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Dr Paul Cheung. (ST Photo). At a forum on the Population White Paper yesterday (24 Mar), which was organized by the University of Michigan alumni at the American Club, Singapore's former chief statistician Paul Cheung gave a stark warning of what he perceived to be the very real dangers of population decline by contrasting the... 

FT Amy Cheong. (Photo: Amy Cheong's Facebook). The police have let FT Amy Cheong off with a "stern warning" for her expletive-filled racist rant on her Facebook page last year. Amy Cheong, a Malaysian turned Australian, was employed as Assistant Director of NTUC's Membership Department in Singapore when she put up a racist... 

World TB Day was observed yesterday (24 Mar). In a series of papers published in the prestigious Lancet medical journal to mark World TB Day, experts warn that health systems risk being overwhelmed by increasing numbers of drug-resistant TB cases. "The widespread emergence of XDR tuberculosis could lead to virtually untreatable...