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While the government has definitely done a lousy job in terms of managing inflation in Singapore especially with the nonsensical 9% GST hike in the midst of a historical high inflation environment, this Telegraph headline is extremely exaggerated and sound more like conservative propaganda to...

Hi SOS, thanks for the informative writeup provided in this thread. I must confess I know nothing of this industry and some of your comments have been insightful. My two cents layman POV just reading from their website is this appears to be a rather shifty company that refuses to tell its...

If you want to know which nations are weak, at least from Dr M's perspective, just look at which country he praises and tries to befriend with. Dr M has always had a Malay persecution complex since his younger days. You can see that clearly in his earlier work like The Malay Dilemma and also...

ROFL. Idiot probably doesn't even know what it means. The strangest one I came across was an intern called Ravemucous (can't remember exact spelling) which the guy smugly announced to me is pronounced as Rah Veh Moo Koh. And yes, he's a Chinese. From what I heard he was a complete disaster in...

Yes, generally an English name does help in career be it for interviews, business development or building up rapport amongst colleagues. However, I would advise only to use single English names that are spelled properly. Some people try to be creative by adding two English names (e.g...

City satay is a food manufacturer cum retailer and all theirs stays are centrally made at the Bedok factory. The ketupat is not even self-made, most likely supplied by Malaysia factory and their staff is mostly transient paid by the hour / day type who move from place to place, what passion and...

I'm sure everyone including Jokowi himself is aware of that, the purpose of his trip has little to do with forging peace between Russia and Ukraine (not even China can do that, much less Indonesia). However, Jokowi's high profile visits likely seek to achieve two outcomes: 1) Raise his domestic...

Yea rite... Somehow all the biggest institutional financial investors in the world and all the PRC uncle auntie retail investors are unaware of such devastating news for ABC other than Mr Twitter Zhang Lifan with his "insider" Tik Tok video. I also note he phrases his allegations in the form...

I'm always puzzled by people who speak of salary, retirement and child raising expense as generic concepts. Each of these items is a mathematical problem that can be calculated and somewhat resolved using four basic functions of +-/*. Yet when these people talk about such issues, there is no...

Japan joining NATO is the equivalent of wearing suspenders and belt at the same time, it serves no purpose other than to constantly generate news for layman consumption. Japan already has an assurance more superior than anything NATO has to offer i.e. Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security...

Ng Eng Hen was mischievously chiding the PLA Colonel by flooding him with bombastic words which he probably cannot fully grasp especially spontaneously in a fireside chat. In this context, I think he did well to uphold the dignity of Singapore and put the guy in his place. Having said that, I...

The last thing anyone should do is listen to an academic that purports to be an expert on an extremely niche area and even gives a cute name to lend credibility to a non-existent problem. What the world commonly knows as someone beh song another person for saying something he didn't like to...

So far the Russia-Ukraine war has blown up two popular misconceptions that have been circulating around the world: Myth #1: Russia is a military superpower that is second only to US, even in conventional warfare it can squash any other country like a bug just like US did to Iraq in DS1 and DS2...

It's a standard politician way of advocating a position to reapproach China without appearing to give in and concede to her. First build up a caricature of a supposed pro-China national leader that is seen as western enough, then slide in and imply that you are just following this very "tok...

It is quite telling that the entire article is unable to provide even a shred of hard data to support this click bait headline. Instead of showing us the numbers, the gist of it is basically regurgitating what Imamura, an executive from Tokyo Steel Manufacturing said. No hard data as evidence...

Cyrus Jansen is quite an interesting case of a successful influencer who somehow manages to straddle between both the pro-China and pro-US audience. He positions himself as a patriotic American who thinks the world can benefit if China and US work hand in hand. This has not only broadened his...

This is all very interesting, but what exactly is look East? From the way it's being defined in these articles, it is implied that Japan is the "East". This might have worked in the 1980s when Dr M was holding the reins of Malaysia, but it's the worst possible option now in 2022. Also his...

People migrate or stay overseas for many reasons such as work opportunities, studies, family reasons, pace of life etc. Political system is usually not high up on the priority despite heavy emphasis by the media. There are lots of foreign citizens staying here long term (some are even...

Er sure, I suppose this is a catch all explanation that can be used for virtually any scenario with any country. The truth of your assertions aside, the fact remains that these so called "revelations" by Yahoo in fact post more problems to the western narrative and bolster CCP claims then...

The writer of this piece adopts a sniggering tone as she erroneously thought she has scored a great goal against China with these revelations, but has in fact done an own goal by further legitimizing the CCP and refuting western claims. Quite ironic. While individual pro-China bloggers that...