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...“I am moving back in with my parents because the landlord at the Housing Development Board flat I was renting with a friend lifted the rent from $3,000 per month to $5,000....
...“We will be watching to see how much demand [for micro OLED displays] will increase,” Terushi Shimizu, head of Sony’s semiconductor unit, said last week, adding that “I don’t think we will be aggressive”...
...“Never did I think back then that he would be the next leader of Singapore.”...
...Birdy, by Hung’s founding artistic director Lai Hung-chung, is a sustained duet for Chen I-han and Lee Kuan-ling set to a rhythmic soundtrack by Hsu Chia-wei....
...I would think Wong would want his own mandate to lead,” Bhaskaran said....
...Referring to the point you make in your Big Read (“The doubts over Hong Kong’s future”, December 19) regarding how Hong Kong compares to Singapore, I would add that a market system works best in a...
...Kuan, 35, thinks Lanoba’s grassroots approach means they’ve also influenced a new demographic. “I’ve not been to Europe, but thanks to them I’m definitely going to make a trip to Denmark.”...
...Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey and Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore stand out as top-down modernisers from more recent times....
...I really doubt it.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Taiwanese need to be prepared for China threat / From Kuan-Cheng, Chen Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London, Singapore...
...“This is our soft power, and I see the G20 as a huge success for Brand India.”...
...Referring to Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist philosopher, he said: “I am like Gramsci. I have pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”...
...And the whole idea about Asian values propagated by Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia was very popular then....
...I could not have imagined in such a short period of time that two very important ministers would disappear and without any information,” said Alfred Wu, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of...
...“But I would say September is definitely being closely watched as a dry run for the general election” in 2025....
...“I don’t know who to blame for the economic downturn but all I know is that this year the economy is really bad,” he says. “Lay-offs everywhere.”...
...“I think different diplomats have different styles....
...“I don’t think it will be particularly impactful but at the same time it’s not going to empower Vladimir Putin,” Thompson said....
...Such moves make it “impossible for south-east Asian states to ignore the risks . . . of a cross-Strait conflict”, said Drew Thompson, a visiting senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public...
...Thanks to the late Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore was built on a philosophy of cleanliness from the streets to politics....
...“I think [Blinken] will come to China pretty soon,” said Wu Xinbo, a US expert at Fudan University in Shanghai....
...Deutsche Bank has hired Lim Zi-Kuan, Credit Suisse’s head of mergers and acquisitions for south-east Asia, as co-head of Asia M&A, per Bloomberg....
...In my opinion, we should take on board the example set by Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew when drawing up the political system for that country....
...“Morally, I support [Singapore’s stance on Ukraine],” said Yeoh Lam Keong, former chief economist at GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. But “I’m not sure it’s the smart thing to do”, he added....
...“I have low expectations for tangible outcomes in the US-China meeting,” said Drew Thompson, a visiting senior research fellow at National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy....
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