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Philip Bowring
Feb 26, 2015
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The gulf in quality of leadership at the top administrations between Singapore and Hong Kong was again illustrated this week by comparing the annual budget speeches of Tharman Shanmugaratnam in Singapore and John Tsang in Hong Kong.

Tharman is internationally respected for his strong intellectual grasp of financial and economic issues. Tsang is a run-of-…

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