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...strength of his argument does not rest only on other nations' failures. Above all, it is bolstered by Singapore's success. For as any visitor can attest, the scale of what Lee and his colleagues have achieved by applying his principles - in what Singaporean academic and fiction writer Catherine Lim has described as "an authoritarian, no-nonsense manner which has little use for sentiment" - is simply astonishing...
...ARRESTED. LIM DONG WON, 71, and SHIN GUNN, 64, former heads of South Korea's intelligence agency, on charges of illegal wiretapping during the 1998-2002 presidency of Kim Dae Jung; in Seoul. The spy chiefs allegedly snooped on 1,800 South Koreans, including prominent businessmen, politicians and journalists. They deny the charges. The so-called "x-files" scandal, which first came to light in July, prompted the September resignation of Hong Seok Hyun, South Korea's ambassador to the U.S., after a transcript emerged of him allegedly discussing illegal campaign financing in the 1997 presidential election. Although prosecutors...
...CASEY LIM Hong Kong...
...laboratories. That is a drastic step, but it is necessary for disease prevention. If governments do not wish to do that, they should concentrate the slaughter of poultry in a few (very few) regional slaughterhouses to reduce contact between chickens and humans. The time to act is now. Casey Lim Hong Kong...
...Lim's composition can seem an aural puzzle, that is its point. The composer loves the way music can offer up its secrets slowly over time, performance by performance. "No one can know everything about it," she says. "That's why we play Beethoven." Come July, Lim will give up more of her secrets at a workshop for the Contemporary Music Festival in Sydney. Part of her mission will be to teach audiences how to listen. "That's one of the issues of new music," she says. "What are you listening for? It could be about the way the clarinet...