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Dear Mr Lee Kuan Yew, I refer to the 2 Dec 2011 Straits Times print of excerpts from your new book. You wrote that Tan Lark Sye and his supporters believed communist China was a great nation and could back them. Exactly what backing did Tan Lark Sye need from communist China? Money? No, he had millions of that himself. Manpower?... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 20 Dec 2011 letter by Mr Samson Guanglin Lee. Mr Lee points to train disruptions in Japan and Spain to justify why a major breakdown in 24 years of SMRT operations is understandable and forgivable. SMRT has been operating only two lines for much of the past 24 years with the Circle Line being... 

Dear Professor Vogel, I refer to the 14 Nov 2011 Straits Times print of excepts from your new book on Deng Xiaoping. You said Lee Kuan Yew came of age fighting colonialism and was leader of our country’s revolutionary struggle. That statement is not accurate. Anti-colonial and nationalistic sentiments emerged amongst the local...