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The Need for a Multi-Party System 作者：Dr Wong Wee Nam 译者：Bruce Wee 李总理过去曾经提过，现在又重复，一个多党执政制度对新加坡是没有益处的。在2006年大选时曾说过这样的话‘如果有太多的反对党进入国会，政府将不得不浪费时间对付(fixing)他们’，现在此人还持有这种观点并不令人感到意外。 对于除了人民行动党执政以外不需要其他反对党，他给的理由是新加坡太小，没有足够的人才组成一个多党制度。以色列是一个小国，长年处于战争状态，但他们却有... 

At times you really can't feel sorry for the Singaporeans who are facing hardships from unemployment to high cost housing to high cost of living. Compared to the floods that disrupted millions of lives and killed several thousands in Pakistan and China, volcano ash in Sumatra, storms in Australia, forest fires in Russia, civil... 

No matter how many millions you stuff into a city , a city perishes when the region loses it relevance. History repeats itself here. During the hey days of the Silk Route glorious cities lined it’s path and many based empires also thrived. Once,sea routs were favored land routes to China–all cities along the Silk Route perished. Similarly,in...