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By Ben Bland from Asia Sentinel When the Singapore police nailed four suspected members of a loan-sharking syndicate on July 21, they seized the usual paraphernalia: mobile phones and prepaid SIM cards and the time-honored tools of intimidation such as paint to be splashed on the doors of bad debtors and superglue to lock them... 

What is a Pledge? 作者:冀居·谢 去了一个萧锦鸿来了一个维斯瓦（Viswa Sadasivan），使我想起孙文的名言：“世界潮流浩浩荡荡，顺之则昌，逆之则亡。”他所指的潮流就是民主政治 (democracy)。看来官委议员制度接下来应该还有很多微调和改革的空间。 维斯瓦的动议设计得十分狡黠，就刚巧在国庆之后，高调宣读信约之余温尚未散去，人们发现原来执政党并不能够根据信约的原则来治国，很好笑，是不是？ 黄永宏说：词藻优美的歌词或信约不足以确保国家生存繁荣。李资政说破给大家听：拉惹勒南和他共同撰写并修改的信约，原来是一个平等主义的画饼。他认为平等... 

By Jeremy Koh (Guest Columnist) and Eugene Yeo (Consultant Editor) In a Straits Times report, it was reported that the Baby Bonus introduced by the government has failed to boost the flagging birth rate despite the increment last year. (read article here) $230 million was given out by the Government in baby bonus payments last...