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Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2008

In general, are corporates better run than nations?

This is from the article, Final Thoughts on Singapore, in Everything Everywhere blog by Gary Arndt after his second visit to Singapore.

One of the things I came away with was how Singapore, while a country, is run almost like a corporation.

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

"Smart" may be truly stupid

This is from the article, Singapore Medicine, in the blog Stupid Malaysia.

Singapore has not only positioned itself as a financial capital, leading innovator in the arms industry, petroleum processing centre, biotechnological centre. It has now almost emerged as a medical hub. Providing unsurpassed medical treatment and care to well paying patients either from countries where medical treatment are prohibitive and countries in which expertise are lacking.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

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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Sunday, May 11, 2008

A non liberal democracy

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.

“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.”

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

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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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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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