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Photo: theweek.in New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Ms. Jacinda Ardern has just won a landslide in New Zealand’s latest election. Ms. Ardern won some 49.1 percent of the votes cast and has 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament. It is, as the BBC reported, one of the rare occasions when a New Zealand Government has an outright... 

Singapore’s power structure is essentially an oligarchy or plutocracy of a very wealthy FamiLEE. It's a structural or systemic issue. A small group of people control and run Singapore. They have enough power to turn the country to benefit them and their cronies to the exclusion of others. They have become the only game in... 

Indonesia may not be as rich as Singapore, but it has more democracy. Unlike workers in Singapore, those in Indonesia have their voices heard. With businesses ravaged and unemployment skyrocketing due to Covid-19, the Indonesian government is going all out to encourage investments and create jobs. But part of the reason investors...