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Everyone who was invested as a knight/knight commander/knight grand cross is a knight, no matter which order (order of the British empire, order of the thistle, order of....etc) it is. LKY is not a Brit, hence he is not entitled to be addressed as a "Sir". Foreigners can be made honorary...

Any contradiction to what I said? GCMG is a knighthood. Any British citizen conferred a GCMG can be addressed as a Sir.

GCMG IS a knighthood. However, only British subjects can use the style "Sir". Hence, if the person can be called Sir XXX, then he is a British subject.

Now a PhD student at Cornell. So either kicked out by Princeton, or getting a second PhD.

Actually, the fella was lucky that the drink driver was not charged with drink driving, else he would NOT be able to claim back insurance.

All unsubstantiated statements... People who fled the north to seek refuge in the southern provinces are called..... Hakkas. Hokkiens are the indigenous people of the provinces. Japanese and Koreans are even more similar to Hakka, and many Japanese are actually descendents of Chinese and...

Not sure about you, but I find this eerily familiar. http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8321 Globalist Analysis> Global Society Is Population Growth a Ponzi Scheme? By Joseph Chamie | Thursday, March 04, 2010 The basic pitch of those promoting population growth is...

The joker made two mistakes. First is to convert to Singapore citizenship, the second is to get a PhD.

Tightening of Rules for Driving License Conversion ? In light of the recent traffic accident, we should petition the government to tighten rules on driving license conversion. According to the traffic police web site, apparently, ANY driving license can be converted to a Singapore one as...

Not true. If the son leaves the country before he gets his pink IC, he can defer his NS and renounce when he is 21.

Once the child gets Singapore citizenship, he cannot give it up till he is 21.

Hmmm... I don't quite get the logic. Does he mean that the new immigrants will look after our old people ? I doubt so.

It say Bowen Secondary... The location of the exhibition was at AJC.

Hakkas are migrants from northern China during troubled periods in China. In fact, it is the LEAST corrupted language, and is supposedly closest to the language they speak in ancient times. You have obviously never been to China. There are large populations of Hakkas in Canton and Fujian, and...

ANY data mining tool, or prediction model, is only as good as the way the data was sampled. I would suspect that a majority of those polled would not tell the truth, especially the opposition voters. If they are relying on these predictions, I think PAP is a goner.