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Singaporean officials are putting up a brave face after highly embarrassing Wikileaks’ disclosures. They have rubbished the leaked cables as “cocktail talk” and accused the media of blowing the casual remarks out of context. Singapore-specific cables have shown that diplomats and officials of this tiny but prosperous city... 

We need to ask this question: Why did the American colonists risk their lives and fortunes to stage a revolt against the mighty country, Great Britain in 1747? Certainly it was not to advance a political party or an agenda. They were not fighting for United States of America which did not exist at the time. But the fighting... 

Tan Kin Lian I am baffled by the argument put forward by NTUC trade union leaders and their MPs that a minimum wage will cause the low income workers to lose their jobs. I find their reasoning to be convoluted and  ridiculous. When the low wage workers lose their jobs, who is going to do the cleaning job and other manual tasks? If...