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...Thaksin, the south is the problem that won't go away. Since he came to power nearly four years ago, Thaksin, in the mold of other Asian leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, has stressed economic growth as the key policy objective of his government. The economy is still likely to grow nicely in 2004?Thaksin told TIME he thought a rate of 6.5% was achievable?but it will not reach the level of 8% he predicted at the beginning of the year. In his interview with TIME, Thaksin blamed the reduced forecast...
...took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" LEE KUAN YEW, Singapore's elder statesman, recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests...
...eldest son of the country's founding patriarch, Lee Kuan Yew, had plenty of reasons to be happy. After 14 years as heir apparent, he was finally assuming a job for which in many ways he had been preparing all his life. His predecessor, Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister since 1990, has handed Lee a remarkable legacy. A few days earlier, the government announced that GDP growth for the first half of the year was a booming 10%?a signal that Singapore is finally shaking off a malaise sparked by the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and extended by last...
...RECOVERING. LEE KUAN YEW, 80, Singapore's founding father, after prostate surgery; in Singapore. Lee was listed in stable condition. His surgery came after his wife suffered a stroke in London last month. Although he stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990, Lee still wields significant influence as Senior Minister...
...NAMED. Lee Hsien Loong, 51, eldest son of Singapore's founding leader Lee Kuan Yew, to succeed Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong; in Singapore. Goh announced his successor, calling Lee "young and vigorous and in tune with the times." Goh said he would like his successor to have at least two years' experience as Prime Minister before facing a general election...