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The first time I heard of Operation Coldstore, an exercise which saw the arrest and detention of more than 130 opposition leaders was when I was helping to edit a small collection of poems and prose on imprisonment and exile with the late Mr Tan Jing Quee in 2008. We were talking casually about the contributors to the collection... 

We all remember when the population white paper came out in 2013 and everybody objected so loudly. What happened after that? We were told the idea of 6.9 million people by 2030 would be reviewed and immigration policies would change but what has changed? In 2004 there were a little over 4.1 million people in Singapore, today... 

I saw a report that there is a large increase in the actual number of people who are infected in China. This increase is not caused by the spread of the virus, but by the availability of test kits to identify the infected people. The number reported previously was about 10,000 infected people, most of whom are in China. The...