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Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 26 Apr 2011 report of MM Lee’s pre-election message. You referred to MM Lee as modern Singapore’s founding father. The term ‘modern’ is unclear because what is modern today may be ancient decades down the road, just as what we now see as ancient was actually modern decades ago. If you... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 23 Apr 2011 letter by Mr Ang Kok Thiam. Mr Ang accuses the Workers' Party of asking the wrong questions and of proposing simplistic and ill-considered solutions because he feels that the solutions are detrimental to existing home owners. Average HDB resale prices have shot up by more than $150,000... 

Dear PM Lee, I refer to the 6 Apr 2011 Straits Times report on why Singapore cannot afford to have a bad PM. No Singaporean would want a bad PM. But there is no basis to say that the democratic elections of the US have a greater chance of churning out bad presidents compared to the tracking system in China. The US has had so...