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Singapore has commemorated 50 years since it became an independent state with an extravagant military parade.

In Singapore he visited an industrial park and conferred with Lee Kuan Yew, then the city-state’s prime minister. Similarly, by instilling an ethos of pride among its civil servants and, more importantly, rewarding them with pay and benefits roughly equivalent to those in...

A more secular trend is emerging in Singaporean politics that has consequences for maintenance of its governing model.