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From our Correspondent Every year as 9 August approaches, the grassroots machinery of the ruling party will move into high gear to decorate their respective neighborhoods with the national flags. Extra workers will be employed to hang the flags along the roads, on the decks of multi-storey car parks, at the markets, shops, schools and... 

By Eric Ellis from The Age SINGAPOREANS aren’t usually given to open criticism of the Lee family that has ruled them for half a century. Rightly or wrongly, some presume that in their tightly controlled island state, walls have ears, and one never knows who is listening. But this time it’s different. Singaporeans are deeply... 

By Eugene Yeo In a latest survey conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, only 10.9 per cent were satisfied with the overall performance of lawmakers, out of 815 respondents. About 54.5 per cent said their performance was “normal” but 32.3 per cent found it “unsatisfactory”....