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It’s blatantly clear there’s insufficient masks in our national stockpile. Factually: – Government released 5 million masks to retailers. – Singapore population: 5.7 million. These will last only a few days at most. Factually: – Government will release 5.2 million masks to 1.3 million households. – Resident population:... 

The first time I heard of Operation Coldstore, an exercise which saw the arrest and detention of more than 130 opposition leaders was when I was helping to edit a small collection of poems and prose on imprisonment and exile with the late Mr Tan Jing Quee in 2008. We were talking casually about the contributors to the collection... 

We all remember when the population white paper came out in 2013 and everybody objected so loudly. What happened after that? We were told the idea of 6.9 million people by 2030 would be reviewed and immigration policies would change but what has changed? In 2004 there were a little over 4.1 million people in Singapore, today...