Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore
by sugarpile on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:09AM
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Anything specific about it? The PM's wife being CEO is obviously a bit suspect but it would be far more notable if the family was siphoning off money which there are unsaid said things about but never anything explicit which is... frustrating. So many untalked about things with regards to sg.
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If Putin's wife ran the largest investment fund in Russia would you consider that only a bit suspect?
If she were siphoning off money she would not be doing it an obvious way and we likely wouldn't hear about it. They have a habit of bankrupting wannabe woodward and Bernsteins and taking large sums of money from foreign news organizations that say the "wrong" thing:
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/in-singapore-the-economi...
Singapore is definitely good at rooting out low level corruption though.
Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday September 05, 2020 @11:25AM
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Corruption is always a spectrum right? My guess is that Singapore is at the lower end of the scale, although not at zero.