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To mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is today publishing a grim portrait gallery of 35 presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison, torture or murder journalists. Most of these press freedom predators... 

What a lesson in check and balance the British High Court had just administered. Something we should learn. The British Prime Minister and her ministers relying on executive prerogative (so-called the royal prerogative), the same prerogative that our own PM and his ministers and a lot of governments use time and again, determine... 

Now here is a simple Made-in-Singapore economic strategy contradiction for you: Unlimited access to cheap foreign labour brings down labour costs faster and more easily than productivity gains (notice I mention labour costs not unit labour costs). So long as the natives don't squeal, this is an easy option to maintain competitiveness,...