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Amnesty has in the past accused Singapore of using strict defamation laws to stifle dissent.

Thai customs agents last year intercepted a shipment from Singapore of 43 Cambodian stone statues weighing more than eight tons.

It is initially hard to see why Lagos has been called the "megacity of the future", with the potential to become the "Singapore of Africa".

This is yet another well-rehearsed call from the Indonesian playbook: a former vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, once accused Singapore of not wanting to part with billions of dollars that fugitive businessmen keep in its banking system; and the former president B.J. Habibie once accused Singapore of harbouring "economic criminals".

Hedge fund manager John Paulson, best known for making billions off the 2008 subprime loan market crash, led the charge last year when he declared the island "the Singapore of the Caribbean".

The Singapore of that era bore little resemblance to the one we know today: as a key entrepôt in the drug trade between India and China, the island was beset by crime and corruption.

Mr. Baasyir is accused by Singapore of leading a regionwide Southeast Asia terror network, Jemaah Islamiah, or Islamic Group, that is suspected of having ties to Mr. bin Laden's network, Al Qaeda.

It makes for a fun look into a past that seems worlds away from the Singapore of today.

Gibson finds it painful to try to connect with the Victorian Singapore, of which few vestiges remained.

In 2009, when I knew nothing about Yale's planning with Singapore, I remarked to my wife as we watched office parks and eight-lane expressways gliding by my window on a Tel Aviv-to-Haifa Aviv-to-Haifa Aviv-to-Haifa of trainiddle Easthat

Few people in Singapore of her generation can say that.