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China is able to make remarkable progress over the past three decades and longer. The China media often described the progress as being made "under the leadership of the Communist Party of China". The western media has criticized this system as being undemocratic. I hold a different view. The one party system ensures that the... 

In the recent Committee of Supply Debate, Workers' Party MP Jamus Lim called for smaller class sizes in Singapore's schools. Class sizes now average 33 pupils. MP Lim proposed a cap of 23 pupils. As he argued in his Facebook post, "It all depends on what we think the purpose of the classroom is. Is it to simply deliver the... 

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just forecast that the American economy will expand by up to 6.5% this year, up sharply from the 3.2% forecast in December. US growth is for once forecast to be almost the same as China’s, which is predicted to expand by 7.8% over the same period That means...