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...Barings paid Leeson's dues for the Cricket Club, an old establishment institution for British expatriates in Singapore, but he rarely went there. The Leesons' three-bedroom apartment was part of a low-rise building on neatly manicured grounds in one of Singapore's fashionable neighborhoods, where Tamil and Malay workers come in every morning to mow the lawns, wash the cars and sweep the grounds. But the Leesons took their apartment furnished and barely decorated it, adding almost no personal touches...
...that we are different. I believe Americans are big enough to accept that there are little countries which protect themselves in a different way. We don't deal with criminal behavior the way Americans do. We don't have the concept of "victim of society" either in the Chinese, Malay or Tamil language. This concept has led to a situation where if you kill your mother and father, because you were victims, you are not guilty. If you cut off your husband's penis, it's O.K. But it is not O.K. If we allow...
...Asia's four rapidly developing "Little Dragons" -- along with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong -- Singapore is the smallest and in some ways the most successful. The former British colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula only achieved full independence in 1965, yet it boasts Asia's highest living standard after Japan, an average per capita income of $15,000 (about the same as the U.S.) and by far the world's highest per capita cache of foreign reserves...
...pollution, lush tropical greenery, a mix of modern skyscrapers and colonial-era buildings, the city resembles a clean and efficient theme park; even the subway stations are as spotless and shiny as Disney World. There are no traffic jams, even during rush hours. The multiracial population -- 78% Chinese, 14% Malay, 7% Indian -- uses English widely...
...anonymous source, who is an expert on South East Asian politics, says the Malay government is becoming more fundamentalist. "There is a group of hunters and gatherers on the Malay peninsula, the Orangasli, that have their own religion. I've heard that officials have said, 'Once they become Muslim, our work is done,'" he says...