For those reporters out there (and anyone who still reads newspapers), here’s the entrance to the International Herald Tribune’s Singapore bureau, on Club Street, in a part of the city state that hasn’t been torn down amd built back up.
And here’s the mansion headquarters in Phnom Penh of the Cambodian Daily, where, naturally, I went [...]
Like New York in so many ways, with the old being constantly overtaken by the new. There’s a lot of building going on in S’pore right now, from upscale residential to commercial towers sprouting all over the place. This is the Thian Hock Keng temple on Telok Ayer Street, right around the Central Business District [...]
Our plan was to take things as they come and to switch tracks when necessary and circumstances quickly out that to the test. Shopping for plane fares to Siem Reap and hoping to leave S’pore for there on Thursday, we quickly found that our plans coincided with the plans of apparently hundreds of S’poreans on [...]
In the Straits Times this morning, in an article about a conference in which a Singaporean government minister was interviewed by students via text messages projected on a large screen, the American economy was described as being “meltdown.
on a similar note, in conversations I’ve had, and in conversations I’ve eavesdropped on at hawker’s markets, the [...]
in holland village, a commercial and social center of S’pore’s considerable expat community .
Singapore (pop. 4.5 million, per capita income about $27,000) is a great place. The type of city many others would aspire to: with efficient services, wonderfully clean, cosmopolitan in the extreme, and for me, unpolished and bustling commercial districts that feel like streets [...]
whew. I don’t care what anyone says, 23-odd hours — all but two in an airplane — is a long day of traveling. due to the oddities of international time zones, we left SFO at 1:40 p.m. Sunday and arrived in Singapore, hereafter referred to as S’pore, at 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Jeremy was heroic throughout [...]
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