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The 1 Jan 2016 11 pm Chinese news reported some organisations adopting the new SG51 insignia for 2016. When we celebrate SG50 or SG51, we are celebrating the 50 or 51 years since 1965. That means we are not celebrating the years before 1965. We are not celebrating 1960, the year Tan Howe Liang won us our first Olympic silver... 

I refer to the 16 Nov 2015 Straits Times letter “Dangers of a politicised elected presidency” by Calvin Cheng. Calvin wrote: The problem with the elected presidency goes beyond the quality of the candidates - the problem is that the process has been politicised. It is clear from the previous presidential election that candidates... 

I refer to Institute of Policy Studies’ post election conference slides: Post election survey 2015 (S1_GK_POPS-8_GE2015_291015_Web1.pdf). Response rate The survey response rate of 24.5% (page 10) is rather low. This may compromise the randomness of the survey. Percentage importance VS mean score IPS ranks “need for efficient...