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Dear Mr Tang, I hope this email finds you well! We’re launching a new Straits Times Political website just before the National Day Rally. As part of the launch we’ll have a bunch of stuff up – including one bit titled “What I want to hear from PM on Sunday..” i.e what issues/topics/ announcements you personally want... 

Hi guys, you know there was this hooha on Ministry of Manpower and their ergonomic chairs right? [Link to story] In short, they “spent almost $272,000 to buy a total of 472 Herman Miller chairs for its staff.” One chair costs $575 – sparking public debate whether the chair is too expensive and excessive. That was last... 

Singapore invaded by the Japanese in Feb 1942 Another National Day but this one is different. It took me all these years to unlearn that National Day is not our country’s birthday (see  LINK) but our Independence Day and then my own reflection of how our forefathers fought for it, first from the Japanese, then the British...