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Minister Vivian Balakrishnan now sees politics as a kind of "social medicine" which involves "healing". The Straits Times reported today ('A heartfelt tribute by medical students', 21 Jul) that a group of NUS medical students are involved in a project to publish a book as a tribute to a former third-year... 

According to a poll published by Gallup on 18 July 2013 [Link], Singapore is among the ten most pessimistic countries in the world. Nearly 1 in 4 Singaporeans expect their lives in 5 years time to be worse than presently. Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults per country, aged... 

A former director and shareholder of Vigour Technologies (www.vigourtech.com), Tan Kim Wah, 53, misappropriated more than $233,000 of his workers' salary and caused a strike in August 2011. Tan was convicted and sentenced to 18 months' jail by a district court on 12 July 2013. He could have been jailed up to 7 years and fined. He...