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English translation for: 揭开行动党接班人的政治烟幕 On 16 January 2015, Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with the local Chinese media that his successor may be already in the Cabinet. But he was not completely sure about it. Those words are simply political smokescreen. From LKY to LHL, the PAP has already... 

Lee Kuan Yew The most brilliant politician you never knew is on his deathbed. Hooked up to a ventilator – a contraption designed to replace the most basic of human functions –  a withered 91 year old faces the inevitable. Alongside him, a nation awaits, heavy with the knowledge that for many, their world will never be... 

Remember in school days, that 1 or 2 classmates nodding off at the back of the class room? Suddenly woken with a jolt from the irate teacher … only to ask or say the wrong things? This was what the writer thought when he perused MPs’ responses to Budget 2015. The main theme of the responses were worries over the good ship...