What's the Real Function of Casino Yeo? Talk Cock & Collect $$$ Pay Cheque?

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent visit to Jakarta and the Asean Secretariat:

'(It was) a signal by the new US administration to show that they value the US-Asean relationship, that they intend to give it some emphasis. I was quite pleased with the way they handled it. It shows a certain regard for Asean, a certain sensitivity to our place in Asia. Better US-Asean relations are good for both sides. An Asean that is weak and ineffectual is bad for the US. In the same way, we need a strong US presence in our part of the world - political, economic and other fields.' Rallying around the Thai government despite domestic political tensions affecting its role as Asean chairman

'We got to make the best out of a less than optimal situation... There is no point talking about who's to be blamed or what could have happened. The key is we have to rally around Prime Minister Abhisit (Vejjajiva) and the Thai government, so that the chair will be effective because we need an effective chair to drive Asean forward.'
Finding new ways to project Asean's strengths in a downturn:

'We must find new ways to cari makan (seek a livelihood) ... make sure that we make Asean attractive. Think of new markets. Tourism is an obvious area where each of us is better off by combining with our neighbours.
'There could be new opportunities in Latin America, the Middle East. We have good links now to both China and India and it's in the hope of establishing some of these new links that Asean foreign ministers met the Mercosur* foreign ministers last year and we'll meet Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers in Bahrain in a couple of months time.' *Mercosur is a trade group comprising Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay

why didn't Hillary visit Singapore? We carry US balls like no body's business yet when ppl visit Asia, they dun bother even to come Singapore as stop over before going to Indon? And to think Indon is one of the staunchest opposition to US.

red amoeba said:

why didn't Hillary visit Singapore? We carry US balls like no body's business yet when ppl visit Asia, they dun bother even to come Singapore as stop over before going to Indon? And to think Indon is one of the staunchest opposition to US.

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Clinton belongs to which party in the USA? Democrats.

Democrats had a long history on human right issue, and Singapore PAP always oppress our opposition parties like nobody business. So Clinton gives a miss at stop over Singapore.

Even Indon are staunched opposition against US, but it is mostly the extremeist. But most of the moderate Indonesians are not, and the new president are putting a lot of effort on stopping corruption and giving human rights to their people after the fall of Surhato. All these can be seen by people around the world.

But Singapore, still the same as ever, always oppressing the opposition parties and threaten the local Singaporeans with jail and fines to oppress the freedom of speech.

Of course the democrats Clinton will give this shit dictator country a miss then.