A Banyan Tree, A Bonsai & Nanotechnology : Singapore sets future agenda….

OUTPOST TO POWERHOUSE SINGAPORE — Under the late Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore — which this week is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a nation — was unabashedly a hierarchical society. When asked if Singapore was a nanny state, he replied that, if it were one, he was proud to have fostered it. But he also…