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Lies are sometimes told to little children to protect them from the truth or to make their lives a bit more magical. Do adult women also have to be lied to save them from themselves? I'm talking about the great mammography deception. We've been told that this test is simple, helps in the...

Nowadays it seems I can't eat at a hawker centre without being interrupted a few times by people selling packs of tissue paper. They're usually elderly or handicapped. I feel sorry for them but I can't buy from everyone. They also seem to push women harder to buy their products. It's gotten so...

I was not born a Singaporean. I spent my early years in a neighbouring country where I was treated as a second class citizen. I remember the school principal coming to class and asking the teacher how the Bumiputera students were doing , happily ignoring the rest of us. If England is to...

Before the new terminal airport opened, T3 boasted it'd the latest green thing - a wall of live plants. I couldn't wait to see it. Alas, what we've got is so pathetic, it should be called not a wall but a see-thru beaded curtain. 'Wall' suggests dense planting, impenetrability and yet all one...

Thank God the old guard is back and Josie and gang have been defeated. I'm amazed that a woman of Thio Su Mien's calibre could be so naive as to think that taking over Aware surreptitiously would mean the end of the old leadership and its goals. Women like Constance Singham cannot be ground...