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Melbourne(2 Apr) - A spurned Chinese woman sobbed hysterically in court on Thursday after being accused of killing a four-year-old boy in Australia with garden shears before laying in wait for his grandmother and stabbing her to death. Cai Xia Liao, 45, had been having an affair with the boy's Melbourne-based grandfather Brian... 

I am one of the "silent majority". I have never written or blogged or Facebooked about national issues. But there's always a time for it. I mourn the loss of our national giant, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. My heart is saddened as if I have lost someone close to me. At the same time, my heart is bursting with pride at the unprecedented... 

Limits on expression hamper creativity. (Photo: Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images)In building Singapore into a modern economic power, the late Lee Kuan Yew displayed admirable flexibility -- scrapping policies that didn’t work, expanding those that did. His political heirs should be similarly pragmatic about revising the illiberal...