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A kiasu tiger mom gave her side of a story that has gripped local cyberspace. A newspaper article reported that despite her son getting straight As in her PSLE, she was unhappy that he got 231 points not the 250, she expected and had “punished” her son. Her explanation showed her in a worse light. She was unhappy with... 

An interesting but often ignored in the globalization debate is the story of Iceland. One of the most memorable reply to the question why Iceland didn’t fail as many had predicted came from former President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimmson: “We were wise enough not to follow the traditional prevailing orthodoxies of the... 

Recently, I asked a voter who voted PAP and he said he dislike almost all the policies by PAP and the only reason he voted PAP is because he thinks oppositions are weak and he is afraid no one will clean his block. The article by Dr Chee recently, he commented, "Singaporeans have been conditioned into fearful of change." I reckoned...