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When Lee Hsien Loong was a student, his father got him to study Russian. Strange to think that of all the languages, Russian should have been the pick. But not surprising when you consider that the Soviet Union was then a superpower, and Lee Kuan Yew, after his visits and meetings with their leaders, told his biographer Alex... 

“NOL did not adapt fast enough, says CEO”. This was the chilling headlines that appeared in Thursday's Straits Times. "The world has changed,” its chief executive Ng Yat Chung explained, adding that NOL (Neptune Orient Lines) was “a bit slow and reluctant to change". As a result, Singapore's home-grown marine carrier... 

Irene Ng Former MP Irene Ng is besotted with the sacrifices that she and other PAP politicians are supposed to have made. In her latest Facebook postings, she again brings up the subject of sacrifice. On the stroke suffered by Heng Swee Keat, she writes of how “Mr Heng sacrificed family time and his own welfare to carry out...