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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.... 

Once again the hubristic MM Lee Kuan Yew has incurred the wrath of the public, this time the Association of Malay Professionals (AMP). And it is on no less weighty a subject than his disparaging comments on the Singapore Malays in his much- hyped but of doubtful repute book Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going. He commented that...