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...have flashing lights and dancing girls on the fa?ade and next door to that you have banks and the banking and financial center, I'm not sure we will feel happy about it." LEE HSIEN LOONG, Singapore's Prime Minister, on strict guidelines for two proposed casinos in the city-state. Las Vegas impresario Steve Wynn has accused the government of micromanaging bids to build the casinos...
...some observers, the list of 20 films in competition this year for the Palme d'Or - the Golden Palm, Cannes' top prize - may represent the second rank of world directors. The names Michael Haneke and Hiner Saleem, Hou Hsaio-hsien and Wang Xiaoshuai, the Dardenne brothers and the Larrieu brothers, may not light up the marquee in your movie awareness. The prospect a new Lars von Trier (Manderlay, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe and Danny Glover) may make you squirm...
...served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong as a "true Singaporean...
...want Singapore to have the X factor." LEE HSIEN LOONG, Singapore's Prime Minister, after the city-state approved two casino projects to give it more "buzz...
...ASIA SINGAPORE: Lee Hsien-Loong is only the third P.M. in 35 years...