The prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, has indicated that students may be given more political freedom.

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"The law cannot just apply without thinking of the consequences to the family, " Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong declared publicly.

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Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, whose government contributed to the rescue package, also arrived in Jakarta for a one-day visit.

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On Nov. 16 in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong and Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa agreed to find ways to settle the dispute.

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He was greeted at the airport by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, and later played rounds with the PM, Singapore cabinet ministers and President Ong Teng Cheong.

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Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong warns that ASEAN has been "conspicuously missing" from the flurry of free-trade agreements worldwide, which help entice investors with the promise of enhanced access to multiple markets.

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"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.

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Calls to make Singapore more conducive to bigger families had been echoing through the island since Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong brought the topic up yet again in his National Day Rally message in late August.

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