.....on Sinkapore's gahmen trying to attract the wealthy....
whilst generally a sitting-on-the-fence article, 2 pointers caught out that i thot was not meant to be flaterry....
from the NYT:Singapore Makes a Pitch to Draw the Wealthy....."Concerns have emerged, however, that Singapore may also be attracting wealthy individuals who have something to hide.
Before his arrest in 2005 on charges of corruption and fraud, Gianpiero Fiorani, the former chief executive of ItalyÂ’s Banca Popolare Italiana, stashed some of his assets in Singapore. The Japanese fund manager and shareholder activist Yoshiaki Murakami moved his fund, MAC Asset Management, to Singapore before his arrest last year on charges of insider trading. And in December, the police in Shanghai arrested an unidentified Singaporean for running an underground bank that shuttled money between China and Singapore.......

.......Roughly 60 percent of the buyers at Sentosa Cove are foreigners, according to the developmentÂ’s staff. SentosaÂ’s residents get a choice of two views; they can survey one of the worldÂ’s busiest container ports or one of the worldÂ’s busiest sea lanes"
