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Reuters- Nov 9, 2012 WASHINGTON- Singapore is showing increased interest in buying Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a top executive with the company said late on Thursday, a week after China unveiled a second stealth fighter called the J-31. Lockheed is building three variants of the stealthy warplane for the... 

(Nov 10) - "You must confess to something so that Lee Kuan Yew can tell the public why you were detained so long," the late Singaporean activist Lim Hock Siew quoted a police interrogator as telling him during his two decades in prison. Thirty years later, similar attempts to coax confessions to non-existent crimes are familiar... 

PHOTO- NYT New York Times- November 6, 2012 SHIFANG, China — Local leaders were all smiles this summer at a groundbreaking ceremony for a vast copper smelting project that seemed like the answer to the chronic unemployment that has plagued this city in northern Sichuan ever since a devastating earthquake in 2008. But within...