Search Results (5 titles)

Searched over 7.2 Billion pages in 4.42 seconds

 
Singapore (X) Most Popular Books in China (X) Literature (X)

       
1
Records: 1 - 5 of 5 - Pages: 
  • Cover Image

And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

......................................................................... 16 SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM .......................................................... ...lay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor, Singapore. I had visited Singapore a few times before my flight, but had n... ...or a home. These rules kept most families to two or fewer heirs. Singapore, Singaling’s country cousin, or cousin country, had cut births to... ... corporations set up shop and dropped wages to maximize profits. Low paid Singaporeans took the same wage drop as immigrants. This prompted the gove... ...tain a license to have a child. The Singalingians, as their neighbors in Singapore, are quite adamant that the laws which are to benefit society wi... ...e sought the higher ground--and won it. Singaling has joined Singapore in its Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. Researchers from ... ... cells have been harvested and available for export throughout the world. Singapore established itself as a leader in stem cell research and Singalin... ... They want to man the tiller alone. Lee Kuan Yew, the ‘father of Singapore’ was a highly effective leader. After Singapore was expelled fr... ...e. Pragmatism, rather than an idealistic ideology, has been the secret of Singapore and China. The question is do you want to focus on ends or means...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Almayer's Folly : A Story of an Eastern River

By: Joseph Conrad

...r, but the old man wanted more. If Almayer could not get it he would go to Singapore—to Eu- rope even, but before all to Singapore; and he would take ... ...na with him. The child must be brought up decently. He had good friends in Singapore who would take care of her and have her taught properly. All woul... ... of Lingard’s valuable secret. Lingard had disappeared. He wrote once from Singapore say- ing the child was well, and under the care of a Mrs. Vinck, ... ...ard from her oftener since Abdulla bought a steamer, which ran now between Singapore and the Pantai settlement every three months or so. 22 Almayer’s... ...himself nearer his daughter. He longed to see her, and planned a voyage to Singapore, but put off his departure from year to year, always expecting so... ...hter’s lips. Not that day, not on any other day did she ever allude to her Singapore life. He did not care to ask, awed by the calm impassiveness of h... ...er the shadows of the great trees or in the shadow of the cathedral on the Singapore promenade; whether they plotted for their own ends under the prot... ...n Macassar of the white man there, and of the regular steamer trading from Singapore—allured also by the fact that there was no Dutch resident on the ... ...owder would be ob- tained, but Dain must trust him with dollars to send to Singapore in payment for it. He would induce Ford to buy and smuggle it in ...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Typhoon

By: Joseph Conrad

...“Y outh” when the instance of a steamship full of return- ing coolies from Singapore to some port in northern China occurred to my recollection. Y ear...

Read More
  • Cover Image

Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ARCHIPELAGO—Lights unreliable owing erup- tions. Lay from Cape Somerset to Singapore direct, keep- ing highest levels. 90 Actions and Reactions For t...

Read More
  • Cover Image

The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ation headed by Indonesian Islamists with cells scattered across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It also aided a Pakistani group ... ...ly, KSM’s proposals to Atef around this same time for attacks in Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Maldives were never executed, although Hambal... ...Afghanistan. By 1998, Hambali would assume responsibility for the Malaysia/Singapore region within Sungkar’s newly formed terrorist organiza- tion, th... ...ate scenario apparently involved flying planes into U.S. targets in Japan, Singapore, or Korea.) This part of the operation has been confirmed by Khal... ...ing details of the plan. 60 While in Kuala Lumpur, Khallad wanted to go to Singapore to meet Nibras and Fahd al Quso, two of the operatives in Nashiri... ...n, but were stopped in Bangkok because they lacked visas to continue on to Singapore.Also unable to enter Singapore, Khallad moved the meeting to Bang... ... of inves- tigation, interview of Fadl, Feb. 4, 1998. See also Republic of Singapore, Ministry of Home Affairs, Report to Par- liament, “The Jemaah Is... ..., 2003 (Thailand); Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM,Apr. 4, 2004 (Singapore, Indonesia, Maldives). 19. For an example of KSM’s popularity, se... ...KSM also maintains that he persuaded Hambali to focus on “soft” targets in Singapore, such as oil tankers, the U.S. and Israeli embassies, and W ester...

Read More
       
1
Records: 1 - 5 of 5 - Pages: 
 
 





Copyright © World Library Foundation. All rights reserved. eBooks from Project Gutenberg are sponsored by the World Library Foundation,
a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department.