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Part 4 – Parliamentary Elections Since 1965, the Legislature has not been contented with merely refining the broad principles laid out in the Constitution in a consistent manner but bent on expansively inventing new concepts, e.g. Non-constituency MP (1984), GRC (1988), Nominated MP (1990), and the Elected Presidency (1991).... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 14 Aug 2012 letter “Not as sports-crazy as China? Imagine these...” by Mr David Foo. Mr Foo professes to use examples to show how wrong Mr Christopher Ong was when he concluded that uniting the nation through national sports is overblown. Mr Foo should consider the context in which Mr Ong... 

In an eight-paragraph letter, writer Ivan Goh compares the total fertility rate of Chinese in Singapore (1.08), Indians (1.09) and Malay Singaporeans (1.64) and essentially asks why the TFR rate for Malays is so much higher. “Perhaps the Government should find out why Malay women are more willing to have babies,” he wrote....