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Interesting that this never ever got reported by our constructive, nation-building media or mentioned by Yaacob, the propaganda ministry, MDA and IDA The solution to improving our score is ensuring speedy and cheap online access should top the list. So come on Yaacob, MDA and IDA: stop trying to fix netizens and get us cheaper... 

We refer to the article “OCBC gives staff $3m in Wage Credit payouts” (Straits Times, May 19). 63% of employers won’t increase pay more? It states that “While 37 per cent of employers surveyed said they would give staff larger salary increments, the rest said they would not change pay levels”. Does this indicate that... 

This is Ibaraki, the garden of Japan. The deep alluvial soils can produce up to five vegetable crops a year if properly looked after … a line of young men are bent double, a knife in one hand a basket in the other. They are rapidly cutting the tall, green spinach and placing each bunch carefully in a basket. The only Japanese...