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...been killed. SOUTHEAST ASIA Conspiracy Theory Two governments announced details of the threat posed by a group that wants to set up an Islamic state in the region. Singapore said that some of the 21 suspected Muslim militants it arrested in August had staked out the city-state's Changi Airport, a U.S. naval vessel, chemical plants and a bar popular with U.S. military personnel. The suspects were all Singaporeans, members of the militant group Jemaah Islamiah. In the Philippines, a jailed Indonesian operative of Jemaah Islamiah told police of plans to bomb Western targets as part...
...doesn’t seem to think it has a large margin of error. Soon after Singapore became independent, the government decided that one of the best ways to attract business would be to establish a top-class airline and airport—and today, Singapore Airlines and Changi Airport consistently rate among the best in the world...
...Singaporean cabinet includes a minister of horticulture, whose job is to ensure that there are as many flowering plants as possible throughout the city; as a result, there are beautiful flowers throughout Singapore all year, and the main highway running from Changi airport to the business district has approximately 12 miles of flowers running down the center. And each year you own a car in Singapore, the tax levied on it increases, so that shiny new cars displace ratty old ones on the road...
...also tried hard to persuade Singapore not to carry out the executions of the marines. The Singapore government, however, stuck to its decision, pointing out that the act of sabotage had resulted in the deaths of three persons. And so, in a cold, misty dawn at Singapore's Changi Prison last month, the two were hanged...
Such stomach-turning reality never seems mere sensationalism, for Forbes says all there is to say about a fly-infested pesthole where honor gives way to hunger, where blatant homosexualism can be shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world...