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While our ang moh tua kees are KPKBing about hanging drug mules, detention without trial , LGBT rights and other ang moh preoccupations, they are missing something that will soon come here. Beijing wants to give every citizen a credit rating for everything.  Citizens’ ratings are to be linked with their identity-card numbers.... 

I refer to “Mothers the ‘pillars’ of families: PM Lee in Mother’s Day post”. The PAP government knows that talk is cheap and has kept on talking and talking about ‘one of the toughest jobs’. Many elderly mothers were once full-time housewives who do not have any retirement savings. If the government was ever sincere... 

The persistency of an illiberal government in Singapore is directly linked to PAP’s control of over 80% of our land resource. ‘In rentier states, citizens lacked a fiscal basis for demanding democracy, because the state finances benefits to its citizens through ‘natural resource’ revenues rather than taxes’. (Beblawi...