TR EMERITUS

Russia world chess champion Kasparov disparaged IBM's Deep Blue computer, which defeated the world's best chess player in 1997, as a passing entertainment akin to the wind-up automata of the 18th century. A strong human Jeopardy! player, or a human doctor, may get the answer wrong, but he is unlikely to make a huge blunder... 

In the Budget Statement 2011, our Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam claimed that Singapore has a highly progressive tax system. He said “… it all adds up to a highly progressive fiscal system. If we add up all our taxes – income and property taxes, GST and other indirect taxes – we find that the top 10% of households... 

For each election in Singapore, PAP has cleverly used the media that it fully controls to its advantage. Most writers of government owned media tend to write with absolute favoritism towards PAP. The government owned media has not denied that they are supportive of the ruling government instead of being impartial. Today published...