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The Economist, 12 November 2009 AT CHINA’s 60th anniversary bash last month, Zhang Yuanyuan, a China-born, permanent resident of Singapore, was caught on camera professing her love for her native country. The clip caused a storm in the island state; it was the latest sign of resentment towards incomers and evidence that immigration... 

By Sim Kwang Yang from Malaysiakini [This article is republished in full here with permission from Malaysiakini Chief Editor Steven Gan] About six or seven years ago, one of the Malaysiakini editors invited me to write a weekly column for them. Since then, I have been very committed to my new vocation of writing commentary on... 

By Janet Steele from Malaysiakini [This article is republished in full here with kind permission from Malaysiakini Chief Editor Steven Gan] "We certainly lost the Internet war, the cyber-war... It was a serious misjudgment. We made the biggest mistake in thinking that it was not important." - Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,...