Word: chee
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...value. The Global Crossing bailout would hand the partnership majority ownership in a state-of-the-art, globe-spanning telecommunications infrastructure for an outlay equal to less than one-tenth the cost of building it. "I think at that price it's very attractive as an investment," says To Chee Eng, a telecoms analyst for Gartner. "Global Crossing went out and built an enormous network...
...Chee had much more on his mind than just winning or losing a seat in Parliament. He had already had to apologize three times in public for remarks he made about Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He had agreed to pay as yet unspecified damages. Given the large awards handed out by the courts in similar cases over the past two decades that had driven other opposition leaders into bankruptcy, Chee had good reason to be apprehensive. He had been at the receiving end of defamation suits himself. The 39-year-old neuropsychologist lost...
...They just want to kill you off," Chee said grimly, sitting still for the moment as a car carried him from his whirlwind campaigning back to the headquarters of his Singapore Democratic Party, three small rooms up a narrow staircase in the Little India district. He started to say more, then checked himself. "You never know what is going to be defamatory and what's not. I'm interested in talking about the issues, not personal attacks. But they have no qualms calling me names...
...During the campaign Lee described Chee as a cheat, liar and fraud backed by "foreign manipulators." But it was Chee who was threatened with a lawsuit, after he alleged on Oct. 28 that Goh and Lee had secretly lent $10.6 billion to former Indonesian President Suharto. That charge implied that the Prime Minister and Senior Minister were "dishonest and unfit for office," lawyers representing Goh and Lee said, according to local newspapers. Chee backed down almost immediately and issued two statements of apology, which were deemed "insincere" and "half-hearted" by senior ruling party officials. A third apology read...
...Chee, the end of the campaign brings only more uncertainty: How much will the Prime Minister's lawyers ask him to pay in damages? Chee says he will keep fighting, no matter how high the cost. He cites the veteran opposition leader Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam as his in-spiration. But to most observers, the 76-year-old Jeyaretnam is more like a cautionary tale: he was declared bankrupt and removed from Parliament ear-lier this year, after failing to pay his defamation bills...