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There was something a bit unusual about Lee Kuan Yew's annual Chinese New Year speech this year. The words of Lee, Singapore's former Prime Minister and founding father, are heeded by the public, because they provide a road map for the city-state's economic development. Hewing to custom, Lee spoke dryly of free-trade agreements and strengthening economic ties with the region. But then he started talking about art exhibitions, jazz bands, museums and alfresco dining. In fact, eating outdoors was mentioned no fewer than three times as Lee laid out the government's vision...
...developer Starwood's internationally known St. Regis line of upscale properties, these 173 luxury flats sold out quickly at record prices after hitting the market last June. When the St. Regis and its sister hotel, located next door, are completed in 2008, they'll rise over an upgraded Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping district
...halt behind a long line of trucks and buses belching diesel fumes into the warm night air. The cause of the holdup: an army truck lying mangled in a roadside ditch, another victim, said one of the hundreds of onlookers, of the treacherous narrow and winding roads in this northeast corner of the country. Up ahead, soldiers were hammering steel pins into the hard earth to winch the wrecked vehicle up onto the road. The scene was chaotic. A few cars had managed to wend their way through the crush of traffic and were trying to slide under...
...Fixing problems is difficult in a democracy, argue Indian officials. True, compared to Beijing, which can decide to build a road today and start on it tomorrow, Indian authorities have to consult and win over the people. Many politicians use democracy, however, not to ensure that development is better than China's but as an excuse for inefficiency, incompetence and corruption. Indians who go to China for the first time return awed by its incredible transformation, and are strangely quiet when you ask if they believe India could soon be its equal...
...Both forms of bloodshed are preoccupying themes for the English director Michael Winterbottom. His 2006 movie The Road to Guantanamo is in part a straightforward documentary of three British nationals who were held and abused for two years in the U.S. detention center (before being released with no charges or apologies), and partly a re-enactment of the trio's plight. In his new docudrama A Mighty Heart, he has enlisted the star power of Angelina Jolie (and her partner Brad Pitt as producer) to re-create the ordeal of Mariane Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl-the Wall Street Journal...