OPINION: Singapore Bursts With Energy, But Change Can Be Disturbing - Michael D. Mosettig

PBS.org, 10 Feb 2011Beyond the forests of tall buildings that dominate Singapore's skyline, a visitor can feel -- if not necessarily see -- the presence of China.A tiny city-state of nearly 5 million people (more than 70 percent ethnic Chinese) occupying a 263-square-mile island on the tip of the Malay peninsula, Singapore lives in a neighborhood increasingly in the shadow of a vast nation of