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We have so many plans for Singapore, in terms of new industries, new businesses, new schools, new opportunities, new towns to live in, new parks — a new society to be built for the next generation. And what we need are new people — our children. That was what PM Lee apparently said to Mr. Takehiko Koyanagi of Nikkei Asian... 

Since many Singaporeans do not read Cantonese, they will turn to the mainstream media in Singapore, which are favourable towards the Chinese government and HK Establishment. Yet, upon deeper thinking, the prolonged protests in Hong Kong have brought up some very interesting observations. These media will hardly show police... 

Click to enlarge I attended a Talk by Professor Daniel Ziblatt the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University and co-author of the New York Times bestseller "How Democracies Die" (2018) earlier this evening. The talk was essentially about the tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism in...