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Below is the text of Dr Wong Wee Nam's speech delivered at the forum entitled Responding to Marginalization: Assimilation vs. Integration during the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats' General Assembly held in Siem Reap, Cambodia in April 2014. Singapore is a small country. To the world, the country does not seem to have... 

The Singapore Democrats are giving out the Mohd Isa Bursary Award and are calling for applications. The criterion we set was stringent: Only students from families with household per capita income of $450 or less would qualify. In other words, to be eligible a family of four cannot have a combined monthly income exceeding $1,800.... 

The recent Sunflower Student Movement that took place in Taiwan was initiated by a coalition of students and civic activists who were protesting the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA). The students were angry that the Agreement was pushed through the Legislative Yuan by the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) without adequate...