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Whatever we may think about the First Lady of M’sia (FLOM) and her hubbie (First Man of M’sia? FMOM?), let’s give them credit for one thing. They’ve not played the “S’pore” card that Tun M and other M’sian polticians used to play. They’d bash S’pore to distract attention from their actions. They’d blame... 

Tommy Koh wrote a piece titled ‘What China misunderstands Singapore’ in the ST on 21 Oct 16. Before dealing with the content of what he said, let me just take a broad view of what the article is trying to say. My first point, is the author assuming that the Chinese are not that clever and did not understand what Singapore... 

Perfecto Yasay Separation from the US means breaking away from a “mindset of dependency and subservience”: Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay. Duterte now says he only said “separate” not “sever” ties. “It is not severance of ties. When you say severance of ties, you cut diplomatic relations....