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Though one can hold power in one's lifetime after being a prime minister, can one usurp the modern history of Singapore too? After reading "Don't let S'pore pioneers be a lost generation" by Phua Mei Pin of ST, I started thinking of Dr Toh Chin Chye, Goh Keng Swee, S Rajaratnam, E W Barker and other PAP old guards. It also got... 

"The Taiwanese take great pride in casting their vote and they see it as a way to tell their government how well or not it has performed in the past term." This is how Ms Frederique Soh characterised the recently held presidential elections in Taiwan. Ms Soh, a SDP youth wing member, was part of the election observation delegation... 

Singaporeans seem to be imagining that they have forced the government, by giving the worst ever electoral results in GE and PE in 2011,  to start in a new direction in remuneration of politicians. Many Singaporeans are so happy that with the PAP's review of salaries. What Singaporeans fail to realise is that they have just...