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Kao ' f Taiwan is a nation on the more after having success- fully weathered the perils of infancy- In fact, the success story of Taiwan has been so dramatic that she is fast becoming a model for Asian economic development. The gross national product has risen at the rate of 8.291 annually since 1952 and now stands at 53.1 billion. Industrial production has been increasing nearly 14572 a yearp industry on the islana' is four times broader than it was in 1952. Per capita income rising 412575 each year has nearly doubled to 5200. Economic stability was achieved by first re- forming the agricultural base. As the result of an effective land reform program Taiwan's agricultural output is rising 675 a year, and the nation is not only Approaching Kaohsiung. able to feed itself one of the highest-calorie diets in Asia, but has also developed a profitable farm- export market, especially to japan and South Vietnam. Even while improving and increasing agriculture, Taiuan's economists laid long-range - and highly realistic - plans to balance it uith industry. Supported by loans from other nations the Taiwan goifernment set about building industry and improving the intrastructure of railroads, highways and communications on uhich it depends. At the outset, major industries were put under government control, and many of them remain there. Yet for all the huge role that gouernment has played in Taiwan's economic upsurge, private enterprise is strongly encouraged, and in the past five years thegoz'ernment's shareof total industrial output has dropped by 6802 to 31075. Foreign investment is also being drawn to Taiwan. To outsiders, Taiu'an's biggest advantage is inexpensive labor. Minimum wage laws require only 511 a month for unskilled labor, while skilled workers get up to 870 or 580. The rates are only one-third as high as wage levels in japan and half those in Hong Kong. As a result, several Asian companies have moved operations from those areas to Taiuan. Taiwan does haue some economic problems, but so do all prosperous nations. The biggest headache is creating jobs for the 165,000 people who uill enter the labor market every year for a decade. Taiwan must also improve education to overcome shortages of managers and skilled foremen, and solve its brain drain. each year 2,300 students go to the U.S. to attend universities. Few return to Taiwan. Still, the scope of the problems yet to be solved only serves to point up how well the Chinese on Taiwan have done with their economy in the past two decades. Not only have they surz'iL'ed, but they have become a shou-place for the rest of Southeast Asia. And as impressive as the record is on its oun, it takes on even greater proportions when the economy of Taiuan is matched against that of a country only 100 miles away - Communist China. I . l. ' rg-'tint , : 1 In l I 11 I ll 11 q nn aI' 1 I -34 ' ' ' ...V . 214 I . R, P - mu, V, 5-,q,,..,,-. 1 - Q - -v . N' ' 4 A., ' 'u . . 5 PY -U vi -A v. uh ,4,,+.'.w' ,. tv' N' 4 - R' ' . tw-'WWI' -. . - .'..':- .rf fix' -- -' - ' .. ' -3 J -1 M ,.g.-, :5eB'4gq-QQ, fra., .,.,,s.. A 1. mi. . , 1 3- . , fy ' V .1p..rg,g4'f -' - . 5... W k wg ,,g','14'gf '-.- ,N 51 . f- ' '-yr ' f - 2 ' ' '. .5f P! A i ' ' 'FF-'f'::f. 452133. - .QA-g+-... ls .,.,.' v gig? 4.4, , , ki A 21. .wg N: ---.. A ,. i 'Q .. 'X it - 1 M.. 1 1 '-V 2 ' ...-51.',.p-g 'Y was 1' -in-n L ' , , Q.. ' filmx .V K - . M ,M .mn EA J L.,, an -Mug, L. I V, - .. UE, A ,' -, ig A, , . MAQ. - I ew: ,g K . The waterfront,

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QI Q95 Ne? Q -lie 7 N. Sa. L. A part of the State of johore, Singapore in 1819 was ceded to the British East India Company through the efforts of T. Stamford Raffles. Under Raffles' liberal rule, the extensive Slave trade uas suppressed and Singapore developed into one of the great ports of Asia. It was made a part of the Straits Settlements, with Malacca and Penang, in 1826. Its commerical and strategic development continued unabatedf it was a British naval base before World War II. Occupied by the japanese from 1942 to 1945, Singapore in 1946 was made a crown colony with the Christmas and Cocos - Keeling Islands. It was separated from those islands and made a self-governing state within the commonwealth of Nations in 1959. In August 1963, Singapore joined the Feder- ation of Malaysia, but tensions greu. between her Socialist Chinese leaders and the conservative Malay-dominated Federation Government. In August 1965 Malaya forced Singapore's withdrawal from the Federation. Today, under the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore is trying to make the grade as Asia's newest nation. At first glance Singapore appears healthy enough. Sports cars snap along its well ordered streets, and its ships overflow with goods from all over the world. Government built high-rise apartments are rapidly replacing the sweating tenements of the city's grimy past, and Singapore's per capita income of S531 is the highest in Asia except for japan. But in spite of her apparent prosperity Singapore is struggling for survival. Prosperity depends on industry, which was deprived of its primary market when Singapore withdrew from the Malaysian Federation: and unemployment is now up to 1575. To keep the economy going Prime Minister Lee has been scouring the world for markets and initiating broad incentive programs in an effort to attract foreign industry to Singapore. He has also been keeping a firm hand on local unions by refusing to authorize wage increases unless productivity is also raised. His efforts thus far have been successful. He has drummed up a multi-million dollar export business with Thai- land, Cambodia, Palestine, and South Vietnam, has expanded an already flourishing business with the Communist world, and is negotiating with Indonesia's post-Sukarno government for contracts that would re-establish Singapore as the main processor of Indonesian rubber. Aside from the economic difficulties, Singapore must begin to create a national spirit for itself. To this end Prime Minister Lee has launched his Rugged Society Campaign to meld Singapore's polyglot population lI.5 million Chinese, 300,000 Malays, 175,000 Indians! into a single cohesive nation. The key to his program is the National Service, or draft. In addition to basic military training, the city's youth will get a stiff dose of enforced togetherness. They will live in integrated quarters, eat at integrated tables and be required to learn at least one language besides their own. Lee'5 theory is that only if he can get his people to stand together in support of their new nation will the society be healthy enough to make the new Singapore a successful entity. 1 R! h'l 'l '?l. rmr ' ...' GUADALUPE sailors find some exotic playmates. 1 x 1 1 ' iff ' GNU ' I Q British influence z's evidenced by the architecture of many of the buildings in downtown Singapore. ll ' ii