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The recent case of the CPIB assistant director misappropriating public money is a good opportunity for the PAP to prove their case that million dollar salaries help stamp out corruption. Going by the PAP logic, corruption could have been prevented if the CPIB officer had been paid much more. So instead of penalising the officer,... 

I refer to the 31 Jul 2013 Straits Times letter “Harsh reality of slower growth” by Mr Ng Ya Ken. In response to a previous letter by Ms Catherine Ho Shull, Mr Ng raises the question of whether the GDP is a bunch of irrelevant numbers and explains its importance in reflecting the amount of consumption, government services,... 

I refer to the 13 Jul 2013 Straits Times article “To do good, be shrewd” by Mr Kishore Mahbubani [1]. Towards the end of his article, Mr Mahbubani wrote: I can anticipate the reactions of many readers to this article. Many will say: "How shrewd of Kishore to use this haze to raise money for the NUS." That is precisely the...