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Serving a New Nation : Baey Lian Peck's Singapore Story (Second Edition) /

The story of Dr. Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a lot about a Singapore caught in pathological haste and prone towards ignoring values that do not add to the financial bottom line. The innovativeness...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ooi, Kee Beng (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword / by Lee Kuan Yew -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Born a businessman -- My childhood -- The Japanese occupation -- Meeting the wife -- Family meals -- Into the family business -- The Vietnam connection -- Going into oil -- Seeking to serve -- Singapore Metrication Board (1971-1981) -- NTUC FairPrice (1973-1982) -- International Trading Company (Intraco) (1969-1986) -- Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE) (1975-1987) -- Committee on Treatment and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts (1977-1988) and Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association (SANA) (1977-1996) -- St John Ambulance (1991-1998) -- Seeing the bigger picture. 
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520 |a The story of Dr. Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a lot about a Singapore caught in pathological haste and prone towards ignoring values that do not add to the financial bottom line. The innovativeness of Dr. Baey did not only make him a very wealthy man before he was forty, it also made him an indispensable actor in the implementation of urgently constructed national policies. Political leaders such as Dr. Toh Chin Chye, Lim Kim San, Chua Sian Chin and Dr. Goh Keng Swee picked him to solve pressing problems such as skyrocketing inflation in the early 1970s, the crisis in prisoner ward in the late 1970s, and the drug addiction epidemic in that same latter period. His one condition for taking on public positions was that he should not be paid. It was exactly this independent trait that made him so highly effective. 
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