Singapore Is Not the Model for a More Libertarian America
The island nation's harsh drug sentences, crackdowns on speech, and poor treatment of blue-collar immigrants make Singapore's policy not worth replicating.
The island nation's harsh drug sentences, crackdowns on speech, and poor treatment of blue-collar immigrants make Singapore's policy not worth replicating.
Today, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam withdrew the controversial extradition bill that set off protests.
"Hong Kong is a place without basic political and economic freedom," Wong tells Reason.
Despite police harassment and border confiscations, protest supplies continue to make their way to dissidents.
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...and what that might suggest about people's rights to those forests today
Made the comment at meeting with North American leaders
Over a decade-old arms smuggling case
One official says the trend is a sign of a "low level of national and patriotic identity of the younger generation"
A not very well hidden jab at China
Administration working on negotiating trade deals with the European Union as well as Latin American and Asian countries
Have a chance to bend history the VP says
The prime minister supports the proposal
Opposition candidates weren't keen to criticize government policy
Even his "opponents" have praised him
Trip will take place in first week of December
Accused of committing crimes against humanity
President Ilham Aliyev reportedly won 85 percent of the vote
Secretary of state is representing the U.S. after Obama canceled the trip because of the government shutdown
Expensive and perhaps soon obsolete ships still sought by countries in the region
Some investors worried about how long the shutdown will last
Approaching northern Philippines and southern Taiwan
Mount Sinabung in the Karo district of North Sumatra
Will discuss international trade with region
And the violent crackdown that followed
Two candidates got exact same number of votes
The Mayon volcano is one of the most active in the islands