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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend the shaving of beards as a precaution against Covid 19 infection. The Iranian, Taliban and other mad mullahs will say Wuhan virus is CIA or Chinese plot against Islam. The outbreak in Iran may not have come from China, nor an ethnic Chinese may have brought it in. Int’l... 

A good way for a business to survive the economic crisis is to cut down on expenses, of which a large part is on wages. They should encourage their workers to take no pay leave. The workers will suffer a loss of income, but remain employed. There is no need for the business to retrench any of its workers. Some workers have savings... 

I remember a former boss telling me that I was probably too intelligent to be of any use to anyone. I remember this backhanded compliment because it’s a phrase that is often easily applied to our government officials. Singapore is Confucius’s wet dream. We are a society that is obsessed with the rule of the scholar. Our...