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“Do taxes in Singapore really need to go up?”is the title of an article in the constructive, nation-building ST. But it looks as though it’s trying hard to no longer be constructive and nation-building. In the article, it quotes Maybank Kim Eng economist Chua Hak Bin as saying “It is quite remarkable that Singapore,... 

I refer to CNA’s “Singapore’s leadership ‘must not become aged’, renewal needed: DPM Teo“. PAP leadership renewal has always been a joke.  How could “leadership not become aged” when we have dinosaurs as cabinet members? About 40% of cabinet ministers are above 60 years old, with the oldest at 66.  Why Singapore... 

REMEMBER HOW THE leadership in the erstwhile Soviet Union was passed from Leonid Brezhnev to Yuri Andropov to Konstantin Chernenko to Mikhail Gorbachev? Each change of the leader was accompanied by much pomp and circumstance – and not little anticipation. Here's how the New York Times described one of the changeovers: “...when...