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Today's (21 January 2011) Straits Times headlines "Will PAP last?". This is how MM Lee sees it: " If the decline in standards happens gradually, an opposition of quality will be launched. The public can sense it." - MM Lee He does not see a problem for the PAP in the next 10 or 20 years. The issue for voters, as he frames it,... 

In “Hard Truths,” a book recently released by the editors of The Straits Times newspaper containing a series of interviews with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s longest-standing prime minister provides a few choice words on political opposition. “No, we are not preventing competition. What we are preventing... 

Two years have passed since Sabahan Yong Vui Kong was sentenced to death by a Singapore court for a drug offence. As campaigns to save him continue relentlessly, he has turned to Buddhism, meditates and counsels other inmates and prison wardens. Those were the days: Vui Kong (centre) with his brothers. Every day counts for Yong...