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Singapore's stated goal of updating its political system in time for the 2011 elections should include revamping laws, policies, and practices that fail to comply with international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2011. The 649-page report, Human Rights Watch's 21st annual... 

Singapore’s inflation rate last month rose to the highest level since December 2008, adding pressure on the central bank to damp price gains by allowing greater currency appreciation. The consumer price index increased 4.6 percent in December from a year earlier, after climbing 3.8 percent in November, the Department of Statistics... 

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...