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Dear Mr Willie Cheng, I refer to your 26 Oct 2012 Straits Times article [1] which began with a reference to Mr S Rajaratnam as one of modern Singapore’s founding fathers. Many books refer to Sir Stamford Raffles as the founder of modern Singapore in 1819: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. If modern Singapore was founded in 1819,... 

The 3 May 2012 Straits Times article "HDB hasn't shrunk flat sizes, says Khaw" reported that a four-room flat has remained at 90 sq m since the mid-90s [1]. The following are 310 HDB resale transactions of four-room flats between Sept 2011 and Aug 2012 where the lease date is 1995 or more recent and the floor size is between... 

With reference to Straits Times's 6th Sept 2012 report “Hand-wringing over sky-high prices”. It was reported that the average price of a 600 square feet (55.7 square metres) apartment in Hong Kong is HK$ 4.5 million [1]. The table below shows that the median price of Hong Kong private residential property in 2011 was in...