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By Abdul Gafoor, Social Correspondent I was watching a two part documentary on the Shahs of Iran since 2009 is the 30th anniversary of the over throw of the monarchy by the masses in Iran. What was interesting were the similarities in the stories of the Shahs of Iran and the Lees of Singapore. I knew the Shah- Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcBbG-y-Jho&feature=channel I... 

From our Correspondent In an article written by Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo and published on Yale Global Online about Tibet, he wrote: "(In) Singapore, the tensions which naturally arise when different ethnic and religious groups living side by side respond at different speeds to globalisation cannot be wished away;... 

By Subith Sitharthan, Political Correspondent The legitimacy of the Singaporean government is predicated on the idea of a meritocratic technocracy. A tiny number of career civil servants play a leading role in setting policy within their ministries and other government-linked bureaucracies, leading both an elite corps of senior...