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"From this year, Singapore citizens will be given "absolute priority" over permanent residents (PRs) when balloting is required during the Primary 1 registration exercise, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced yesterday....", Asia One[Link] When this news came out earlier today, many Singaporeans who don't have children... 

IT IS reassuring that the Government "is committed to make Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats affordable to Singaporeans" by offering a wide range of new flats, pricing new HDB flats affordably and offering housing loans at "reasonable" interest rates, as reported in "PropertyGuru report misleading: HDB" (March 24). Last... 

[The writer is a 64-year old tertiary-educated S'pore Citizen who had completed full-time National Service. This contribution was sent to TODAY Voices Editor] I refer to your local report "Rise in cases of drug-resistant Tuberculosis" (TODAY Mar 24). Once thought eradicated, Tuberculosis (TB) has made a comeback world-wide,...