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OPINION It appears that Singapore is fast turning into a country of loansharks judging from the number of Singaporeans who are charged and jailed lately for loanshark activities. Almost every other day, there will be a newspaper article of a man being jailed for being loanshark or a girl for harassing debtors and the sentences... 

EDITORS' NOTE: The below article was posted by a reader to show why it is impossible for IP spoofing to be used to "grab" content from our site in this instance. [Read our latest rebuttal to Mr Geoffrey Pereira's second article on 13 November 2009 here] Now lets down to the technicalities involved and examine the evidence before... 

张元元事件发生后，引来了传统媒体对新加坡民间的批评声浪。各种评论几乎都集中在谴责新加坡人“狭隘”。其中，联合早报记者明永昌评论道：“民间要求海外人才摒弃他们对原籍地的热爱，“融入”本地社会的诉求，是否符合实际或许需要作一番检讨。”（联合早报，12-10-2009） 严孟达副总编辑也写道：“新国人士向以“融入”为准绳，求诸新来乍到之移民，以致不口操新式英语不足示其融入，不数典忘宗不足示其融入，不日日作融入状，不足示其融入。融入二字几成紧箍咒，新之移民颇受折腾。”（联合早报，17-10-2009，言论版）            ...