Dweller on the Straits of Johor

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This ceaseless boosterism, in the service of order, health, prosperity, and the Singaporean way, quickly induces a species of low-key Orwellian dread.

Anyone seeking more raunchy action must cross the Causeway to Johore, where Singaporean businessmen are said to sometimes go to indulge in a little of the down and dirty.

And all of it quite safe to eat, thanks to the thorough, not to say nitpickingly Singaporean auspices of the local hygiene inspectors, and who could fault that?

What if, while information elsewhere might be said to want to be free, the average Singaporean might be said to want, mainly, not to rock the boat?

And that baffles us, and perhaps it baffles the Singaporeans that it does.

There is hardly a Chinese face to be seen around the work site, and when you do see an Asian it tends to be either an Indonesian member of a barge crew or a Singaporean of Chinese or Indian ancestry.

At the cobble beach, it was done in a trench by a bikini-underwear-clad Frenchman with a New Zealand passport living in Singapore, working in Hong Kong, with a Singaporean wife of Chinese descent.

The Vietnamese, Thais, Singaporeans are all in Phnom Penh buying up pieces of Cambodia.

The fast boat, privately operated by Singaporeans, was the only reliable link to the town from Phnom Penh.

But they were gaining them among Thai, Malaysian, and Singaporean businessmen willing to pay in U.