Word: kuan
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...were simply too high to take a chance on unbridled freedom: potential unrest in China, the specter of communism in Indonesia, the risk of being overshadowed by a neighbor like Singapore, the peril of racial conflagration in Malaysia. Through death, ouster or abdication, the Deng Xiaopings, Suhartos and Lee Kuan Yews have passed from the scene. And now?if he goes ahead with his drawn-out exit strategy?comes Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's turn, perhaps closing the chapter on long-serving Asian leaders who, by sheer force of their personalities, transformed their nations...
...years behind bars. ARRESTED. CHEE SOON JUAN, 39, leader of the Singapore Democratic Party, for attempting to hold a Labor Day rally outside the presidential palace without an official permit; in Singapore. In 2001, Chee was sued by Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew for defamation...
...Next is only the messenger. Government officials are ultimately intent on muzzling who they believe is the report's Deep Throat: former NSB chief cashier Col. Liu Kuan-chun, who has been accused of absconding in 2000 with over $5 million in bureau funds and a number of confidential files. Authorities fear that Liu, believed to be in the U.S., has revealed to Next only a tiny portion of what he knows...
...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...
...were too poor for a sexual revolution. Or too stubbornly conservative. Or tangled in political ideologies. One thing they all had in common: they were tightly controlled by their stodgy, patriarchal leaders. And it always seemed the last thing on the minds of men like Deng Xiaoping or Lee Kuan Yew was getting a little non-government-regulated action...