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The late LKY had said that the reason why we don’t have minimum wage is that Economics 101 showed that if the market wont bear it, it will mean unemployment, his adage was that full employment is paramount. Not an unusual objective, e.g. one of the objectives of US Federal Reserve is to sustain a high level of employment. A... 

What is a citizen’s pledge to be loyal to a country, to protect a country when one becomes a citizen of a country? A citizen of a country, by virtue of birth or choice, by immigration, is supposed to be loyal to that country, to defend that country if it goes to war. What are the official definitions to tell you what a citizen... 

28,000 people at a Pink Dot event is the equivalent of a crowd of 330,000 in the UK. or 1.7m in the US. Pretty impressive number then. FT columnist does the sums: Singapore’s annual Pink Dot gay pride gathering attracts big crowds. There were 28,000 people there last year. That is a large turnout in a country with a population...