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What does a strong mandate for the PAP mean? It means that the people has faith that the party will look after its interest and will therefore entrust the party with unfettered power to do the job. Depending on the economic and political state of the country, and the government the power is given to, it may be a good thing or... 

Lee Hsien Yang says that, "the PAP has lost its way", and that, "today's PAP is no longer the PAP of my father". Indeed, when you look at the PAP candidates today, except for four (Hsien Loong, Shan, Chee Hean and Iswaran), all of the PAP candidates today only entered politics after 2000. In fact, look at the chart below - do... 

Over a period of 35 years, several manpower ministers failed to find a solution to the challenge of getting employers to give preference to locals for jobs. They kept to the same strategy - getting employer to pay a levy to employ foreigners and set limits on the proportion of foreign workforce. The strategy did not work. Foreigners...