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Singapore has been left with no ready replacement for Foreign Minister George Yeo, the biggest casualty of the city state's general election, a leading think tank warned Monday. Yeo, one of Southeast Asia's best-known diplomats, led a five-member People's Action Party (PAP) ticket that was toppled by the opposition Workers'... 

My friends, my fellow Singaporeans, We may have lost an election but tonight we have rediscovered something so much more valuable - the pride of being Singaporeans. My fellow party members and I began all of this because we felt that we needed to speak up not just for you, but also ourselves. The competition has been robust;... 

Ever since the elections started I've been reading a lot of vicious and ignorant comments about the Straits Times. Here's why most of them don't hold water, and why you should think twice before calling the paper a "running dog for the government" or a "state-controlled press" (other than the fact that it makes YOU look like...