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Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao―China’s high-stakes college admissions test―shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten million students across China pin their hopes on the gaokao...

A leading organizational theorist takes us deep into the realm of humanity’s most powerful invisible force—social status—and how it shapes everything from who we trust and what we value to which ideas and innovations change the world and who gets credit for their success. Why does an authentic...

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history. Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected...

The world’s most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do. Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to...

@True Believer What's your definition of "needy voters"? According to a study titled Analysing Poverty in Singapore by Teo Wen Pin Felix, only about 3% of Sinkies are in absolute poverty and about 25% of Sinkies are in relative poverty. According to the Elections Department, there were...

If Goh Jin Hian or his proxies offer you $700,000 to take the rap for him, would you do it? NO! You would ask for at least $3 million to go to jail in his stead. His father, Wooden Goh, is extremely wealthy and has a few landed properties in Singapore and KL. In fact, both Wooden Goh and his...

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Voters of Sinkie's general elections don't care about global rankings of this or that.

That's good news. For how long have you been having hematuria?

Najib Razak, the world's No. 1 kleptocrat, claims to have a royal addendum which allows him to serve his remainder of his jail time under house arrest. From whom Goh Jin Hian will be able to obtain a royal pardon? :wink:

Lee Con You and his cronies started them. Both elites and peasants alike should be thankful they are witnessing such events during their lifetimes. We're waiting eagerly for the kangaroo court to deliver its verdict concerning Goh Jin Hian's market rigging activities.

Background New Silkroutes Group ex-CEO Goh Jin Hian, three others charged with market manipulation Former IPP director Goh Jin Hian liable for US$146m losses suffered by company: High Court Directors in breach of fiduciary duties can face severe liabilities Ex-IPP director Goh Jin Hian...

The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption - from the author of the National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy “Excellent . . . entrancing and disturbing . . . [Demick] is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. . ...

From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act—a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that...

A shocking, on-the-ground investigation of the Chinese government’s brutal oppression of its Muslim citizens — the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and others — from Xinjiang to the streets of New York and Washington, DC... Award-winning journalist John Beck recounts China's persecution of the...

Kim Il-sung was the enigmatic architect of North Korea. His life is an extraordinary tale of improbable success: once a barely educated guerrilla fighter, he rose to lead the nation at the young age of 33. Against all odds, he established a horrifyingly stable dictatorial regime, one that still...

According to the below news, an Indian student missed boarding the ill-fated Air India flight by ten minutes for so: 'Traffic saved me': Student missed Air India crash by just 10 minutes https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv26zz5wzo Bristol student missed boarding Air India flight due to...

The owner of The Online Citizen deserves to be POFMA a second, third etc. time. It appears that he is the attention-seeking type and for those few minutes of online fame, he's willing to risk kena sued. After the first round of POFMAs, he should have created a new website and/or forum on the...

Totally agree but the OP said he wanted to print airline boarding passes and train tickets. Go to the commercial print shops in Bras Basah Complex to print on papers thicker than 80 gsm and/or bigger than A3. You can choose the type and quality of paper. By "commercial print shops" I don't...

Lee Con You had one of his MPs to stand in for him and carry out his duties.