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Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category

We must enforce the law

I quote Singapore's ambassador to the United States, Ashok Kumar Mirpuri's letter addressed to the New York Times of 8 December 2020 and among other things that he mentioned, "if he (Jolovan Wham) chooses to break the law, we must enforce the law". The letter referred to JW's one man protest by holding up a cardboard with a...

Cancel a cruise due to one infection

When I read the news that a cruise ship had to return to Singapore immediately after discovering that one passenger was tested positive for covid-19, I asked these questions: - Why cancel the trip? - Why spoil the holiday of the other passengers (perhaps 1,000 or more)? - Why can't the infected passenger be isolated in a cabin? The...

Can India afford to boycott Chinese investors?

The Chinese reportedly killed 20 Indian jawans and seized Indian territory. India retaliated by banning ByteDance’s hugely popular video-streaming app TikTok and 598 other Chinese apps on national security concerns. Not that silly of India because this significantly narrows a top growth market for Chinese technology firms...

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