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TianJin China Here, where China and Singapore are trying to build the perfect city, dozens of orange and yellow cranes spin while five wind turbines stand still. An old man in worn black slippers carts a white sink in a rudimentary wheelbarrow; another fellow drives a decrepit little red tractor with a small payload of red... 

Today's (21 January 2011) Straits Times headlines "Will PAP last?". This is how MM Lee sees it: " If the decline in standards happens gradually, an opposition of quality will be launched. The public can sense it." - MM Lee He does not see a problem for the PAP in the next 10 or 20 years. The issue for voters, as he frames it,... 

In “Hard Truths,” a book recently released by the editors of The Straits Times newspaper containing a series of interviews with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s longest-standing prime minister provides a few choice words on political opposition. “No, we are not preventing competition. What we are preventing...