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Dear professor Tommy Koh, I refer to your 20 Mar 2012 Straits Times article "Should Petain Road be renamed? [13]" You said the French Army had been progressively degraded after the First World War due to budgetary cuts. But between 1920 and 1938, French military spending was 4.3% of GDP, higher than Germany's 3.3% over the same... 

Dear Mr Tharman, I refer to paragraph 109 of your Budget 2012 round up speech [1] on the $1.1 billion government package to buy and operate 550 new buses. A check on the SGX website on 17 Mar 2012 showed that SBS shares last transacted at $1.71. Since there are currently 308,629,766 SBS shares issued [2], the current SBS market... 

(This letter was sent to the ST forum but it remains to be seen if it will be published) Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 15 Mar 2012 letter by Mr Daniel Chan. Mr Chan applauds the education ministry for doing the right thing in giving cash to students for demonstrating exemplary values. His reason is that in real life, good...