Intelligent government

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.

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Hot but not yet boiling

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.

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