As the regional financial crisis intensified this past year, Singapore's better-managed economy became an affront to its jealous neighbours. Indonesia sought to put the city-state in its place by dismissing it as a dot on the map of south-east Asia. Hong Kong attempted to undermine Singapore's achievements by tagging it a controlled society. And Malaysia seized control over airspace it had shared with Singapore for decades in just one of many attempts to lash out at its closest rival....more

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