" As we colonize the solar system, predicts George Yeo, Singapore's trade minister, "Planet Earth will become the Old World.

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Earlier this year, its minister for information and the arts, Brigadier-General George Yeo, pronounced Singapore well on the way to achieving that goal.

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"China and India will continue to grow and by the time this is all over, the global landscape will look quite different, " George Yeo told a group of visiting foreign journalists.

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