He's since departed for a rather more attractive research post in Singapore.

BBC: Letter from America: Buy and cell

It's time Singapore got over its post-colonial baggage, he says.

CNN: ?>?magazine

This year, South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore are all expected to post growth of about 7%.

BBC: IMF hails world recovery

For film-makers in the region, Singapore has already become a post-production center.

CNN: GAINING CULTURAL CAPITAL

Thanks to Singapore's first-past-the-post system, the opposition has never translated its roughly one-third of the votes into more than four seats, and at the last election, in 1997, won just two out of 83 seats.

ECONOMIST: The government is almost unopposed

My initial marveling at how cool it was that I could do this from Singapore without schlepping to Borders and then to the post office, turned to helpless anger a month later when the gift hadn't been delivered.

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