OPINION: Singapore is the happiest place in Asia? Seriously? - Alexis Ong

CNNGo.com, 13 Dec 2010
Following an interview with MM Lee, Buettner concluded that Singapore is proof that happiness can be manufactured or engineered through government policy.
I’m assuming this guy is an optimist, but I’ve never heard anything so cynical from a writer who styles himself as an explorer and seeker of happiness. Clearly the way he quantifies said “happiness” is vastly different from how the rest of the world might define it. Full story

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