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(BBC, 1 May) - When Sunil first moved to Singapore, he had trouble finding an apartment. "I called up several landlords who had listed rooms for rent," Sunil, a Sri Lankan who spent eight years living in the UK, said. "Things would start out OK, maybe because of my [Western] accent - but the moment they heard my name, they'd... 

Tharman Shanmugaratnam has what the IMF needs in a managing director – equal doses of technocratic and political skills. (Photo: AP) (22 April)   Singapore's finance minister has the right skills while it's time for a non-European to take charge. Christine Lagarde is more than halfway through her tenure as managing director... 

Reform Party notes the NTUC chief and PAP Minister Lim Swee Say’s May Day message to the workers of Singapore. As usual with PAP government messages, it made little or no economic sense. It contained nothing new and was the familiar mixture of simultaneously telling our workers to work harder (the “Cheaper Better Faster”...