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...Nelly Sindayen to witness the meeting.) While more than a dozen businessmen and politicians listened, Saycon phoned a person he identified as a U.S. official in Washington. "You will still be our friend, not China," Saycon assured the man. Saycon then phoned someone he identified as Brigadier General Danilo Lim. Over the speakerphone, Lim said it was "all systems go." A military contingent would march to a shrine in Manila where the 20th anniversary of the People Power revolution (which toppled Ferdinand Marcos) was to be celebrated. There, the military men would meet a group of Catholic bishops...
...plot fizzled when Lim tried to enlist the support of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Generosa Senga, who instead took Lim into custody. On Friday Arroyo declared a state of emergency. Neither Saycon nor anyone else at the meeting was immediately arrested...
...itinerary for the HCAP participants visiting Taiwan during spring break.A freshman at the National University of Singapore, Brandon Lin, said he was also impressed by the University ambience. “Harvard is really more steeped in culture and school spirit because students live on campus,” Lim said. “You don’t see that in Singapore because not that many people live on campus.”The visiting students also said they appreciated the chance to meet each other, and that the trip has affected the way they view the United States...
...merely causing more hardship and suffering among the very people the West wishes to help, and forcing refugees to flee Burma's borders into neighboring countries. Sanctions are tools without teeth. Surely engagement and the promotion of a market economy would prove to be much more feasible. Edward Lim Singapore...
...abroad. The reaction of ordinary Singaporeans when questioned about politics or Lee and his family is telling. Without them quite knowing it, there is often an instinctive lowering of the voice and a glance over the shoulder. "People are still too frightened to talk about the taboo subjects," Catherine Lim wrote in a lengthy essay published in the Straits Times in May. There is no effective political opposition to the PAP, and few voices prepared to speak out in favor of wider democratic debate. "I think [Lee] taught us fear," says theater director Ong Keng Sen. Lim argues that...