singapore's gross domestic product per person is about $40,000. that's among the highest in asian cities. the high incomes enable many young singaporeans to pursue their zeal for fashion. and it's a market segment that parco is targeting. >> translator: past experience tells us that we have another chance to expand in a new form. and the fast-growing asian market with our new outlet in singapore. >> reporter: working with local trade associations, the singapore government's policy of attracting foreign firms also played a key role in this endeavor. >> it's a way government can commit resources to help the associations to in a way help enlarge the market for our local designers. i think that's where it will play a useful role. >> reporter: another target is the local talent in singapore. a highly successful incubator program has been brought from japan. 25-year-old jennifer lee is one person who has benefited. jennifer had no formal training or degree in fashion. all she had was a passion. she has now made her dream come true by opening a fashion s

and stay with the olympics there's just a fortnight to go before singapore hosts the first ever u.s. games from the fourteenth to the twenty sixth of august more than five thousand young athletes from all over the globe meeting in twenty six disciplines with a share of events following the one that will run in london twenty twelve this will also be the first your team is ready to include both cultural and educational programs food. is an opportunity to bring people together those are the ideals i think the purpose of the first youth games used to do this at a much younger age for various affiliates around the world so that we can incorporate into them buz strong values at the games want to promote the young age and we hope that we will carry these values forward as they grow up and spread it. to all corners of the world i should mention that my career started i want to hear a goal when i went to the young reporters training camp to singapore so i to that i came to russia and i understood that i fall in love with this country and i felt of the spirit of the different the games so i wa

there's very advanced in singapore they have to recycle every thin with their membrane technology so our subscribers are all looking for this. de sal is not the answer to all of it. where it's wherever. conjunctive use is one of our prime uses is a way we're meeting it, soy have to believe on the membrane which is what you represent in de sal that technology is moving so quick in respect to smart and a insuranced membranes that we're not asking the question that we're asking now with respect to membrane. >> one final piece you talked about the cost of water and that's one element to be considered but not the sole element in incremental water supply element. it goes back to the no silver bullet approach where there's not one single strategy that will work but a come polation of all the tools to help us be flexible and responsive to this changing environment. >> well on that note our time is up and please join me in thanking this excellent panel. and thank s to all of you. >> can can is a research meterologist at the scrips institute of oceanographer at,uc san diego and researcher at i

i mean, singapore has it had for many years, london. how is it working there?do certain hours and is it helping? is it generating revenue? >> it's working fabulously. >> singapore is an excellent model and so has london. they have been able to create a balanced system. there are lots of people driving, but you don't have the excruciating congestion that you find even today on the bridge, on the access to the central market area. >> but they have good public transportation. >> you're also talking about an $1 1 commute. >> you would. but you realize that the people that are commuting every day into downtown -- i'm not talking about shoppers. the people that are working in downtown and commuting into downtown according to the statistics that we have half of those people get free parking from their employers. so if you were according to the cost of parking downtown most of those people don't have that impact. >> they didn't have to worry about it until now. who has the final say on this? where are we in this? is it actually going to happen? >> most likely the voter

ten pm in london five in the morning in singapore right now wherever you are joining us around the world this is our. top stories and a massive leak of more than one thousand secret u.s. military.

smart transportation, singapore, getting people to use alternate transportation. at picnics everything. taxis, buses, light rail. if you know you get off light rail, you know the boss will be there within 30 seconds. by the use of analytics. watching traffic, congestion, those things. you can predict the way to get to where you need to be in a timely manner. it is also true in public safety. governor paterson, new york, real-time crime center, where we worked with the police commissioner kelly and mayor bloomberg. this creates millions of pieces of information, and covering data relationships, leading to a 20% drop in crime. york has beenlassified as one of the safest large cities in the world. -- new york has been classified as one of the safest large cities in the world. alabama, using analytics to tracks to the performance and identify who is at risk in adjusting the curriculum so they can improve it and real-time and obtain the skills required for the 21st century. the list goes on and on. there are lots of ford thinking leader seizing the new capabilities, ye

