Posts Tagged ‘burma’
More uncensored comments by Lee Kuan Yew released on WikiLeaks, with his opinions on the Anwar Ibrahim trial and Malaysian politics making the largest waves. Sydney Morning Herald: The cable that deals with Dr Anwar’s sodomy case, dated November 2008 and released exclusively to The Sun-Herald by WikiLeaks, states: ”The Australians said that Singapore’s intelligences […]
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Tags: anwar ibrahim, burma, china, india, japan, lee kuan yew, Malaysia, politics, sodo, thailand
Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
Socialism or Free Markets? Consider Myanmar and Thailand
Lee Kuan Yew opines in Forbes: IN TERMS OF LAND area and population Myanmar and Thailand are close in size, and i n the 1960s both countries had similar rates of growth. But in 1962 Myanmar’s General Ne Win led a coup d’état, establishing a nominally socialist military government that followed an economic policy of autarky. […]
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Tags: burma, forbes, free trade, investment, lee kuan yew, Malaysia, myanmar