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NHK World the international service of Japan's largest broadcasting organisation produced a couple of weeks ago a short feature to talk about “the other side” of the Singapore success story; the people “money no enough” side of the story as I like to put it. There are 300,000 - 400,000 elderly Singapore citizens who... 

A few days ago, four friends and I travelled to KL by car. At Tuas checkpoint, we were told to get out of our car and were escorted to the immigration office with our passports still in the hands of the officer. At the office, it turned out that one of us had a "problem". He had obtained the magistrate’s permission to leave... 

Nations, culture, people, what account for their differences? The differences seem random and chaotic. However, Chaos Theory shows that behavior of dynamical systems are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Francis Fukuyama in his ‘The Origins of Political Order | Neuroanthropology’, made essentially the same points.The...