interpol says more than five dozen people have been arrested in china, thailand, malaysia zia, and singapore. rachel harvey has the details. >> these are a large number of arrests across a huge region. this involves coordination across such a wide area. that kind of cross-quarters operation is talked about. action in making it happen is tricky. it looking at something that affects all of the country's -- that probably provided the push. it may not be the end of the operation. police have confiscated cell phones and computers and the hope that will lead to more information. the gambling is not only illegal across -- the family is not a legal across asia. -- gambling is not illegal across asia. it has to be with licenses within the sporting arenas. despite strict controls, gambling across asia is hugely popular and huge leap relevant. it is ingrained in the culture. there have been people who have said why not legalize it, and of course, that goes against some religious traditions, so -- some social conservatives who say this is not how the one society to go. it is very prevalent. >> still to

like a video game not quite and saying these youngsters there's just over a fortnight to go before singapore hosts the first ever use and impacts from the forty's to the twenty sixth of august more than five thousand young athletes from all over the globe will be competing in twenty six disciplines in the shadow defense following the one that will run in one hundred twenty twelve this will also be the first sporting events to include both cultural and educational programs which. is an opportunity to bring people together those the developing ideas i think the purpose of the first youth games used to do this at a much younger age for various athletes around the world so that we can cock it into them is strongly values at the olympic games want to promote at a younger age and we hope they will carry these values forward as they grow up and spread it. and finally the international sport forum continues in moscow and while the russian foreign dignitaries are busy with conferences around tables other businesses are attending events such as that involving the russian russia last summer and one cau

this is on their 8380s going between london and singapore. it has turn down service., it's the size of a small new york city apartment. and probably has the cost of a new york city apartment, too. are you centered. >> how much? >> from london to singapore, $15,000. >> woah. for how many hours are you on that flight? >> you'll be sleeping. >> for like whatever it is -- >> about 12 hours. >> oh. >> here's the fun part. >> dave has congrecked here. what airlines is this? >> keep it down. >> we'll call it kucuddle class. it was designed for families. it converts in to bedses. the foot rest comes up, so for families, they can lie down on the flight on these long haul flights, this will be on the 777s coming in to los angeles. >> this is like a flat bed. it's pretty good. >> it is. >> so the judged that -- >> and the pillows don't even fall off. >> the backs don't go down anymore? >> but look at how much space he's got. >> you can lay down. >> so two slim people could fit. >> or if dave meets a friend. >> just look in the row behind you and you try to meet somebody. >> pete

singapore's economy has grown by a staggering 18% this year, almost double the chinese rate. the figures have been driven by the recovery in financial services in the opening of two super casinos for tourists. now, was the abducted by the cia or did he defect? for awhile at least? there is plenty of mystery surrounding the iranian nuclear scientist shahram amiri. he says he will reveal full board feet -- full details of what he calls his ordeal once he is in the iranian capital. our correspondent has this report. >> from inside this building in washington, which houses the iranian interests section of the pakistan embassy, shahram amiri is now on his way back to tehran, according to tehran authorities. there are no direct flights. he is expected to arrive home early thursday. but the nuclear scientist leaves behind an unresolved mystery over what has happened to him during the past 14 months. he has given conflicting versions of how he disappeared and arrived in the u.s. in the first of three videos, he said he had been kidnapped by cia and saudi agents while on a pilgrimage.

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market by far it's gaining more than three percent on the news that the bank will place your bonds in singapore dollars but despite the apparent optimism some analysts expect negative trends to prevail on the market especially in light of the euro big european banks stress tests that may pressure on the stocks. russia may have found a partner for its project of using more energy from renewable sources germany's biggest engineering companies siemens is planning to sell its wind turbine technology russia plans to install wind power systems with a total capacity of around five thousand megawatts by twenty twenty siemens alone wants to install at least one thousand two hundred fifty megawatts of capacity by two thousand and fifteen siemens have agreed to form a partnership with russian hydro power utility rules hydro and state holding farm of russian technologies that deal came at a meeting of german chancellor angela merkel and president dmitry medvedev was tweak. and outsold latest from the business team i'll be back with an update in about an hour i'll see about. hungry for the fall we've got. t

