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A smartphone application is touting itself as helping aspiring Singapore citizens pass a new mandatory online quiz - even though the quiz has yet to be introduced and the government has never given full details of what it will entail. Since Dec 22 last year, a developer called Glovebox has sold an application to prep users for... 

Singaporean Ramzi Mohamed is tired of sleeping in the living room of the two-bedroom apartment he shares with his mother and older brother. His problem is that housing prices in the city-state are up almost 70 percent since 2006 while the 29-year-old gym administrator's monthly salary of 1,200 Singapore dollars ($938) hasn't... 

Hosni Mubarak Despots are good at a lot of things — suppressing dissent, muzzling the press, crushing hope, the whole tool kit of talents necessary to cling to power for 30 or 40 years. What they tend to be a little rusty on are their people skills — the ability to understand the motivations of others and act in a way that...