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I express my opinions as a Singapore citizen. I have served my full-time National Service almost 40 years ago and yesterday when I chanced upon the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) pledge on-line again, it drawn on me a very different meaning and feeling, one that I have not given serious thought to over the decades. Let me explain. “We,... 

Over the past few days, the protests have escalated in Hong Kong that police now clashes with protestors resulting in damages and causalities. I have personally seen fake accounts and Internet Brigades from both China and Singapore in full force in social media criticizing the protests. It is so strange why IBs from Singapore... 

This is a translation of an article in Chinese. I am not able to locate the source of the article. Democracy must face 5 cruel realities: 1) The first cruel reality: a Democratic one-man-one-vote system often elects incompetent and even irresponsible leaders. 2) The second cruel reality: democracy cannot solve the problems of...