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Heck, let's give him six whacks of the cane...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Anyone For Caning? | 5/6/1994 | See Source »

...between East and West about human rights. Several large Asian countries, China among them, argue that the U.S. has no business criticizing their own, equally legitimate values. But Japan stresses majority rights too. So does Hong Kong. Neither is watering its economic miracle with the blood from a bamboo cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whipping Boy | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...newest whipping-boy of our righteous press. As we've all heard ad nauseam, an 18-year old American named Michael Fay has been condemned by Singapore's highest court to four months in prison a $2,600 fine and six lashes with a moistened rattan cane--all for the rather petty crime of vandalizing some automobiles...

Author: By Alec Permison, | Title: Beating Back Inhumanity | 4/26/1994 | See Source »

Moreover, serious assaults, as measured by the statistics, go beyond the restricted application of rattan cane, and include beatings shootings and stabbings...

Author: By Alec Permison, | Title: Beating Back Inhumanity | 4/26/1994 | See Source »

...hope you'll visit soon. Just remember when you get here that no chewing gum is permitted, and on the subway from the airport to my house, under no circumstances should you eat or drink anything. After all, you wouldn't want to end up with a cane on your smooth, unscarred, American tuches. But I'm sure you'll understand the inconvenience. Because you understand that in Singapore, we care about law and order. Talk to you soon, and be careful on those American streets! Your content...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Singapore's Teenage Pinata | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

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