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...KUAN YEW Singapore strongman wins settlement from Int'l Herald Trib for implying he's...litigious...
...largely destitute. Half of Vietnamese children suffer from chronic malnutrition. The country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam as being in the "Twilight Zone," somewhere between a Stalinist command economy and a Western-style market economy, with only a hazy notion of how to complete...
...only appears determined to carry out its caning sentence on American teenager Michael Fay, but is planning the same punishment for another youth. A second American, who was arrested for vandalism along with Fay, is still on trial. Singapore's Senior Minister and predominant political personality, Lee Kuan Yew, 70, recently addressed this and other issues of U.S. policy with managing editor James R. Gaines, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, Southeast Asia bureau chief William Dowell and senior correspondent Sandra Burton. Excerpts...
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew calls for moral accountability...
...sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic virtues...