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Less Than Two Weeks To Go

Thanks to Trump, the Dictatorship of Zambezistan is far coming closer to home than we could ever have imagined. The USA has always been the beacon of Democracy and rule of Law for people around the world and its' power of American Democracy was always at the heart of the American Dream. Now what do people have to look for? European...

440,000 CPF members qualify for matched top-ups show the dark side of the CPF scheme

“440,000 CPF members qualify for matched top-ups” (Straits Times; 7 Jan 2021) is good news for the New Year. But this also unveiled the dark side of the CPF scheme. According to the CPF Board chief executive Augustine Lee, “About half of CPF members turning 55 today have yet to attain the Basic Retirement Sum. This matching...

Don’t Believe the State Media When They Say There’s Internal Conflict in Reform Party

Andy Zhu (left) The Straits Times published an article entitled “Former Reform Party chairman Andy Zhu and others form new political party, Singapore United Party” at the end of which they said, “ they had reached out to [me] for comment’. This is yet another example of the tricks perpetrated by the state media in their...