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...MAAD's wallet-friendly prices attract a healthy crowd of tourists and locals, but it aims to be more than just a fun diversion for the mall-weary. It also wants to cultivate Singapore's visual-arts scene. "We call ourselves the MAADsters," says main organizer Shannon Ong. "It's a way for like-minded people to mingle." Ong hopes that the market can start to include solo exhibitions for promising young artists. "For a lot of artists in Singapore there's no way for them to prove themselves to the galleries," she says. "So we want MAAD...
...humans, we all want revenge. But I ask myself, 'If I do it, how will that help me?'" LA-ONG LAIJIAN village leader in Lampaya, southern Thailand, where the escalating conflict with Muslim insurgents has prompted civilians to take up arms. In recent days suspected insurgents stopped a commuter van in Yala province and killed eight passengers, while three students died in an attack on an Islamic school in Songkhla province
...according to Ong, assets under management in Singapore are growing by 20% a year. Growth rates like that make it the fastest-growing private-banking market in the world, says Scott of BCG. And the world's largest financial institutions?among them HSBC, UBS and Citigroup?are expanding their Singapore presence. Credit Suisse, for example, currently employs roughly 500 private bankers in Singapore, more than any place outside Switzerland?and the bank has plans to hire 100 more this year. Bank Julius Baer, the venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore...
...from within its own region. And [Singapore] is doing that tremendously." For now, though, it still has a long way to go before it can claim to be a wealth-management capital on a par with Switzerland. Assets under management at Singapore private banks total about $200 billion, says Ong Chong Tee, deputy managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. That compares with $3.71 trillion in Switzerland...
...government and its people embrace disciplined measures can the nation achieve lasting peace and prosperity?a new People Power. Who knows? Within 20 years, the nation might just emancipate itself from its recurrent quagmires and regain its rightful place in Asia, if not the world. Michael Victor G. Ong Santa Rosa, the Philippines