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During Singapore’s recently concluded General Election, I received a few notes from friends commenting about the lack of diversity amongst the ruling party’s candidates. While the ruling party did field candidates with Muslim sounding names, there were no noticeable Indian faces. To compound matters, the Deputy Prime Minister... 

Excellent article by Martin Wolf of Financial Times on the key basic qualities needed in a successful and stable modern developed-economy democracy. How many of these qualities do we have in our society and polity in Singapore and if not, why not ? Vote wisely for the parties that will best bring about this kind of future for... 

On Monday, Dr Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, warned that the US is not responding like other countries who have shown success in containing the coronavirus, and has allowed the virus to spread much more widely and rapidly. “We’re not in the situation of New Zealand or Singapore or Korea where a new...