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Australia and the Pacific – Complimentary Report

by Henry Becker 02.23.2010
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As a kid I would watch my father read the newspaper many evenings. Sometimes he would catch me staring and impart on me some bit of news that he thought I might find interesting. The best tidbit of advice he ever gave me about the news was that the big headlines tell history [...]

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In the land of Raffles

by Henry Becker 11.03.2009
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The small island city-state is smack in the middle (both geographically and economically) of what is shaping up to be the global economic engine -Asia. In 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles saw the potential of Singapore’s geographic location. Raffles was spot on. Today the ultra-modern, ultra-clean city-state is home to one of [...]

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