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Tan (center). with Thum (left), & Hishamuddin. (Photo: MSN) Singapore exile and former student activist, Tan Wah Piow, met with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed on Thursday and invited him to speak at an upcoming conference on democracy next year. The meeting with Tan, along with Singaporean historian Thum Ping-tjin,... 

When I hear PAP ministers talk about how hard it was for them to bounce back after an electoral defeat, I think of all the hundreds of opposition candidates who keep coming back after every defeat, even though they knew defeat was a certainty. So really, come on. Don't make like it was an out-of-body experience, one which was... 

But first, a beef I have against the Lord of the Rings films is that Peter Jackson left out a very interesting episode almost at the end of the real LOTR. In the last film, after the defeat of the Dark Lord, the Hobbits returned an unchanged shire. In the real LOTR, they returned to a shire where Saruman had taken control of...