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...They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life." BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service...
...most popular restaurants on the Tengkat Tong Shin row, Sao Nam, tel: (60-3) 2144 1225, serves up southern Vietnamese cuisine with a contemporary twist. Diners can choose the alfresco area on ground level, or troop to the dining room upstairs, scattered with retro Indo-Chinese furniture...
...tapas and fat Monte Cristo cigars? Then head to this relaxed venue, perhaps the most chilled-out bar in the Changkat Bukit Bintang area. French windows let in a suitably sultry breeze. tel: (60-3) 2142 6368 Sao Nam: One of the most popular restaurants on the Tengkat Tong Shin row, Sao Nam serves up southern Vietnamese cuisine with a contemporary twist. Diners can choose the alfresco area on ground level, or troop to the dining room upstairs, scattered with retro Indo-Chinese furniture...
...eldest son of the country's founding patriarch, Lee Kuan Yew, had plenty of reasons to be happy. After 14 years as heir apparent, he was finally assuming a job for which in many ways he had been preparing all his life. His predecessor, Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister since 1990, has handed Lee a remarkable legacy. A few days earlier, the government announced that GDP growth for the first half of the year was a booming 10%?a signal that Singapore is finally shaking off a malaise sparked by the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and extended by last...
...found a way around this: become Singaporean. The bank, which currently has four branches in the country, plans to spend about $880 million by year-end to incorporate as Citibank Singapore Ltd. Citibank wants "to grow its international business and to be embedded in the local community," says Sophia Tong, a spokeswoman for Citibank in Singapore. Citibank has already localized in Malaysia and Australia and plans to do so in Hong Kong. But its status as the first foreign bank to go local in Singapore gives it a competitive edge: it can negotiate with local banks for ATM access...