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Stop Describing Foreign Workers As ‘Talents’!

I had a teacher in Primary school who would rebuke his students for describing persons as “Great”unthinkingly. Historians will only very rarely bestow the word “Great” on someone who has been a transformational figure and changed the world. Very few have earned that title. Figures such as Napoleon, Peter the Great and...

Its not a problem when there is a problem

There is a standard home remedy in my family for people with a bad case of the runs. It’s Coca Cola and salted crackers. Apparently, this remedy is what Indian doctors recommend and when it comes to tummy problems, the Indian doctors are the world’s best. There’s a reason for this. India has one of the largest cases of...

The fact that we are even talking about a Singaporean core shows that our leaders have failed Singaporeans

Have you heard of the Malaysian core? What about the Indonesian core? Or the Vietnamese core? There simply isn’t any talk of such a thing because it is a given, a birthright that needs no debate and discussion. Only in this country do we keep talking about protecting a Singaporean core, even worse about restoring a lost Singaporean...