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It was reported that the lease buyback has now been extended to include 5-room (and bigger) HDB flats. Despite being among the world’s top retirement funds savers, we need to ask ourselves why we Singaporeans need to sell our HDB leases back to the government. When discussing this issue, we need to go back to the basic question... 

Some people think that it does not matter that bloggers in Singapore are sued by the Singapore prime minister or that news sites are charged by the Singapore government. Don't worry, we can read something else. Another website will appear, they say. Alex Waipang Au wrote for the Yawning Bread blog. His first post was in 2004.... 

What does it tell us about the state of world affairs when politicians need to appeal to Facebook and other social media giants, to censor contents which are deemed problematic? It means that In this digital age, dictators can no longer enjoy the monopoly of the tools of information dissemination, or rely on their controlled...