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Lim Tean said: 'It is a disgrace to be paying part-time Mayors and MPs $600,000 and $192,000 a year when 35% of the workforce is taking home $2400 or less each month or are unemployed!' The mayor is typically the highest ranking official of the local or municipal government. In global cities such as London and New York, the... 

Former top advisor of HK government Wong Chack-kie has recently whacked out at Carrie Lam: "If a leader is of any virtue, he or she should resign in shame after seeing so many elderly people die of policy faults”: This is what true leadership is about! It is not just about being given power, but also about taking responsibility.... 

In the 1980's the soviet economy was in free fall and Gorbachev was trying his best to keep it alive. President Yeltsin expressed great surprise that the Donbass region of Ukraine, the most heavily Russian part of that nation, voted overwhelmingly to break up the USSR. Even the citizens of Belarus were equally emphatic. Poland...