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I refer to excerpts from the 26 Jun 2014 Straits Times report “Between the covers: The Chinese in Singapore”. It was reported that a book will be published next year detailing the history of Singapore’s Chinese as far back as 500 years before Singapore’s founding in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles. The book will draw evidence... 

DPM Tharman on SSGS in Parliament (8 Jul): "Investment returns in excess of the SSGS rates... are not simply hoarded away in our reserves. 50% of the returns from our reserves flow back to our annual Budget... This currently adds about $8 billion to the Budget annually... CPF monies are invested in SSGS that are guaranteed... 

Straits Times appears to be supportive of the LGBT movement. It has been giving prominent coverage of the NLB episode, trying to sustain and prolong this issue. A few days back, ST editorial even wrote about NLB issue, effectively saying that it is not NLB’s role to ‘censor’ such materials. In today's Opinion page, Tan...