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Dear UN-Habitat,   I refer to the 23 Sept 2010 Straits Times report of the conferment of the 2010 UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Awards to Singapore's HDB for providing one of Asia's and the World's greenest, cleanest and most socially conscious housing programmes.   Ms Jane Nyakairu, chief of information services at UN-Habitat,... 

Dear Straits Times,   I refer to the letter by Dr Oh Jen Jen dated 24 Sept 2010.   Dr Oh explains the World Giving Index entirely in terms of her own personal experiences of the helpfulness of the people she met on her trips to other countries.  Dr Oh should realise that 'helping strangers' is just one of three categories... 

As I am writing this article on my way from Shen Zhen (where I am based now) to Shanghai, my heart is heavy. Too much has transpired in the last 18 to 24 months. Almost every conversation that I have with my family, my friends is about where this country is going and how things have changed. Besides the usual rant on immigration...