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It's easy to make fun of Marie Kondo, the decluttering guru with elvish good looks. Her KonMari Method, so summarizable in the mantra to throw out everything and keep only the things that "spark joy," sounds the definition of twee. And yet, as the sale of millions of copies of her books around the world attests, she has touched... 

When Heng Swee Keat was anointed as the heir apparent to Lee Hsien Loong as the next PAP leader, you could sense the relief amongst PAP cadres that at least Chan Chun Sing would not be leading them. To the PAP cadres, Heng Swee Keat may be the best thing next to sliced bread. But Michael Barr correctly points out that he is... 

We all know that from the mid 80’s onwards Singapore took a very wrong turn when it embraced Neo-liberal economics and focused almost exclusively on supporting businesses via GLC’s and Foreign Multinationals at every other expense. Before that we built a strong foundation and that still exists today. Although under flawed...