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Singapore Inc and the price of progress in a glittering city
AP reporter recounts Singapore's rapid transformation from colonial port to global hub under a powerful ruling party. Lee Kuan Yew builds a high tech, orderly system with strict controls, vast wealth, and public protests muted by fear. Dissenters warn of lost human dignity and rigid social engineering as old neighborhoods vanish.
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Mort Rosenblum
Ingapore
Singapore
Malaysia
Indonesia
Manhattan
Zurich
Beverly Hills
Southeast Asia
Lee Kuan Yew
Hong Kong
Peoples Action Party
Lee
Lee Hsien Loong
J.B. Jeyaretnam
Jeyaretnam
Workers
Britain
Changi
Toys R Us
James Gomez
Gomez
Borders
People’s Action Party
California
Kampong Glam
Palace
Suez
Stamford Raffles
Chinatown
San Antonio
Raffles Hotel
Singapore Harbor
Bugis Street
Fatty
Low
SDU
Chin Sin Chong
America
United Nations