Lee Kuan Yew

Yale Has Gone to Singapore, But Can It Come Back?

Jim Sleeper | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Yale-Nus, Chan Heng Chee, Pericles Lewis, Shaun Tan, Richard Levin, Jill Campbell, Michael Fischer, Charles Bailyn, Kay Kuok, Linda Koch Lorimer, Lee Kuan Yew, Luka Kalandarishvili, Yitzhak Rabin, College News
Jim Sleeper

Yale University sustained such a college for more than 300 years and, through it, the American republic, and for much of the time the republic led the world, but now Yale's captains have bound it contractually to an authoritarian corporate city state.

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8 Populations, 4 Methods

Robert David Steele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budget, Design, Bio-Mimicy, Democracy, Ecological Economics, Policy, China, Wild Cards, Brazil, Iran, Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Indonesia, Venezuela, Demography, Russia, India, True Cost, Virtual Cabient, Politics News
Robert David Steele

Minister-Mentor Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has said that demography, not democracy, is the defining element of the future, and I agree with him. This ...

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New York Times Pays Singapore Leaders Over $100K For Calling Them 'Political Dynasty'

AP | ALEX KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goh Chok Tong, New York Times, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore, New York Times Singapore, Philip Bowring, Lee Hsien Loong, Media News

SINGAPORE — The New York Times Co. has apologized and agreed to pay Singapore's prime minister and his two predecessors some 160,000 Singapore d...

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Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth

Dana Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tourism, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore, Shopping, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Travel, Chicken Rice, Singapore Sling, Style News
Dana Kennedy

Singapore is a lively, ultra-modern nation, which feels like a souped-up, Philip K. Dick sci-fi version of the new American Dream. Except it's in Southeast Asia.

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The War on Terrorism Ends; and the Winner is... China

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Apec, Asean, Greater Middle East, South Korea, Condoleeza Rice, George W Bush, Obama, China, Japan, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The American neglect of the Asia-Pacific region and its policy concerns has not only alienated its friends in the region. It has also hurt long term U.S. economic and strategic interests.

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Obama's Human Rights Opportunity in Singapore

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Assembly, Apec, Chee Soon Juan, Democracy, Canada, Obama, Autocracy, Defamation, Singapore Democratic Party, Amnesty International, Freedom of Speech, People's Action Party, Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, Human Rights, Asean, Freedom of Expression, Harper, World News
Robert Amsterdam

Any American president should be horrified by the conditions under which opponents of the regime in Singapore have been harassed. The APEC summit presents an opportunity to set the record straight.

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Singapore Economy in Free Fall Disaster

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Economy, Singapore, Economic Crisis, Global Economic Crisis, World News
Sheldon Filger

With the data that has recently emerged on the Q1 performance of Singapore's economy, it may be time to change the national anthem to "Backwards, Singapore." The numbers are that bad.

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