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...admired for its efficient government, first-world infrastructure, solid educational system-a real plus if it is to attract high-income talent from overseas-and clean, crime-free streets. Singapore is regularly named in regional surveys as one of the best places in Asia for expats to live. Per capita income last year was $30,900, equal to that of Japan, and the economy is popping; GDP grew 7.9% last year...
...after the government in 2002 ended a longstanding gambling monopoly and touched off construction of a spate of new casinos, resorts and residential projects. Singapore's actions are having a similar effect. Development is booming and property prices have been soaring. Upscale home prices that averaged about $8,500 per sq m two years ago are expected to reach more than $21,300 per sq m this year. Developers are piling into the market. Beyond Sentosa, several new luxury residential projects have gone up around the city in the past year, and units are selling out at record prices within...
More than 3,400 Americans have died in Iraq since the war began four years ago. That's two per day, a rate that has increased with the "surge" of 30,000 U.S. troops into Baghdad earlier this year. Those forces have moved out of their relatively secure strongholds in the capital and scattered in smaller units into more dangerous neighborhoods to patrol and live. Since the surge began, sectarian violence among Iraqis has declined slightly in Baghdad, but U.S. casualties have increased, as President George W. Bush predicted. So has the frequency of grievous single days when multiple service...
...extreme poverty; the homeless population is guessed at tens of thousands; and more than 100,000 people are considered at risk. Worse, the coalition's same report found Chicago fared pathetically when stacked against other large cities in spending. San Francisco, the study found, spent more than $100 per homeless person; New York invests $37 per capita; Philadelphia, $11; Chicago...
...wake in Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood, I saw a group of old women in black abayas sing threnodies for four hours, egged on by an uncle of the deceased, who said, "Keep crying, I'll pay you more." (The going rate for a group of addadas was $150 per day, plus tips...