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The Singapore Democrats welcome the Government's decision to stop the mandatory death penalty against drug couriers. The law does not serve justice and it is applied unevenly. We are glad the Government has realised the error and folly of executing drug mules while narco-kingpins produce and sell their drugs with impunity.... 

Over the last few years, the United States went through a bruising fight in the battle over its healthcare system. It started when President Barack Obama came into office and introduced the Affordable Care Act. Despite Republican opposition, Congress managed to pass the law to bring the US closer to the system of universal... 

Japan had a huge asset bubble in its property and stock market from 1986 to 1991. Its subsequent collapse has contributed greatly to Japan's lost decades in which she suffered sub-par economic growth, recurrent recessions and deflation. Nobel Prize winner economist Paul Krugman believed that Japan is in a liquidity trap. US...