From the epochal to the mundane, the decisions of Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew have steered the history of his island nation for more than half a century. But as the political party Lee founded in 1954 seeks to shore up its sliding fortunes with a younger and more politically outspoken electorate, the 87-year-old man regarded as modern Singapore’s founding father has withdrawn from day-to-day governance by quitting his Cabinet post along with Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, who succeeded Lee as Prime Minister in 1990
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South Viet Nam: The Queen Bee
The history of Viet Nam is full of heroines.
Malaysia: Wild Actions, Wilder Threats
One week after its stormy birth, the infant nation of Malaysia was hoping for peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah ; in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion.
Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake
At 6:30 p.m.
Earth at the Tipping Point: Global Warming Heats Up
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out.
The Day the Earth Moved
The 9.0 quake that hit Japan on March 11 was powerful enough to shift the earth on its axis and make it spin a little faster, shortening the day by 1.8 millionths of a second. It shoved the island nation one parking space to the east
One Man’s Fight Against Net Neutrality
I am neutral on most things that don’t involve food or sex or sexfood, which does not yet exist but which I already feel strongly about. But I am against Net neutrality.
China Courts Nepal with an Eye to India and Tibet
It is not every day that the military chief of the world’s emerging superpower stops by a tiny Himalayan nation. So when General Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army, touched down in Kathmandu on March 23, all of Nepal was watching
What a Coup: Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula
Madagascar is an island nation in limbo.
Paris: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours — Introduction
Madagascar is an island nation in limbo. A 2009 coup, in which the opposition leader toppled the country’s President with army backing, has created a stalemate with no single party able to form a transitional government