4entertain: HIGHEST PAID POLITICAL LEADERS IN THE WORLD

1.LEE HSIEN LOONG

Annual salary: US$
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s decision to set up a committee to review ministers’ salaries comes four years after the pay package was criticized in parliament by Sylvia Lim of the opposition Workers’ Party. This video shows what she said, speaking as a non-constituency member of parliament.

2.DONALD Tsang

Loong came top of a recent report from CNBC that ranked the highest-earning politicians in Asia-Pacific. That's six times more than U.S President Obama earns.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang pulls in US$530,000, 30 times Chinese President Hu Jintao's salary of US$18,000.
But not all are in it for the money.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak makes US$137,000 annually, which he pledged to the underprivileged, having already built up a personal fortune of US$31 million as former Hyundai CEO.
The list:
1. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, Singapore -- US$2.2 million
2. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive, Hong Kong -- US$530,000
3. Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia -- US$345,000
4. John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand -- US$290,000
5. Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan -- US$273,000
6. Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan -- US$184,000
7. Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea -- US$137,000
8. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia -- US$124,000

3.Raila Odinga