Economically, there will be a shift to the Pacific from the Atlantic Ocean and you can already see that in the shipping volumes of Chinese ports. |
Few doubt the U.S. will act to remove [Saddam] unless he hands over weapons of mass destruction. |
I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh. |
I learnt how people survived and how people had to submit because you need to eat and your family need to live, so I learned the meaning of power. In a sense that power comes out in the barrel of a gun and when the Japanese gun was not as big as the American gun they surrendered and the British came back. |
I want a world-class opposition, not a riff-raff. |
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can. |
I was at South Africa at the time in Johannesburg. We knew he was going in for a medical check for his Colon. They found polyps but they said it was benign but they wanted to do a biopsy. |
I'm not as active as before; but enough to fight an election. |
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. |
It's a law which is approved of by Singapore's inhabitants and which allows us to reduce the drug problem, |
Look at the numbers and quality of the engineers and scientists they produce and you know that this is where the R&D will be done. The Chinese have a space program, they are going to put a man on the moon and nobody sold them that technology. |
We have disrupted their network in Singapore, ... But the key leaders are at large in the region. |
Well, first you must be temperamentally suited, and there must be constant adjustment and give and take. I mean no marriages are made in heaven. |
Well, I think if I had married a different woman I would of had a very different life. She was my partner both emotionally and intellectually. At work and at play and she brought up the 3 children that we have, brought them up to be well behaved, modest and not over-bearing children. |
Yes, we knew that sooner or later, with the build up in the Philippines, in Indonesia and after the KKM arrests in Malaysia that they were bound to penetrate us. |