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...Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean Prime Minister, announcing that the city-state will allow bungee jumping
...CONFIRMED. GOH KUN, 65, veteran politician and former mayor of Seoul whose anticorruption image earned him the nickname "Mr. Clean"; as Prime Minister; in Seoul. Over the past four decades, Goh has served almost every administration and held various posts, including Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister...
...MALAYSIAN BILLIONAIRE. The biggest winner to date in Indian gaming is surely Lim Goh Tong, the 85-year-old Chinese-Malaysian businessman who bankrolled Foxwoods in northeastern Connecticut. Foxwoods, the country's largest gaming venue, is actually a constellation of five casinos about 10 miles down the road from the Mohegan Sun. On an average day, 40,000 people pass through what was a quiet, mostly rural patch of New England...
...security officials in Southeast Asia as they assess the likelihood of future attacks and formulate defense plans. Australian police said on Nov. 28 that the five-member team suspected of carrying out the Paddy's attack had formed a suicide pact (although only Iqbal died). Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said indications of suicide elements among Muslim extremists in the region posed "grave challenges" to governments trying to contain the terrorist threat. The day after Goh's warning, suicide car-bombers killed at least 15 people in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa...
...Such concerns were highlighted earlier this year when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed that Mas Selamat Kastari, the "most dangerous" of the 12 or so members of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah cell who escaped arrest and fled the country, had been planning an attempt to crash a plane into Singapore's Changi Airport. The airport is now reportedly protected by anti-aircraft missiles, as are the huge refinery facilities on the island's southwest section of Jurong, where multinationals such as Shell and Exxon Mobil maintain large facilities. In mid-October Singapore deployed units of its armored division around...