The Regrets of Old Man

[cooleo]

When the village ganster goes to the big city, he finds out there are many more smarter people.

China media ignore Lee's criticism - paper Reuters. Dec 7, 1997.

CHINESE media chose to ignore criticism by Singapore senior minister Lee Kuan Yew over officials' handling of a multi-billion dollar joint project, the Singapore Straits Times said on Saturday.

The daily newspaper said Chinese newspapers and television did not carry his negative comments and "instead chose to report only on the more positive remarks."

At a Thursday news conference in China with Chinese media present, Lee issued a blunt message to Chinese municipal authorities about their attitude toward the high-profile Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).

He said officials in Suzhou needed to decide whether to back SIP or a rival municipal New District project.

If authorities in Suzhou decided on the latter, "then it should devote all its resources to it and the SIP will bow out," Lee was quoted as saying by Singapore media.

"Right now, the energy is divided between two industrial estates. That's wasting time, energy and causing all too much friction," Lee said.

Among the examples of Chinese coverage of Lee's remarks cited by the Straits Times was that of the national news agency Xinhua. It said Lee had "paid a friendly visit to the cities of Suzhou and Wuxi" and had said "he was satisfied with the progress of the zone and appreciated the wonderful work by Chinese and Singapore workers."

There have been rumblings for some time about Singapore discontent with the progress of the three-year-old SIP, which when fully developed in 20 years is expected to cost US$20 billion.

But Lee's were the first public remarks by the Singapore side that all was not well with the SIP, the Business Times newspaper said on Friday.

A Singapore consortium owns 65 percent of the SIP, while Chinese companies hold the rest. The flagship project is aimed at bringing to China the management elements that have helped make Singapore an economic success story.

 

[johnny333]

Some of you must have heard about these things;

1) The inability of DBS to emulate the success of HSBC
2) The failure of the sovereign funds to identify winners
3) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to Tony Fernandez
4) The lack of Booker Prize, Nobel Prize etc

I bet the old man will up the lorry blaming Sporeans for his, LKYs, failures.

Even now the press is full of blame for slow, uncompetitive, blah, blah,... Sporeans. Obviously LKY is unable to accept his failings.

 

[SIFU]

his biggest regret is that with all the $$ he has in the world, he is not able to buy whole body spare part for his soon-up-lorry-wife..

 

[jw5]

Some of you must have heard about these things;

1) The inability of DBS to emulate the success of HSBC
2) The failure of the sovereign funds to identify winners
3) Why Singapore has no one that comes close to Tony Fernandez
4) The lack of Booker Prize, Nobel Prize etc

I don't think he regrets any of those things.
Some of his regrets, I believe, are much closer to his heart and relate to his family.
He rpobably has no regrets regarding his governance.