NSTonline
14 Aug 2008
Zakaria Abdul Wahab, BERNAMA
he political problems faced by many countries in Asia are due to money politics but the problem did not take root in Singapore because “we have a Division One team in charge”, said former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
He said that in many Asian countries, money politics was simply the “code word"
for buying votes to gain power and, after that was done, “to recover your expenses plus some profit for the next round of vote-buying”. “One of the big problems they now face, in other countries, is the people in power want to reserve the money, keep it for themselves. So, they exclude young able people who want to join their team.
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