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The Trizon AFTER four years of renting, Ms Amareen Shami is ready to buy her own home in Singapore. However, the homemaker, who moved here from Dubai with her family, has one condition: It has to be in central Singapore, where she has been living all this while. Ms Shami is not alone. Many Indian expatriates and permanent residents... 

Since 1985, the state has manifested a steady trend towards greater awareness of the need to show respect for personal autonomy as opposed to class bias and eugenics. But why so? The state in Singapore has tended to operate with the ‘modern conception of citizenship as merely a status held under the authority of a state’... 

The deepening trend of price increases in Singapore appears to be laying siege to the remaining bastion of cheap eating – the small food stall. I am referring to the thousands of small eating places in neighbourhood coffee shops and hawker centres that traditionally provide cheap meals for the masses. It is an institution...