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Some people think that the current bank failures in US would not be worse than 2008 Lehman Brothers Subprime crisis but the situation may be even worse. We have a situation whereby consumers were too used to low mortgage rates which was similar to subprime and now, there is an aggressive spike in interest rates. Apart from that,... 

For those who believed that my brother’s recent judgment awarding damages to Allan Mah Kiat Seng was a blow at last against the long standing abuse of overweening police powers of arbitrary arrest and detention, the news today that Mah Kiat Seng will actually have to pay some $8,000 more to the AG in costs than he receives... 

Lee Kuan Yew famously told Singaporeans: “Follow that rainbow, go ride it.” The words of Singapore’s late founding father meant something then but rings hollow today. Ask the young and the not-so-young now: do they see a rainbow, where oh where is that rainbow? As a country, we seem to be drifting sideways, directionless,...