TR EMERITUS

Something is happening to our species, especially in the last 70 years. Many horrors have occurred since 1945, including the partition of India, China's Great Leap Forward, the Vietnam War, the Biafran crisis (Nigerian Civil War), the Khmer Rouge and the Rwandan genocide, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, mass slaughters,... 

I refer to the news, National Service Fitness Improvement Training to replace remedial training for NSmen- ST, 16 March 21. I've served my national service >40 years ago. I remember that back then, training was tough, military life was spartan, my defence minister was the late Goh Keng Swee and the SAF was serious and competently... 

The headlines on Sunday Times says, “Births here hit historic low as deaths climb to historic peak”. The year (2020) also saw population decline for the first time in 10 years as many foreign employees were laid off due to the pandemic and left the country. It is unsurprising that the number of births goes down when population...