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By Jeremy Koh, Guest Columnist Judging from the number of job fairs conducted last week which was played up by mainstream media, it appeared that Singapore is in a "golden period" instead of a recession: - Media Development Authority: some 10,000 jobs are expected to be created - SingHealth will have more than 10,000 vacancies -... 

By Lee Chong Meng, Guest Columnist The latest saga of David Widjaja & Zhou Zheng at NTU has woken me up from a slumber. The attempt by the mainstream media to cover up the matter has posed question whether the MSM is still credible,as they always boasts of. I read in MSM that the professor tried to snatch the knife from... 

本文针对2009年3月7日在海峡时报交流版上，李资政首席私人秘书徐宏达所写的文章《提倡学习方言是愚蠢的》。 在他的文章里，徐先生认为提倡华族方言是愚蠢的，因为它将威胁新加坡有关双语政策的有效性。他也重申华语将是所有华人的母语。 我只能说徐先生是错得太彻底了。 第一，他所提到所有中国方言都是由来已久的语言。中华语言经一个高度区域化的发展，已经发展成六到十二种地方群体（端赖分类的方法）。主要的地方群体包括吴（9千万人）、闽（7千万人）、广东或粤（7千万人）。闽南（闽方言的南部分支）包括福建...