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“We should not because of one incident make that into an issue – that all immigrants are like that, or all Singaporeans should feel like that towards not even immigrants, but towards non-Singaporeans who are in Singapore, either studying or working here. That is something we have to be conscious of.” – Prime Minister... 

In his first public comment on the canine proliferation in Singapore, PM Lee's advice is to maintain a certain balance and not get worked up every time someone misspeaks." At first glance the word seems to be taken directly out of the Orwellian lexicon of Newspeak, the fictional language in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four",... 

I wouldn't have recalled this very unimportant conversation from many years ago if, well, the gahmen hadn't screwed up. It was World Cup time, and my boss and a male colleague were chatting about a footballer who'd played uncharacteristically badly, and whether he could've thrown the match. (I've forgotten who he was, but to...