By Ng Tze Yong

HIS WORDS

MM Lee: On Chinese students here

I'll be upfront. Most of the bright Chinese students use us as a stepping stone to move on to American schools...

So why are we so stupid?

Because more than half of them will not make the grade.

They will remain here. And the second tier is not bad for us.

On Beijing

You look at the Olympics.

The greening of Beijing was unbelievable.

From the airport to the city, just masses of trees, ferns, everything. Within the city, flowers everywhere.

40 million flower pots!

And they have the power to make the flowers blossom at the right time...

But where did the ideas come from? Tiny Singapore. Little red dot.

...so when you say I come from Singapore, I want to open a company, they say sure, no problem.

This article was first published in The New Paper.

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