai's administrators now feel Singapore's model is more suited for its redevelopment as a world-class city.
Before working on the plan, the experts studied the concept plan prepared a few decades ago for Singapore, which is considered the most successful city in the world for effectively implementing its vision document.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore: An Island of Commodities, in CommoditiesOnline.
For the record, Singapore is the sixth wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita. And soon, the world's most efficient city state may become the global hub for commodities trading.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, China Sees Singapore As a Model for Progress, by Nicholas D. Kristor in The New York Times in 1992.
One of the most illuminating statements he [Mr. Deng, Xiaoping] made was this: Singapore's social order is rather good. Its leaders exercise strict management. We should learn from their experience, and we should do a better job than they do.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, City-state a role model for the world, in The Star Online by Seah Chiang Nee about the many merit of Singapore.
Well-known author Catherine Lim painted this possible scenario for Singapore in 2030: “China rises to superpower status as the US declines and is in a position to offer an alternative to the discredited Western liberal democracy.Find Singapore here.
“In its skilful blend of authoritarianism and capitalism, its (China's) system is not unlike Singapore’s.
“If Singapore and China become thus twinned on the world stage, the Lee Kuan Yew model of governance will have achieved an international acceptance that the PAP could never have dreamed of.”
This is from the article, Cyclone Nargis May Bring Change In Its Destructive Wake, Georgie Anne Geyer in Yahoo!News.
In Southeast Asia, where China has accomplished a 10 percent growth rate for several years, where Singapore has become the model of development for the world, and where countries such as once ethnically torn Malaysia have found ways to thrive, Myanmar is more and more an anomaly.Find Singapore here.
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.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Are product patents anti-consumer?, by Business Standard Reporter in New Delhi.
India is the second-largest talent pool in the world. Yet, investments by global companies continue to gravitate to China, Hong Kong and Singapore. India received $8 billion in FDI last year as against China's $63 billion!Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, FEW, POOR AND SCATTERED - India has a stake in ethnic peace and stability in Malaysia, in The Telegraph by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray about the situation of Indians living in Malaysia.
The Chinese who comprise 23.7 per cent of Malaysia’s 27 million population are also perturbed by the drift from secularism, which alone can unite a multi-racial state in contented peace. The election announcement during the Chinese new year celebrations was seen as an insult. UMNO’s 2005 general assembly — when the party’s youth chief brandished a traditional Malay dagger (keris), threatening to bathe it in Chinese blood — awakened memories of the horrendous 1969 race riots. But the Chinese have weightage of numbers (they are in a majority in 26 constituencies), wealth (several millionaires), and political power (Penang state has a Chinese chief minister). They also have China and Singapore (especially Lee Kuan Yew) behind them. Indians are helpless in contrast.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore ranked top Reit market in Asia-Pacific, in lushhomemedia.com sourced from Business Times about REIT markets.
The findings also showed that China, India and Vietnam are ranked as the top three hot property growth markets in Asia-Pacific for the next five years. Singapore, which ranked fourth, was the highest placed established Reit market. Good growth is also expected in Malaysia.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, "Mumbai helpline counsels AIDS patients from Dubai, China", by Prashant K. Nanda in Thaindian News.
“I have tested HIV positive, how will I face my family?” asks a voice from Dubai on telephone. From a clean basement in a dingy building here, a counsellor answers the question. Counsellors at Population Service International (PSI) also guide AIDS patients from China, Singapore and the Gulf on how to live a better life.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Robot arms race seen underway, where an expert calls for international discussion on robotic weapons.
Several nations are developing robot weapons, with the United States in the lead, ...
Canada, South Korea, South Africa, Singapore, Israel, China, some European countries, Russia and India are also getting in on the robot-weapons act, Sharkey added, with these last two developing unmanned aerial combat vehicles.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, The New Silk Road and Ibn Battuta, in The Daily Reckoning by Chris Mayer about shipping.
Shipping companies are actively pursuing new routes. Perhaps through the ice-free Arctic passages, as I've written to you about before. Right now, Singapore is still king. It is the world's largest container port hub. Singapore, sitting in the Strait of Malacca, is the hinge that links Asia's shipping lanes with Europe. (I'd love to get to Singapore sometime in 2008.) Some of the excess may bleed into airfreight. China alone plans 48 new airports over the next decade, to add to its current total of 130. It's been called the "Silk Road in the sky."Find Singapore here.
