TR EMERITUS

I bought a car, the first that I have ever owned, from the junkyard when I was a student at the University of Georgia in Athens and paid all of $50 for it – with the COE thrown in. Okay, it was nothing to look at. In fact, it was arguably the ugliest looking car in the world, the Americans didn't call it the 'Gremlin' for... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 14 Aug 2012 letter “Not as sports-crazy as China? Imagine these...” by Mr David Foo. Mr Foo professes to use examples to show how wrong Mr Christopher Ong was when he concluded that uniting the nation through national sports is overblown. Mr Foo should consider the context in which Mr Ong... 

In an eight-paragraph letter, writer Ivan Goh compares the total fertility rate of Chinese in Singapore (1.08), Indians (1.09) and Malay Singaporeans (1.64) and essentially asks why the TFR rate for Malays is so much higher. “Perhaps the Government should find out why Malay women are more willing to have babies,” he wrote....