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The way the poll is conducted is almost guaranteed to get such results. Who you support - Russia, Ukraine or remain neutral is a political question. Do you sympathize with Ukraine / Ukrainians is a moral question. These two are completely different questions appealing to different values...

A couple of key points: 1) Saddam and Ghadaffi got whacked at a time when US held absolute supremacy in all areas of global affairs. That is no longer the case. 2) Most countries hold majority of their foreign reserves in USD, Singapore is no exception. 3) The reason why most countries prefer...

You need to be more specific about what you mean by "support" and also from which point of view. Does support mean things like personal preference and maybe free things like prayers and social media posting or actual tangible stuff like money and life? Also is the support from my own POV or...

The problem with a lot of these European nations is they are treating national security as if they are entering a commercial contract like signing a 2 year mobile data deal with Singtel. Many of them pay little attention to managing their security either in the form of military, economic or...

All these Western officials talk a good game, but if we take a step back and recall - what did each of them really do to help Ukraine? Pathetically close to nothing. Germany - 5,000 helmets + 1 field medical facility Canada - Small contingent of trainers that escaped from Ukraine at the...

If there's one thing I like about CCS, it is his candidness. He's openly snob and makes politically incorrect elitist statements that other fellow ministers only dare to admit in private. Whenever he gets into stupid moments like the STEM or cotton saga, he simply laughs smugly with nary a care...

No. Who told you that?

The ladies are the first half, once the ladies go bonkers many beta males will also convince themselves they love or at least pretend to love K-culture in order to please the ladies. Yar, Netflix found out you can make really cheap cheezy dramas and yet still get the same viewership. After...

The idea for raising rates is not to use the increased interest rate to knock off the inflation rate, that would never work. Rather what they are hoping to do is to accelerate capital inflow by creating a cycle whereby the increased attractiveness of USD denominated assets raises the Dollar...

The state media encouraging Singaporean families to embrace everything of a foreign country!? WTF is this nonsense? Worst thing is most of these Korean cultural exports bear little resemblance to real Korean lives, they are meant to be escapist in nature for locals there to indulge in a fantasy...

I remembered preliminary data from UK indicating vaccine efficacy against Omicron will drop to a negligible level after 8 weeks, so it's not surprising that death toll is climbing up exponentially. I suspect it's not that Israel death is very high, more like the other countries' health...

Although it might have been overblown as this news outlet has a propensity to exaggerate and dramatize how #1 Taiwan is, but generally it's quite possible many Japanese do have a positive view for Taiwan. However, that's not really the crux of the issue. The real question is would the Japanese...

Because of their "me" and "them" culture, it can take a while for Japs to warm up and show their real selves. Not to say it's particularly bad or what, but once you really interact and work with them for a while, the façade comes off and they aren't any different from other people. When I first...

It is understandable that US is provoking Russia with the Ukraine issue to reinforce the relevance of NATO and prevent the Europeans from cooperating with Russia. However, such a tactic is not without risk. In the event that Russia either directly strikes Ukraine or takes further action to...

Sounds like a socially awkward individual with no basic etiquette. Don't say first time meeting a date, even meeting a client one is not familiar with, who the heck wears a Grab T-shirt and just pop out like that?

These executive leadership / management programs by "prestigious" universities are a joke. I have attended a similar company sponsored 3 month course with a well-known western university as well. They are not cheap, mine costed the company ~$40k for such a short stint and that was many years...

He's lucky we have already completed the course, otherwise all the professionals in class will be sniggering at him :roflmao:

I remembered when this company IPO-ed, my classmate was going on and on about a "high tech" firm finally coming to IPO in Singapore. He applied for a lot and subsequently bought a lot more at a higher price in the open market. He sort of chided me on the importance of looking into the future as...

Boris doesn't really have any choice, it's a forgone conclusion. Anything else would have triggered a party revolt and caused the government to collapse.

Er... If he started off with 100k and just add 1k every month for 3 decades at 50.6% annual return he would be worth ~223 billion dollars now. And he's busting his ass off to make that 3k from you? Are his followers that dumb that they don't even know how to use a simple retirement calculator?