TR EMERITUS

The recent detention without trial of a 17 year old boy shocks me. He has not even been enlisted into the army. The Ministry of Home Affairs statement of 10 February 2020 [LINK] claims that they had since 2017 tried to steer him clear of ISIS. But they (and here I presume some religious organisations would have been involved)... 

I want to share my thoughts about calls by some people for the government to release $5000/ from their CPF accounts to tide them over during this very difficult period. The call is a popular one, an understandable one and one that I fully empathise with, however, I have my reservations. One, not everybody has sufficient balance... 

30 years after Taiwan came out from authoritarian rule, it's now having conversations of how judges then used to be corrupt and did the work of the authoritarian ruling government. "Whereas grand justices would rule independently in a functioning democracy, they served as puppets of the authoritarian government during the Martial...