Commonwealth update

New Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin scrapes home in the general election to form a minority government. Lee Kuan Yew's son becomes Singapore's third prime minister and Albert Rene hands over power in Seychelles after 27 years. Australia moves in a team of 300 to fight crime and corruption in Papua New Guinea. Tanzania launches a controversial project to draw water from Lake Victoria and stirs Egypt over treaties dating back to 1929. Unrest over constitutional change flares in the Maldives. The British High Commissioner causes a rumpus in Kenya over corruption. Mauritius contemplates leaving the Commonwealth over Diego Garcia. The UK hoists its development aid substantially. And Margaret Thatcher's son is arrested in South Africa as details emerge there and in Zimbabwe of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.