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I am one of the "silent majority". I have never written or blogged or Facebooked about national issues. But there's always a time for it. I mourn the loss of our national giant, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. My heart is saddened as if I have lost someone close to me. At the same time, my heart is bursting with pride at the unprecedented... 

Limits on expression hamper creativity. (Photo: Mohd Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images)In building Singapore into a modern economic power, the late Lee Kuan Yew displayed admirable flexibility -- scrapping policies that didn’t work, expanding those that did. His political heirs should be similarly pragmatic about revising the illiberal... 

There’s a big variation in wage ranges amongst world leaders throughout the globe. No one earns as a lot as Singapore’s prime minister, although. In workplace since 2004, Lee Hsien Loong earned an astonishing $2,856,930 from 2008 to 2012 earlier after taking a 28% paycut amid public unhappiness. Immediately his wage nonetheless...