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Tommy Koh wrote a piece titled ‘What China misunderstands Singapore’ in the ST on 21 Oct 16. Before dealing with the content of what he said, let me just take a broad view of what the article is trying to say. My first point, is the author assuming that the Chinese are not that clever and did not understand what Singapore... 

Under the pretext of 'strengthening' NS, the government announced last year that pre-enlistees can indicate their choice of preferred vocation. I was intrigued and surprised and wonder if they know what is going on at ground. I came to these conclusions: 1) We need more statistics. What about 'new' citizens, whose children never... 

Minister after minister has kept making unverifiable statements to prepare Singaporeans for a severe economic downturn. Unsurprisingly, PM Lee claims “we are pursuing the right strategies” but he does not know if the “right strategies” will work wonders in a year, a decade or a century. The problem with our “right...