The quiet neighbourhood in east Singapore has an abundance of excellent restaurants serving authentic local cuisine.

BBC: The perfect trip: Singapore and Malaysia

The bank is working to convince some of East Asia's wealthier countries like Singapore to become donors for the first time.

CNN: Inside Asia's New Bank for the Poor

Denis Hew, of Singapore's Institute of South-East Asian Studies, blames the low uptake on several factors.

ECONOMIST: Free trade in South-East Asia

Replacement referees took charge of the game, in which India's East Bengal defeated Singapore's Tampines Rovers, 4-2.

WSJ: Singaporeans Allege International Dimension in Match-Fixing Scandal

Singapore, for instance, is a bit of the East that is rich enough to be in the first world but does not want to be part of the West.

ECONOMIST: Political geography needs some new terms

EIU's index ranks Singapore tenth in terms of business costs, most South-East Asian economies are far cheaper.

ECONOMIST: BUSINESS COSTS

South-East Asia, too, has a number of mandatory schemes, but often (as in Malaysia and Singapore) it is the government that controls the fund and decides how workers' assets should be invested.

ECONOMIST: Time is working against state pensions

"Chinese Strategic, Economic and Social View of Vietnam", edited by Gu Xiaosong and Sheng Lijun, Institute for South-East Asian Studies, Singapore, 2005.

ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgments