Understanding the US government shutdown
Dr Christopher Balding I have been getting questions from Chinese and Singaporean readers about the US government shutdown, so let me try and simplify and answer some of the questions I have been getting. Why did the US government shut down? The US government is marked by a strict separation of powers. The President heads the...
If tuition is unnecessary, why the supplementary and remedial classes?
It sounds so contradictory. The MOE as well as the PAP ministers all say the same thing. Tuition is not necessary. Ya, right. Then why are are there so many supplementary and/or remedial classes for students such that they have to be overworked? Ms Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Education. She believes...
Chicken games
According to CNN International, Singapore's prime minister openly criticized the United States over the government shutdown and ongoing deadlock over the debt ceiling, calling them "problems you have created for yourself in a game of chicken." CNN's interviewer Patricia Wu turned the tables back on him, asking if the U.S. would...
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