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Dr Vivian Balakrishnan For those of you whose hobby is to look for ministerial gaffes, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan is probably your poster-boy. He is the gift that keeps on giving. Put in charge of staging the inaugural youth Olympics in Singapore, Dr Balakrishnan has managed turn the event into a tragi-comedy. He heads the MCYS,... 

Ancient peoples developed and ritualised mourning practices to express the shared grief of family and friends, and together show not fear or distaste for death, but respect for the dead one; and to give comfort to the living who will miss the deceased. I recall the ritual mourning when my maternal grandmother died some 75 years... 

Singapore’s “international migrant stock” (foreigners) has crossed 40 per cent by the middle of this year, according to the United Nations. The UN’s Singapore country profile puts the international migrant stock in the city-state at 1.96 million and says migrants make up 40.7 per cent of the population. That’s higher...