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[This article first appeared in Mr Yoong's blog in 2008. However, the situation he described then for the old civil servant pensioners is as relevant as today's. The article was retrieved and re-published on TRE with Mr Yoong's consent.] Do you know that some of the government pensioners who retired in the early seventies... 

In 2010, I wrote about the start contrast between the quality of pre-school education for rich and poor children [Link]. Richer parents can spend up to $20,000 a year for high quality preschool education while many poor children do not attend pre-school: 300 children from lower-income families get a feel of Primary One by Kavitha... 

SDP secretary-general Dr Chee Soon Juan has written to Yale-NUS president Professor Pericles Lewis, pointing out the contradiction of promising academic freedom while banning political parties from engaging students on campus: 18 July 2012 Professor Pericles Lewis President Yale-NUS College Dear sir, I read with extreme dismay...