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Problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, "is this the life we want?" it aint my system. its not the world i want. but damn, it has its appeal. ♪ >> lady wearing purple: hi, this is singapore. hope you like it. >> anthony: jam-packed in between the carefully feng shuid architecture, the skyscrapers and office blocks are rich, deep, very old and deliciously funky remnants of the old world. chinese, indian, malay, and a culture that...

>> anthony: to many, singapore is the land of opportunity. people from all over the world come here to get a good job, to find a better life. >> mike: as an overseas chinese, we have been discriminated in laos, thailand, vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, in america, australia, all over the world. suddenly, you got this guy called lee kuan yew. theres nowhere else in the chinese world have a real leader as big as lee kuan yew. >> anthony: much of singapores success is often credited to its first prim...

To take advantage of its business climate, becoming an early pioneer of singapores now famous nightlife. back then, in the beginning, at the very beginning, was it a favorable business climate in the sense that, did they look upon your early efforts generously or kindly? or were they not so sure about this guy? how was it? >> mike: oh, no, singapore is fantastic. >> anthony: and what time did bars close? >> mike: 2:00. thats where the opportunity i saw. you know, you cannot run this economy hopi...

Freedom of the press or the things you cant do. >> najip: cant do, yeah. >> anthony: do you think that young creative singaporeans feels those constraints and suffer from them? >> najip: i think some of them who travel knows better. most of them are over educated and under exposed, meaning they have very little experience in what they know. and i think thats what we are lacking. theyre looking for things to do. and the problem with this is were living in a small country and we have nowhere to go...

British empire. soon thereafter, singapore grew, quickly becoming a economic hub and regional capital for the british empires new colony on the malayan peninsula. after world war ii, singapore clamored for independence, first becoming part of the malaysian federation, then a fully independent state in 1965. helmed by its first prime minister, lee kwan yeu, tiny singapore famously went from a third world outpost to a first world nation in a single generation. >> cab driver: in singapore, rules an...

Itek sioh, duck braised with tamarind and coriander. and the famous lady fingers, or sambar bendir, okra sauteed with sambal. whos cooking now? has that changed? >> damian: it has changed. you know, everybody wants to go up the ladder very, very quickly, and they want to do it in a way where they dont want to put too much effort in it. where is the prestige in a peranakan restaurant? you work in a kitchen, 12, 14, 15 hours a day, and most of them dont want to do that. so what happens is that the...

Do you think that the singaporean success story is a rebuke to american and western values in some respect? >> donald: no, no. >> anthony: i mean, is free speech overrated? >> donald: i dont think we succeeded because the absence of free speech. >> anthony: its a fact, though. >> donald: the values of free trade, the values of a liberal global order, these are western ideas. i mean, singapore did not invent them. the asian did not. >> anthony: i mean, look, it shouldnt work. it hasnt really work...

Question. where are they going to come from? >> goh: theres a lot of insinuations of an answer, but no true answer. >> anthony: the answer is not from singapore, right? theyre going to have to come in from china. >> goh: for the 15,000, or 20,000 food stalls like this we have in singapore, if its public run like this one, you cant hire foreigners. its meant for singaporeans. >> anthony: but isnt the beginning of all of this was people from china, india. >> goh: thats what i keep saying, our food...

>> cab driver: chinese, ho kai min. >> anthony: ho kai min? >> cab driver: ho kai min. sometimes chicken rice. >> anthony: chicken rice of course. >> cab driver: yes. >> anthony: how about favorite indian dish? >> cab driver: definitely biryani. you know that? >> anthony: the biryani. >> cab driver: ya. biryani rice. >> anthony: oh, sungei road right? >> cab driver: yes, yes. >> anthony: oh thats the best -- on sungei road. its funny. i recognize every place here by food. [ laughter ] >> goh: to...