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Dear Straits Times,   I refer to the letter by Mr Joshua Loh dated 24 Sept 2010.   Mr Loh explains the many positive effects of the YOG as being the chance for thousands of volunteers and athletes to participate, to learn and to be enriched.  While athletes from all over the world benefitted from this golden opportunity to... 

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...