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Singapore’s inflation rate last month rose to the highest level since December 2008, adding pressure on the central bank to damp price gains by allowing greater currency appreciation. The consumer price index increased 4.6 percent in December from a year earlier, after climbing 3.8 percent in November, the Department of Statistics... 

TianJin China Here, where China and Singapore are trying to build the perfect city, dozens of orange and yellow cranes spin while five wind turbines stand still. An old man in worn black slippers carts a white sink in a rudimentary wheelbarrow; another fellow drives a decrepit little red tractor with a small payload of red... 

In “Hard Truths,” a book recently released by the editors of The Straits Times newspaper containing a series of interviews with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s longest-standing prime minister provides a few choice words on political opposition. “No, we are not preventing competition. What we are preventing...