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Dr Vincent Wijeysingha was to speak at the Liberal International's 57th Congress held in Manila, Philippines, last week. The theme of the Congress was Human Rights and Trade. He was scheduled to speak in a panel "Economic growth and human tights - mutually exclusive?" chaired by the Secretary-General of European Financial Stability... 

The howl that was heard across the island was not about the sighting of a red moon, but the $880,000 price sticker for a 5-room Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) flat in Tampines. National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan could have chosen his words better when he commented about the outrage committed on HDB premises, "If... 

MIT Professor Huang Yasheng is a well-known critic of the state-owned enterprise model, both in Singapore and China Last year, an economics professor from the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Huang Yasheng, strongly criticised Singapore’s state-linked enterprise model, describing it as a “sure-fire way...