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I refer to the article 'Some F&B outlets pass on costs as electricity bills soar ' (BT weekend, 19 to 20 Mar) It states that "Even before the Ukraine crisis, electricity bills have risen by between 80 per cent and 300 per cent since late last year for food and beverage operators (F&B) to whom The Business Times spoke." The... 

Lim Tean said that the most urgent task is to stop the wealth transfer from citizens to the state. I cannot agree more with this. For example, HDB would build new BTO flats and sell them to Singaporeans at a discounted rate relative to the resale market prices. They consider this a ‘subsidy’, and a policy which Singaporeans... 

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, American economic advisers convinced Russia’s leaders to focus on economic reforms and put democracy on the backburner – where Putin could easily extinguish it when the time came. This is no trivial historical contingency. Had Russia become a democracy, there would...