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Not juz the PAP govt question masks’ effectiveness. Public health bodies, including the World Health Organisation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Australian Department of Health, question whether masks are an effective guard against infection and emphasise the importance instead of regular handwashing. From... 

A slew of interpretations of Bong Joon-ho's Parasite have appeared since the film won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Among the more perceptive ones is a nuanced take by sociologist Teo You Yenn, whose pioneering and beautifully written study This Is What Inequality Looks Like is widely read and... 

You have to hand it to the Anglo-Saxons, namely the British and later on the Americans, for shaping much of the modern world. While the British were not the first colonizing power, they were perhaps the smartest. While the Spanish looted the places they went to, the British created a system of never-ending trade relationships...