The science and secretive ways of building assets


  • Letters
  • Saturday, 24 Feb 2007

“WE’RE talking about billions of taxpayers’ money. I will not let this mistake continue,” said Dr Lee Wei Ling when she called for a review of Singapore’s costly biomedical strategy. 

Describing the “scattershot” approach to drug research as spreading resources too thinly, the daughter of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew wanted a more focused and less ambitious effort on a few areas the city can succeed in. 

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