TR EMERITUS

Dec 31, 2011 We thank Mr Leong for his letter “More light on social assistance figures needed” (Dec 26). Mr Leong referred to the increase in calls on social services to the ComCare Call hotline from 2008 to 2010, and commented that the trend seemed odd when viewed against other MCYS survey findings and statistics on beneficiaries... 

We bid goodbye to 2011. 2011 has been an eventful year. It was a bad year for despots. The world saw the deaths of the Al Qaeda terror network leader Osama Bin Laden, Libya’s long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi and North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. It also saw many other strongmen dethroned. The Arab Spring that began... 

When the concept of super talents in politics was first proclaimed in an edict, the people quietly accepted it as there was nothing to dispute the fact that the country has been very well managed, from the Third World to the First World. Albeit a little flaws here and there, overall the country was in the pink of health and...