OPINION: Highest-Paid Asian Leaders

Yahoo! Singapore Finance, 5 Jan 2012

Multi-billion dollar corruption in India and a whopping 36 percent cut in the salary for Singapore's Prime Minister have once again raised the question: how much should politicians be paid?
Some of Asia's fastest growing and largest economies, such as India and China, have the lowest salaries for their leaders.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for example takes in just $36,200 per year, according to the AFP. Full story