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Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 26 Apr 2011 report of MM Lee’s pre-election message. You referred to MM Lee as modern Singapore’s founding father. The term ‘modern’ is unclear because what is modern today may be ancient decades down the road, just as what we now see as ancient was actually modern decades ago. If you... 

1．  成立一个独立专业的咨询团，参照世界各国政治职务薪金，结合新加坡的资源和人口，定立一个基本薪金。 政治职务的薪金只能和世界各国的政治职务薪金比照。不能偷换概念与那些唯利的企业总裁并论，同时政治职务不是企业总裁，可以环球打工。 2． ... 

Dear PM Lee, I refer to the 6 Apr 2011 Straits Times report on why Singapore cannot afford to have a bad PM. No Singaporean would want a bad PM. But there is no basis to say that the democratic elections of the US have a greater chance of churning out bad presidents compared to the tracking system in China. The US has had so...