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TANG LIANG HONG The lawyer and Workers' Party politician fled Singapore, citing death threats after losing a bid for Parliament in 1997. He was also sued for $2.9 million after he accused Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and 10 other PAP leaders, who referred to him as "anti-Christian," of lying...
...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...
...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...
...bizarre "zig-zag theory," based on the notion that cutting interest rates, then doubling them, then slashing them again will reduce inflation. His inexperience petrifies investors. "Even if you zero out the political risk, economically you still have a mess here," says Matthew Pecot, head of research with GK Goh Securities in Jakarta. "Give it two weeks or so, and I think the students will be back out there protesting against Habibie...
Mondale's mission stemmed from growing concern that Suharto could drive Indonesia into a collapse that would flood its neighbors with refugees. One appeal came from Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who called Clinton to urge the U.S. to intervene. That helped trigger a Feb. 18 White House session in which Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin proposed Mondale, a former ambassador to Japan, as Clinton's envoy. Participants agreed that Mondale had the clout to pressure Suharto while reassuring him that the U.S. remains his friend...