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Michael Lim P L: Please lah, the decision to outsource security service to private company is to save cost and improve efficiency, nothing wrong what! Who so stupid to want to pay more tax? Ten reasons why outsourcing is a stupid idea: 1. Private companies ultimately put shareholders and profits above the public need. 2. Cost-cutting... 

When Papies set in to rule fifty years ago, the crime rate were reduced slowly and drastically. Besides political opponents who did no crime and none was ever tried, the blue collar crimes were contained. The leaders then were bent to provide a safety environment for the citizens, reduced money laundering, demolished gangsters... 

NUS I am distressed to know that foreign faculty has become a significant majority at some social science departments in local universities ("Wanted: Local talent in varsities"; last Saturday). Talent comes with many different passports. Our universities should rightly attract brilliant minds from all over the world, and must...