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    [Sg] - Lee Hsien Loong will visit the United States and deliver a speech at Harvard University, aren't you proud of your Senior Minister?

    Don't think Harvard students will be so rude as to turn their backs on LHL when he arrives at the university to deliver his lecture.
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    Turkey 'Is One Of The World's New Superpowers,' Will Rise In Post-Coronavirus Era

    The Turks are originally from Central Asia and began migrating to present day Turkey previously known as Anatolia or Asia Monor in the 11th century. They arrived in huge numbers and soon displaced the Greek-speaking original inhabitants. Turkey and Albania are the two Muslim majority countries...
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    Why It’s Time to Rename the South China Sea

    What about East China Sea? Does it also belong to China? The Senkaku Islands are lying there, so it is very complicated because of the issues of sovereignty claim by China, Japan and Taiwan.
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    Critical Spectator: Singapore can easily support 15mil population

    How much water is needed if ever our population reached 15 million? Then it would mean our dream of self-sufficiency in water can never be realized.
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    徐少強 has died

    Ya, 顾冠中 replaced him.
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    徐少強 has died

    Our local actor Tay Ping Hui looked a bit like him.
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    [Video] - Mysterious red glow seen above Pacific Ocean, macam UFOs ETs

    I no expert lah. Only read science fiction books. Maybe experts in this forum could answer your query.
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    [Video] - Mysterious red glow seen above Pacific Ocean, macam UFOs ETs

    The nearest heavenly body to our solar system is four light years away. If these UFOs could travel at 10% the speed of light then it will take at least 40 years to reach earth.
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    Do these people look chinese to you? But they are chinese.

    Tajiks is a tribe of the Iranian people.
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    100 signs that Cantonese dogs sons of CHICKENS @pig @nanospeed @sbfuncle @balls2u @ultimareonline @lostvirgin etc are 小人

    Gin, you are using language which are vulgar and obscene, very unbecoming of an educated woman (assuming you are). Please lah, do you have to stoop so low?
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    Not just in China but in Taiwan also Hakka genes are particularly the ones more mixed with Austronesian aborigines than Minnan Hokkiens do.

    Still hokkien and hakka in Taiwan look different from the mandarin-speaking mainlanders who are fairer and more refined.
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    [Matland] Anwar: a “great country” like Malaysia will go to war before we surrender an inch of soil or even a tiny rock on Batu Puteh (Pedra Branca)!

    Malaysia is too weak militarily to be taken seriously. On the other hand, big bro Indon with 275 million people is a different kettle of fish.
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    Thai are same genes as Dai people and celebrate same festival 泼水节. No wonder Cantonese with much Dai genes have low stomach cancer just like Thailand

    Southern Chinese do carry some tribal blood in them which explain why southerners look a bit different from the northerners who are of pure Han Chinese stock. In Taiwan, you can spot the difference between a native (hokkien/hakka) and a mainlander just from the physical apprearence.
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    Best joke of the day. NS is the backbone of Sickipoora's defence and security.

    Does backbone means our NS boys will be fighting at the frontline when war breaks out with the Reservist forming second line of defence?
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    More evidence that SAF is a guniang wayang army.

    Years ago when I was undergoing jungle training in Brunei with my reservist unit, our commandant told us to be prepared for any emergency in the sultanate where we will have to stop all training and be rushed to the palace to protect the sultan and his family. Think there is always a saf unit...
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    New Australian sprint champ from sudan

    South Sudan men are the tallest in Africa with average height of 1.85 m. Many are playing in the NBA.
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    1973 Spore study shows Hokkiens & Teochews have similar cancer patterns unlike Cantonese due to similar ancestry from Henan unlike Cantonese

    The original inhabitants of South China are the Baiyue people - Nan Yue in Guangdong and Min Yue in Fujian. Han Chinese started arriving to the southern regions two thousand years ago. The Han settlers intermixed with the Natives and over many centuries developed their own language (not...
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    3yo kids can tell u that government promise to lower cost of living is a myth and for lip service only

    Estate Duty was abolished in Singapore in 2008. It is no doubt a good source of government revenue. Tharman was the Finance Minister at that time. Got to ask him for the reason for doing so.
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