Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.

BBC: Business trip: Singapore

Oddly, the industry's structure closely resembles 1930s-era mass manufacturing.

ECONOMIST: Software in Japan

One sight is striking -- a beautiful structure that could have passed as a hotel in a different era.

CNN: Liberia: Sweet land of liberty now bitter, broken

Why, if politicians are at last to do something about the Depression-era rules that govern financial firms, have they not tried to update America's supervisory structure at the same time?

ECONOMIST: Killing Glass-Steagall

Telecommunications is imploding not only because of unbalanced balance sheets but also because its immensely complicated regulatory structure, involving the federal government and 50 state regulatory agencies, was cobbled together for a pre-Internet era.

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