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"The Taiwanese take great pride in casting their vote and they see it as a way to tell their government how well or not it has performed in the past term." This is how Ms Frederique Soh characterised the recently held presidential elections in Taiwan. Ms Soh, a SDP youth wing member, was part of the election observation delegation... 

Remember January 2010? Clue: Economic Strategies Committee (ESC). Yes, that was when Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced the findings of the ESC which he headed and revealed the “new” strategy that would take the Singapore economy forward. At the centre of the ESC's report was that Singapore's productivity... 

In an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where he was attending the annual World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that "If you're poor in Singapore, it's no fun but I think you're less badly off if you're poor in Singapore than in nearly anywhere else in the world including the United States." Is that what he...