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Tharman Shanmugaratnam Dear Mr Tharman, I refer to your Budget 2012 debate round-up speech [1]. It was wrong of you to say that Mr Low has shifted position just because previously he said there were too many foreign workers and now he said there must be a careful balance in foreign worker numbers. You are like the hawker who... 

Dear Dr Balakrishnan, I refer to your 9 Jan 2012 parliament replies to questions on Orchard Road flash floods: http://app.mewr.gov.sg/web/contents/contents.aspx?Yr=2012&contId=1514. You explained that the three recent floods over the Orchard Road area are part of a larger, longer rainfall change in Singapore. By plotting... 

Dear Bloomberg editors, I refer to your 25 Jan 2012 editorial on why Singapore has the cleanest government money can buy which was reproduced by the Straits Times on 27 Jan 2012. Our public service has no lack of the best and brightest; many of them take up scholarships at the age of 18 and by the time they are accelerated through...