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...decidedly Renaissance Siddhartha?stems from an autodidact's caprice. As an artist, he has felt his way to artistic nirvana through experimentations in brushwork, ink tones, language and the magic that happens when all three are harmoniously combined. He graduated with a degree in English literature from Singapore's Nanyang University before becoming an artist and holding his first exhibition at the city-state's National Library in 1973. He converted to Buddhism that year, and his spiritual epiphany made him give up painting for four years, when he felt that enlightenment was more fulfilling than art. He picked...
...already has distance-learning partnerships with the University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technical University, also in Singapore. MIT also now has a $20 million alliance with the Ford Motor Company, and a $30 million alliance with bio-tech giant Amgen...
...Shanghai's inner ring road, and the North-to-South Elevated Expressway cutting through downtown. About 20% to 30% will derive from a joint venture that makes chassis, front suspensions, rear axles, steering and shock absorbers for the Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co. The third revenue stream is produced by Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., a Hong Kong manufacturer of the popular Double Happiness cigarettes, which last year had sales of $141.6 million. Responsible for as much as 80% of SIHL profits in 1996, Double Happiness will contribute only 20% to 30% this year. The decline is actually good news. It stems...
...many citizens and outside observers, Singapore closely resembles a police state. There is an absence of democratic freedoms such as freedom of the press and freedom of assembly and organization. After closing the Eastern Sun and Singapore Herald newspapers by cutting off finances, and arresting the editors of the Nanyang Siang Pau, the government implemented a new Press Act in 1974. Under this new Act, the government controls over 75 per cent of the voting power in all newspaper companies...
Married. James Pusey, 26, second son of Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey, currently teaching Chinese at Harvard; and Anne Chi-fang Wang, 20, mainland China-born daughter of a historian at Singapore's Nanyang University; in Cambridge, Mass...