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The report of Human Rights Watch on Singapore 2020 makes for dismal reading, because the litany of violations of human rights has not changed very much from previous years. In fact, as in the United States, the pandemic has exposed and deepened structural injustices against the poor in Singapore. As the report observes, "While... 

First it was the hawker centres as a cultural heritage and now a diploma in “hawkerpreneurship”. There are many things wrong in this framing of what was a social economic response during difficult economic environment when jobs were scarce. Let me, as a son of hawker correct the vision before those ministers and members... 

What I often overhear, are ignorant Singaporeans proclaiming that “Western Civilisation” is “white supremacy”! Firstly, that’s a very misconstrued concept held and believed by Asians who feel inferior to the White Man. Truth of the matter is: “the White man is not and no more superior than Asians or any other peoples!” What...