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The New Year message by late Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) in 1982 was to have a wholly Singaporean workforce by 1991. The reason he cited was that it was not desirable socially, politically and economically to depend on a large migrant workforce, citing the examples of France, UK and even West Germany, which had large migrant workforces... 

Those intriguing five words were sent via WhatsApp by a friend recently. On reflection, they carry more weight than meets the eye. As is commonly known, SOP stands for Standard Operating Procedure – a very big thing in the civil service and the armed forces. If we go back to the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, the government... 

Can migrant workers in Singapore, most of whom work in the construction and shipping industries, be considered "subalterns"? The Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci first coined the term to identify social groups marginalized and excluded from the socio-economic institutions of society in order to deny their political...