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Lee Hsien Yang says that, "the PAP has lost its way", and that, "today's PAP is no longer the PAP of my father". Indeed, when you look at the PAP candidates today, except for four (Hsien Loong, Shan, Chee Hean and Iswaran), all of the PAP candidates today only entered politics after 2000. In fact, look at the chart below - do... 

Over a period of 35 years, several manpower ministers failed to find a solution to the challenge of getting employers to give preference to locals for jobs. They kept to the same strategy - getting employer to pay a levy to employ foreigners and set limits on the proportion of foreign workforce. The strategy did not work. Foreigners... 

I’ve just read an article by Al Jazeera’s senior correspondent, Marwan Bishara, that seems to sum up one of the big issues of the current General Election, the seeming inability of a very powerful entity to get the basics right. Mr. Bishara’s article was about the proposed annexation of Palestinian lands in the Middle...