than three in the order for some to sour that's on the news that the bank will place euro bonds in singapore dollars but despite the current optimism of some analysts expect negative trends to prevail in the markets and the results of the stress tests of european banks may have russia on the stocks. were exposed to this friday will be a report on one to six banks in europe and it seems that the number of large institutions will not person whose first and. committed to her on the stock market more or we should forget about her financing for the day you were probably the next friday and over all the thirty two billion euros. that spain just don't have and. spain will have to ask european bailout was able to enter a market with significant amount of money. but it was. russia may have found a partner for its project of using more energy from renewable sources germany's biggest engineering company siemens is planning to sell its wind turbine turbine technology marshall plans to install wind power systems with a total capacity of around five thousand megawatts by the year two thousand and twenty s

country's government and international aid organizations have come up with a water based solution cut in singapore. wellcome to water world this is the mighty brahmaputra river originating in debate it enters india and flows on into bangladesh it's the peak of the rainy season and here in the state over sam in northeast india. by boat for those living in remote villages it can take three or four days to reach some of the island's. many villages we can go on when the rainy season it's more difficult to get to them during the dry season we have two to seven kilometers this could take two hours we can't carry all our medical equipment such a long distance one hundred thousand people live in the district of nobody but there is only one functioning medical center no wonder then that the arrival of the book clinic is a big event here the entire village turns out to meet the staff. sixteen year old is pregnant and feels this free check up is a far better option than traveling to the nearest town the book clinic is run by the center for northeast studies and it's funded by the indian government and unicef

midnight here in moscow nine pm in london for the morning in singapore right now of your joining us this hour this is r t it's kevin owen here with the top stories at a massive leak of more than ninety thousand secret u.s. military files as exposed.

disciplining tool but in india it's so widely used despite being bound for a decade in this town in singapore with claims that teaches that being violent towards children are rife. this is one of india's worst kept secrets the prevalence of corporal punishment in schools but the recent suicide of thirteen year old rival has brought the practice out into the open a student at the prestigious law mark me of four boys school in kolkata who hanged himself at home earlier this year after being gained at school after spending months juicing the school for answers his father has filed a police complaint against the three teachers he says were involved i think that they were after him for a long way limiting he was so long as he was giving them individual. battling if i may use the word he was able to take it but when they all descended on him at the same time that i don't think. i don't think his young mind could have that much animosity. illumination from his friends the school's principal has admitted killing ranjeet but says this was not responsible for his suicide the case has set off a public o

countries like singapore were studied about turning around their economies in 10 years. they put their thinking caps on. they enhanced human resources, promoted national team work, to build manufacturing and service clusters, and singapore right now is at the height of global competition. we can do that. >> time is up. >> thank you. >> jari askins. >> it is not surprising that we want to start and say that our biggest drink is our people. -- strength it is our people. it is not just a terrible attitude of we have for each other, all of them rooted in the by use that started with the pioneers and the native americans here when those pioneers came. now use the celebrated family -- values that celebrated family and working together, and if they work hard, i can succeed in help my family and leave more for my children. in the last 12 years, oklahoma has made significant investment, a combination of effort between the legislature and the governor. one of the first was in the late 1990's. a commitment was made that we would invest in non-medical research in the state of oklaho

in singapore, there is an effort to get people to use public transportation instead of cars. they connect everything and to end, taxis, light rail, bus as cars -- buses, and cars. the use of analytics monitors traffic flow, contestant, all of those sorts of things, to allow you to get to where you need to be in a timely manner. this is also used in public safety. in new york, the real crime center contains millions of pieces of information on previously announced relationships, leading to a 20% drop in crime. new york has now been classified as one of the safest large cities in the world. let's talk about smarter educational systems. alabama has the largest school district, in a mobile. they are identifying students to are at risk and adjusting curriculum so that they can improve in a real time way to give children the skills that are required in the 21st century. the list goes on and on. leaders are seizing upon new capabilities that are available and building coalitions and partnerships to get a lot of this done. by the way, smarter systems can help with the nation's econom

it's scheduled to go on sale friday in canada, australia, new zealand, singapore hong kong as well asalmost a dozen european countries. apple says the new phone will be unveiled to more countries late her this year. the united emirates has declared blackberry is a threat to security. government officials say they operate beyond jurisdiction of national laws. they claim it harms the conservative local values. the censorship has become a concern since the uae is trying to become an international business hub. >>> leaders of the democrats and republican spoke out about healthcare reform. house speaker nancy pelosi joined mitch mcconnell at the bipartisan national conference of state legislators in louisville, kentucky. the lawmakers gave two very different assessments of healthcare reform. >> i know that many of you but not all of you supported the legislation. now that healthcare reform is the law of the land, we must work together on implement stationation -- implementation. >> we jammed healthcare through in spite of widespread public outrage. >> analysts say today's comments previewe

