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Singapore's founding leader Lee Kwan Yew predicts that it would take China at least 20 years to become a technology powerhouse. In an interview in the latest issue of U.S. magazine Business Week, Lee said China is "still behind the U.S. They have to put up a stealth fighter, put a man into space. That's a prodigious effort on... 

By Rachel Chang, Straits Times LIKE generations of Singaporeans past, young voters rank the cost of living as the issue most likely to sway their vote in the coming polls. These voters, aged 21 to 34, also prize bread-and-butter issues such as jobs and housing over and above intangibles like 'freedom of expression', according... 

Veteran opposition leader Chiam See Tong from the Singapore People's Party said he feels 'encouraged' by the reactions of residents in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, where he will be leading a team there to contest in the coming general election. Bishan-Toa Payoh, helmed by DPM Wong Kan Seng, has not seen an electoral contest for more...