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Photo: theweek.in New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Ms. Jacinda Ardern has just won a landslide in New Zealand’s latest election. Ms. Ardern won some 49.1 percent of the votes cast and has 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament. It is, as the BBC reported, one of the rare occasions when a New Zealand Government has an outright... 

“150,000 Singaporeans from 1- and 2-room HDB flats to get grocery vouchers is not good news for neighborhood provision shops.” These lower income Singaporeans living in 1- and 2-room HDB flats are the natural customers of neighborhood provision shops due to proximity and convenience. The public media has announced that grocery... 

Singapore’s power structure is essentially an oligarchy or plutocracy of a very wealthy FamiLEE. It's a structural or systemic issue. A small group of people control and run Singapore. They have enough power to turn the country to benefit them and their cronies to the exclusion of others. They have become the only game in...