taiwan, australia and singapore were down fractionally.an markets started their slide after weaker than expected u.s. economic reports. you can see the numbers down from yesterday just about seven points the dow is down. that was after that mixed economic news that we were talking about. this morning the earnings seasons does continue. good numbers from ge but one of the stocks to watch this morning will be google because it fell be low expectations with its quarterly numbers. >>> goldman sachs will pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges brought through the federal justice system. they are accused of misleading buyers. this is the largest penalty ever levied against a wall street firm but only takes goldman sacks to make that amount of money. >> starting today two new u.s. stamps become available after debuting last night at at&t park. the new stamps honoring the negro baseball league, there it is. the stamps pay tribute to the all black professional baseball league that existed between 1920 and the 1960s, those leagues challenged

south korea, australia, hong kong and singapore also gained ground overnight. >>> texas instruments,fter the closing bell reported its second quarter profits nearly tripled from last year. sales came in at $3.5 billion with profits totaling $769 million. that matched what ti had forecasted but analysts had been hoping for a little bit more and that sent stocks down 5% in after hours trading. >>> checking in on wall street right now the futures do point to a bit of a pull back after slight gains yesterday. dow jones up about 56 points to 10,154. we do have more earnings coming in this morning. we will get a better read closer to the opening bell. >> 5:20. pg&e plans to clean up a wastewater storage facility in the east bay. >>> shell oil's chemical plant in pittsburgh had used the pond as a place to hold stormwater and wastewater discharge. pg&e about the land about 40 years ago. they plan to use the land to expand the pittsburgh power plant but that never happened and the po, which is polluted, with oil and metal deposits, well, it has just been sitting there. now they man to dig it

scholars we talked to was that english was likely to break up into variety, such as scotten english and singapore english would diverge from the standard where they'd become separate languages. what i have described is the reverse. the second language and becoming this global phenomenon. >> but not enough time has passed. they took like -- it took like a thousand years. >> and who knows what will happen in the next 50 years? if global capitalism were to change, who knows? but at the moment, i would say the bet -- the odds are pretty good that globish will become the default position for anybody who is stuck in a means of communicating and a crisis. >> is english just easier to learn than some of the other aspirants to being the world's second language? >> i think it's easier than chinese because it doesn't require the acquisition of some characters. i even some chinese find it difficult. the illiteracy in china is quite profound. it's become quite simple. the core of our conversation is anglo-saxon, you can construct it in anglo-saxon or old english and still get your meaning across. the impuriti

to be the university i have described, put abu dhabi aside, if you're going to be in shanghai, in singaporeu cannot -- >> charlie: from turkey to china. >> yeah, you can't expect that the cultures with which you're going to be interacting are going to be carbon copies of new york city let alone greenwich village. >> charlie: nobody said new york was perfect. >> unless your going to create a university that has a study-away site in philadelphia and toronto but no place else, you're going to have to get people out of their comfort zone. getting people out of their comfort zone doesn't mean core values -- >> charlie: who is out of their comfort zone? >> the whole purpose of the global network university is to get our students -- >> charlie: you're saying having to accept certain things -- having to accept certain things about people and nations and institutions that are outside your own comfort zone as to where you would like to be. is that the idea? >> yes. and you engage -- look, this -- the whole notion of this university is you don't look through the window, you're looking at the facets of

smart transportation, singapore, getting people to use alternate transportation.cnics everything. taxis, buses, light rail. if you know you get off light rail, you know the boss will be there within 30 seconds. by the use of analytics. watching traffic, congestion, those things. you can predict the way to get to where you need to be in a timely manner. it is also true in public safety. governor paterson, new york, real-time crime center, where we worked with the police commissioner kelly and mayor bloomberg. this creates millions of pieces of information, and covering data relationships, leading to a 20% drop in crime. york has been classified as one of the safest large cities in the world. -- new york has been classified as one of the safest large cities in the world. alabama, using analytics to tracks to the performance and identify who is at risk in adjusting the curriculum so they can improve it and real-time and obtain the skills required for the 21st century. the list goes on and on. there are lots of ford thinking leader seizing the new capabilities, yet bu

