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Friday, November 15, 2002
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Singapore may lift its ban on chewing gum imports, also featured by greengrl
Singapore's 10-year ban on the import of chewing gum may be scrapped as part of a free trade deal with the United States. It's one of the items on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with US.
Oh ok, so Singapore government has probably estimated that the benefits of signing this FTA is greater than the savings they would generate from having that ban in place. Gheeez. It's so Singaporean. Maybe one of those "Asian values"... now who did I hear that from?... Oh... oh... it's from the former PM Lee Kwan Yew... I better shut up, right? Yeah right. Asian values my ass.
posted by Allan at 12:26 PM (GMT+8)
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