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I was a little surprised to read the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman’s remarks in the Wall Street Journal Asia piece, “Leaked cable spooks some U.S. sources” dated 3 Dec 2010. The paragraph in question went like this: “Others laid blame not on working U.S. diplomats, but on Wikileaks. Singapore’s Ministry... 

Lee Kuan Yew THE WikiLeaks expose of the 251,287 United States diplomatic and embassy cables is both good and bad, and enlightening and tragic, depending on which end of the rope you get to hold -- the one that you pull or the one that garrottes you. There's a perfect reason why cables of these nature are shielded and deemed... 

The Wikileaks revelations in which Singaporean officials gave damning descriptions on Malaysian prime ministers and the part they played in the ‘decline of Malaysia’ make grim reading but are nothing new. Incompetence, racial conflict and high-profile murder already feature as daily fodder in our Malaysian newspapers. In...