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Dear Chief Justice, I refer to your speech at the New York State Bar Association Seasonal Meeting as reported by the Straits Times under the following titles: * CJ on judicial independence and judicial review - 28th Oct 2009 * Raffles, MM Lee and the rule of law - 28th Oct 2009 * Bridging the gulf between ideal principle and... 

Dear Mr Shanmugam, I refer to your speech at the New York State Bar Association Seasonal Meeting as reported by the Straits Times on 29 Oct 2009. You said that Singapore had a weak economy back in 1965 when our per capita GDP was US$500.  'Weak' as we were then, we nevertheless had the fourth highest per capita GDP in Asia... 

In  my weekly visits to give tutorial lessons to a group of Pasir Ris Street 71 students, I came across a group of rowdy and boisterous youths (around 8 of them, at most 10) occupying the whole area of the Senior Citizen's Corner at Block 757. I saw this group of youths puffing cigarettes and laughing boisterously that those...