Word: faye
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Seeking to put a positive spin on the caning of Michael Fay, the American teen convicted of vandalism, Singapore authorities released this informative diagram in a government-affiliated paper...
...Singagpore Government's statement on the condition of Michael Fay, the American recently caned for vandalism, as reported by Reuters yesterday...
Despite pleas for clemency from the White House, Singapore not only appears determined to carry out its caning sentence on American teenager Michael Fay, but is planning the same punishment for another youth. A second American, who was arrested for vandalism along with Fay, is still on trial. Singapore's Senior Minister and predominant political personality, Lee Kuan Yew, 70, recently addressed this and other issues of U.S. policy with managing editor James R. Gaines, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, Southeast Asia bureau chief William Dowell and senior correspondent Sandra Burton. Excerpts...
TIME: Is such punishment for Fay necessary...
...circumstances of this affair -- evidently no Singaporean has ever been punished under the Vandalism Act for defacing private property -- suggest that Singapore has used Fay as an unwilling point man in a growing quarrel 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...