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There has been so immense publicity of the Singapore-born panda Le le in and outside Singapore and now in Sichuan in China that you might mistake it to be some kind of divine angel that is the panacea to mankind. Of course the countries that directly and indirectly enjoy the nebulous universal sensationality of Le le's divine... 

This morning, I had my favourite Mee Pok and Teh-C Kosong breakfast. The meal cost me $6.60 ($5 for Mee Pok and $1.60 for my drink) On 1 April, the water-hike comes in and one cubic meter of water will cost 20 cents more. How much do you think this meal will cost come 1 April? And how much do you think it will cost on 1 April... 

I was struck by the hubris and naïveté of certain academics from a local university who declared recently that because of the Taylor Swift concerts,Singapore was becoming a vastly more interesting place. Singapore of course had ranked as one of the least interesting countries in the Time Out Index of 2018. I was struck by...