Can't really tell for certain. If its true then apparently our allies are on our side. May i say the world's powers as if it true, they'll know about it. Nobody however is coming out to say anything.
There is some truth in behind, so far singapore government did not comment anything when CSJ brought up the issue, if that is the case, singapore indirectly do business with drug lord,
Excerpts from an article:
The Nation (US) October 20, 1997.
By Dennis Bernstein and Leslie Kean
Business is business
WALL Street Journal editors, in the 1997 Index of Economic Freedom, rated Singapore as the most business-friendly country in the world. Unfortunately, that friendliness has been extended to Lo Hsing Han, Steven Law and the narco-dictatorship of Burma.
As Tay Thiam Peng, director of foreign operations at Singapore's Trade Development Board, bluntly put it in 1996, when it comes to business, morality takes a back seat to profits. "While the other countries are ignoring Myanmar (Burma), it's a good time for us to go in," Tay stated. "You get better deals, and you're more appreciated... Singapore's position is not to judge them and take a judgmental moral high ground." As Burma's number-one business partner, Singapore now has 53 projects in Burma, which as of January totaled nearly $1.2 billion.
"Since 1988...over half of [the investments from] Singapore have been tied to the family of narco-trafficker Lo Hsing Han,'' says Robert Gelbard, former US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Most of these investments are in joint projects with Lo's family-controlled Asia World Company. Asia World includes a host of subsidiaries and three overseas branches in Singapore. US narcotics officials say that these "overseas branches" are part of the ongoing money-laundering investigation.
when people are so despotic and dishonorable that they make laws that send people that does nothing but stand around and give speeches (Dr Chee Soon Juan) to jail time and again... can you not believe that they are in cahoots with drug lords ?
