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April 2019 marks the 5th anniversary of South Korea’s biggest ferry disaster where over 300 people lost their lives, most of them students from the same high school on a school trip to the island of Jeju. Countless videos have been posted looking into how the tragedy happened, the failings of authority-coordinated rescue... 

Click to enlarge State Media has given prominent coverage to Lee Hsien Loong’s participation in the One Belt One Road Summit, after he was humiliatingly left out 2 years ago. But they will not show one picture which speaks a thousand words. It is the group picture of the leaders attending the Summit, and it shows Lee Hsien... 

Tharman Shanmugaratnam In the big IMF/ World Bank pow-pow where central bankers were talking aloud about the dangers of govt’s interfering with their central banks’ independence, our very own Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a deputy prime minister and the chairman of its central bank joined in this concern about independence with,...