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George Yeo commenting on Egypt : ‘Unless you adjust to changes in the world, changes will be forced upon you, in a way that doesn’t give you time to prepare……. So it is better to make small adjustments the way we have done because we are a small country adjusting to new technology to globalization, to new opportunities.’... 

CAIRO:  You can’t fool all the people all the time. The hawks of Egypt’s current regime should have learnt this lesson, if not over the past 30 years, then over the past 11 days. As the events leading to the Friday of Departure today escalated, the counter strategy of a government well-versed in the arts of repression and... 

As much as finger pointing Lee Kuan Yew may want to do at Muslims and Islam in Singagpore, he probably need to first remember that Singapore never saw race riots until he and his party came to power. Singapore's multiracial history started even before the arrival of Raffles, though hardly mentioned by nationalised history textbooks....