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Those familiar with Singapore's political history will remember the role played by student activists in the '50s and early '60s. But that ended when schools were depoliticised after independence. For better or worse, schools have been neutral and independent institutions of learning for the past few decades. So I was surprised... 

Mariam Mokhtar, The Malaysia Chronicle Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is running scared. Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad did not mince his words when he accused the federal government of manoeuvring to dissolve the Selangor state legislative assembly by appointing Mohd Khusrin Munawi as the state secretary. Khalid said, “This... 

We have been told that the reason why we need immigrants is because the economy is creating more jobs that there are S’poreans to fill them; we are picky about the jobs we are willing to do; we are “less hard-driving and hard-striving” because “the spurs are not stuck into the hide”; and society is greying fast because...