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I refer to the 11 Aug 2013 Straits Times excerpt “Singapore's economy in a global world” from Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s new book [1]. Mr Lee said that Singapore inequality is due to the enormous supply of Chinese and Indian workers in China and India. Does it not occur to him that most Western nations have far less inequality... 

I refer to the 16 Aug 2013 Straits Times letter “Mr Lee is indeed Singapore’s ‘special one’” by Mr K. Kalidas. Western leaders generally do not contest for power beyond two, three terms even though they can if they wanted to. Choosing to step down after three decades in power means Mr Lee far overstayed his time in... 

I refer to the 6 Aug 2013 Straits Times report of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s views extracted from his new book “One man’s view of the Word”. Mr Lee claimed that he would introduce a baby bonus equal to two years of the average Singaporean’s salary to prove that super-sized monetary incentives only have a marginal effect on...