aintenann china and singapore was a quality as though thee had no responsibility themselves for that. regard to pilots and other airlines thht contract with united or with continental, it is the responsibility of the management of both united and continental today to say nothiig going forrard, it is their responsibility to provide assurances at the highess quality maintenance wherever it may be is done. i ill do everything i can to hold the management responsible for ts quality of the pilots finally, with regard to the issue going orward of the financials on the merger and whether in fact the justice pepartment is looking at it, mr. chairman, i might recommend looking at what we just heard that we invite the justice department to come and testify as to what they have found with regard to the issue of the synergies of all kinds. if they're not even looking at them, they might want to beat them over the head and look at them. are tterr real synergies r one way to put spooe -- smoke up into the air? i do not have any further questions. >> icing we both wouldd with regard to flyinn that y

when i came on board, he began to see people get in line in singapore. thaa was very concerning because the headlines and that all of these companies -- i think it could have caused the last leg of the storm. -- at the time there was the claim that if aig failed, some of the entrance of products particularly in construction bonds, would fail and we would have to bailout every construction site in the united states. what was the real degree of spillover to the non-financial part of the world? >> that is an overstatement. by a twist of fate, the renewal. for many of the property lines were very near on the horizon. the way an insurance company ultimately fails is that if you andot get people to readup they go somewhere else, you will feel it like a sledgehammer. if it had failed, risk managers all over the world would have said that they would not renew our buy insurance from aig. you have had eight big blockage in their system. >> just a comment on this, peter and i have different perspectives on this question. i think there is a burden on the perspective

they met in singapore and had a bilateral discussion at the end of which or following which the secretary sent a letter explaining the importance of japan's contribution for guam -- contra bution for the guam infrastructure improvements and to the movement of marines from okinawa. the letter addressed the implementations of japan's commitment to support the marines to guam under the 2009 guam international agreement. there's been no discussion between the two governments on increasing japan's financial commitments under the guam international agreement which are approximate, as i think you know, $6 billion. >> is this the kind of letter you're expecting a reply from the japanese government? >> i haven't seen the letter. usually correspondence is met with a reply. i don't know what the expect ation was when this was sent, it was like hey, we had a meeting, here is my understanding, does it jibe with yours? we'll have to find out if there was a response received or if there was an expectation of a response when it was sent. yes, go ahead. [inaudible] >> the meeting here in washington, what

we're still dealing with the fog which is the singapore press pretty soon we will see a sudden, sevenn the bay what we had in and that's what's really going to start to heat up upper 90s and even triple digits in to those in the spots. so let's get a look at the numbers are a sea temperatures right now in the '50s, '60s even seventies. 71 daniel, this will surprise a leak into the '90s letter today. this is overlooking a right now. 60 approach in the '70s by the clock hour and by 10:00 even if you '80s to the delta and by noontime 1-2:00 when he ducked into the 90s and topping out into the upper 90s maybe even triple digits around the 4:00 hour. so let's take a look at the numbers was our no. 87 rosa, 96 for napa, that none fairfield, 98 concord. we had over to the south bay to the trees there into the '90s 95 los gatos, 91 san jose in 1904 decrees for morgan hill. finally here is a look at your 7 day around the bay keeping a \ keelhaul today and tomorrow a little bit cooler and we start to cool down. as we haven't monday and tuesday lin say an even thursday. time reynaud 733 lots whi

it started with singapore and then went to other countries. in the beginning, there was a philosophy in thjapan to stick o the previous policy. there was the fear that fta would have a negative that fact. ---affect -- negative effect. looking back at history sometimes as interesting as well. thank you. >> scott herald. >> thank you very much for your remarks today. i have two questions for you. i would like to hear your thoughts on how to strengthen the images of japan and the united states and the united states and japan. i am sure you know that americans consume enormous amounts of japanese cultural products, japanese exports of computers, technology, automobiles. certainly, in japan, there are a number of americans working and studying. the two societies are heavily penetrated, but in the united states, we hear talk about china and east asia, but not as much recognition of the rule that japan plays in our culture and our economy and our foreign relations. i wonder if you could give us your thoughts on the impact and it the understanding of