Most Expensive Bootlicker in the World

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>US can help maintain stability in Asia: PM Lee
In a Chicago TV talk show, he defends S'pore's policies and rebuts suggestions of nepotism

By CHEW XIANG
IN CHICAGO
ASIA will continue to grow for decades to come barring conflicts or war but the region faces inherent instability which the United States can help mediate, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.

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PM Lee addressing The Chicago Council on Global Affairs yesterday. He said it's important for Asia to have a balance of players where the interests of all parties, big and small, are taken into account.

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Mr Lee, in a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said that if a nation was a group of people with a shared language and culture, none of the Southeast Asian countries could be considered nations, and that diversity was a source of recurring tension that the governments needed to handle carefully.
Meanwhile, China and India are facing their own problems with structuring their economies, with the former likely to still take time to find the 'right tone' to engage the international community.
For instance, while the US has in recent weeks put pressure on China to revalue its currency to ease American woes, Mr Lee said such a move was in China's own interests to avoid a showdown with the US and all its global partners. 'China is still far from being a developed country,' Mr Lee said, and still needs foreign and American expertise in building up.
'Both have much to gain by working together and much to lose if they collide with one another. The two economies are intertwined,' Mr Lee said.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#fffff1><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=124 align=center><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>'My wife (Ho Ching) is CEO of Temasek ... It's not because I appointed her, the board appointed her, there are processes, due diligence ... She is there on her own merits. She is not there because she married me. I married her because she is that sort of person who is capable of doing something.'


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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>America's role, he said, was to help maintain a stable environment, which would serve its own economic interests far better. That's why it should continue to stay engaged in the region, Mr Lee said. 'It's important for Asia to have a balance of players where the interests of all parties, big and small, are taken into account.'
Mr Lee noted problems in neighbouring Malaysia which is trying to find its own path to prosperity but is having to reform a system in which affirmative action is heavily entrenched. 'If you want to change to meritocracy, even the choice of words to describe what you are trying to do is a very sensitive matter,' he said.
In Chicago, Mr Lee also met mayor Richard Daley and appeared on Chicago Tonight, a popular local televised talk show hosted by Phil Ponce. He spoke briefly of US-China relations, China's race to economic growth, and again defended Singapore's policies and rebutted suggestions of nepotism.
'My wife (Ho Ching) is CEO of Temasek. . . It's not because I appointed her, the board appointed her, there are processes, due diligence. . . She is there on her own merits,' he said.
With Ms Ho looking on in the television studio, Mr Lee said: 'She is not there because she married me. I married her because she is that sort of person who is capable of doing something.'


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[Xisiqomelir]

'My wife (Ho Ching) is CEO of Temasek. . . It's not because I appointed her, the board appointed her, there are processes, due diligence. . . She is there on her own merits,' he said.
With Ms Ho looking on in the television studio, Mr Lee said: 'She is not there because she married me. I married her because she is that sort of person who is capable of doing something.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temasek_Holdings#Board_of_Directors

Board of Directors

* Chairman of the Board: S Dhanabalan
* Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chairman Exxon Mobil Asia Pacific: Kwa Chong Seng
* Executive Director and CEO: Ho Ching
* Executive Director and Chairman Asia Pacific Breweries: Simon Israel
* Chairman DBS Group Holdings: Koh Boon Hwee
* Managing Director and Group CEO, ComfortDelGro: Kua Hong Pak
* Managing Director of GK Goh Holdings Ltd: Goh Yew Lin
* Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance: Teo Ming Kian
* Chairman, SEB, SAAB AB, Electrolux, Deputy Chairman, Ericsson: Marcus Wallenberg

 

[Brightkid]

I can confirm he is not the only rare one in this country. There are more than 29 others top-of-the-top-paid politicians in the world. no one from any other country come even near to be compared in terms of salary and the size of economy they work for.

 

[tanwahtiu]

He has to bootlicked the US because he is still holding US T-bills, BG (unsecured bank guarantees) and MTN notes and yet to matures.

 

[Baroko]

He is the only politician in the world, besides his daddy, who can talk like this and get away with it.

If Singaporeans don't want to listen these crap any longer just vote them out.

 

[Merl Haggard]

This is most disgusting and he together with his old fart father and his whore wife are most unashamed!