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Mr Lee Kuan Yew Minister Mentor Dear Mr Lee, As you grieve over the loss of Mdm Kwa Geok Choo, many Singaporeans grieve with you. Everytime someone dear to us passes away, the pain is deep. Losing a loved one is the cruelest act that life can inflict on humans. Even as you mourn the loss of Mdm Kwa, I am certain that you think... 

Ancient peoples developed and ritualised mourning practices to express the shared grief of family and friends, and together show not fear or distaste for death, but respect for the dead one; and to give comfort to the living who will miss the deceased. I recall the ritual mourning when my maternal grandmother died some 75 years... 

Singapore’s “international migrant stock” (foreigners) has crossed 40 per cent by the middle of this year, according to the United Nations. The UN’s Singapore country profile puts the international migrant stock in the city-state at 1.96 million and says migrants make up 40.7 per cent of the population. That’s higher...