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I refer to the article '50-year lease option broadly a like-for-like replacement for Ang Mo Kio Sers owners: Desmond Lee' (ST, 17 Jul). It states that "The 50-year lease rehousing option broadly provides a "like for like" replacement for Ang Mo Kio residents who do not need a fresh 99-year lease, said National Development Minister... 

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Many people in Singapore said that we should not have allowed the president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, into Singapore. I disagree with that view. I want to share my reasons. Mr. Rajapaksa was elected as the president of Sri Lanka under a democratic process. Although Sri Lanka had serious economic... 

At the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, John Maynard Keynes proposed a World bank that would not be subjugated by the U.S. and a truly global currency where developing nations could secure foreign exchange without the need to attract private capital. Of course, the Americans rejected both ideas. They favored a path that would...