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(WSJ, 16 Mar) - Singapore’s founding statesman, Lee Kuan Yew, has long been critical of the profligacy of Western governments, even before the recent debt crises in the U.S. and the Eurozone brought the world’s financial system to its knees. But now he’s singing a slightly different tune and advising some investors –... 

In Inner Mongolia a new city stands largely empty. This city, Ordos, suggests that the great Chinese building boom, which did so much to fuel the country's astonishing economic growth, is over. Is a bubble about to burst? (China, 17 Mar) - A huge statue of the mighty warrior Genghis Khan presides over Genghis Khan Plaza... 

(Bloomberg, 17 Mar) -  The fiance of a Standard Chartered Plc (STAN) private banker who was detained in China days before the couple planned to wed in Singapore said police barred him from seeing her after he refused to stop speaking out about the case. Jason David Tan, 34, had been scheduled to meet with Wu Yidian Eden in...