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BIG SPENDING has become the new hallmark of the current 4G People’s Action Party (PAP) politicians. From their lavish year-long Bicentennial Celebration to more lavish National Day Rally (NDR) dinners, they are no longer behaving like the Old Guards, who take engagement with the people and spending of public money seriously. True,... 

PM Lee at the SUSS Ministerial Forum I refer to what PM Lee told his young audience at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) Ministerial dialogue recently. Among other things, he said that "Singapore graduates have to be hungry to compete with foreigners because foreigners maybe more hungry and willing to work for... 

War history and contemporary literature, beget images of the cruelty of the Japanese, the ‘banzai’ charge, the mass executions, the obsession with the Emperor and nationalism. It created a picture of a fanatical people. It reduced us to an understanding of generalizations, stereotypes and mockery of the Japanese. No one,...