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This is from the article, Asian students top performers in maths, science, in Sify news.

Hong Kong SAR and Singapore were found to be the top performing countries in maths at the fourth grade level, followed by Chinese Taipei and Japan.
The report also said that Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, England, Latvia, and the Netherlands also performed very well.
As regards mathematics achievement at the eighth grade, the researchers wrote that Chinese Taipei, Korea, and Singapore were the top performing countries, followed by Hong Kong SAR and Japan. There was a substantial gap in average mathematics achievement between the countries.
Hungary, England, the Russian Federation, and the United States performed similarly.
In science achievement at the fourth grade, Singapore turned out to be the top performing country, followed by Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong SAR. Japan, the Russian Federation, Latvia, England, the United States, Hungary, Italy, and Kazakhstan also performed very well.
At the eighth grade in science, Singapore and Chinese Taipei again had the highest average achievement, followed by Japan and Korea.
England, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hong Kong SAR, and the Russian Federation also performed well.

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The exception

From the article, At this rate the world’s financial architecture will have been remade before November 15th, by Brad Setser in Counciloil Foreign Relations.

First, all the countries that got access to the Fed’s swap lines are US allies, and all except Singapore are democracies. Russia may be part of the G-8 but it is outside of this club.

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Still a model?

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.

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Nature is better developed than concrete

This is from the article, A tidal wave of humanity, in Independent Online.

Cities like Singapore and Busan, South Korea, show it is possible "to grow at breakneck speed without undermining nature," said Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity.

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Shopping around

This is from the article, NYC Shops Cater to Euro-Toting Tourists, by Eva Woo in BusinessWeek in relation to the recent decline of USD.

For economists, the tourism boom also drives home the broader forces at work behind the dollar's decline. Those same forces have led to a surge in foreign investment in the U.S. Big financial houses such as Citigroup (C) and Merrill Lynch (MER) recently raised billions from government funds in Kuwait, Singapore, Korea, and elsewhere. Foreign purchases of U.S. assets last year set a record of $405.7 billion, according to Thomson Financial (TOC), up 92% from $210.9 billion in 2006. The dollar's decline is "part of a broader adjustment needed to bring the U.S.'s trade deficit down," says Brad Setser, an international economics researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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An approach to tackle manpower shortage

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.

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