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I have read in CNA online news yesterday that China has announced a major policy shift, ie, it will allow couples to have up to 3 children after census data showed steep decline in birth rates. China scrapped its decades old one child policy in 2016 replacing it with 2 child limit which has failed to lead to sustained upsurge... 

There’s a joke in Singapore, which has become something of a bade of National Pride. We call ourselves as “Fine City,” because you can get finned for a host of infringements. As well as fines, we famously hang drug traffickers and we cane vandals. Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Independent Singapore took great... 

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean." - This is a good epithet. Typically the names of Gandhi or Nelson Mandela or Mother Teresa come up when one thinks of...