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Not bad for a Pashtun to be PM in Punjabi-majority Pakistan. But now and in the foreseeable future, it is not likely for a non-Malay to be be PM in Malaysia.

The Taiwanese are no better. Colonized first by the Dutch followed by the Spanish. Then the Japanese came and ruled Taiwan for 50 years. Lastly, KMT Nationalist forces arrived and imposed harsh rule on the island. Meekly ruled by outsiders for so many centuries and not able to determine own...

The very year majority control of the SIP project was turned over to the Chinese, the project became profitable. WTF

Used to be very pro-China until unfolding events leading to Singapore's debacle in the Suzhou Industrial Park project in the late 1990s.

When China was poor and backward you don't see so many pro-China Singaporeans.

No, Romania should join Italy as Romanians are descendants of the Romans who once ruled a major part of Europe.

Name borrowed from India or Sri Lanka? A Sinhalese Buddhist monk once reminded me that the Sinhalese (the majority group in Sri Lanka) and Singaporean share the same heritage in that both people are descendants of the Lion (Singha).

Teochew people arrived in Southern China from Shanxi in the North some 500 years ago. They settled first in the Zhangzhou region in Southern Fujian. In the South, they gradually replaced their language which was Mandarin and adopted the local Min Nan language. They also borrowed some local...

Both Zhejiang and Southern Jiangsu are also not the original homeland of the Han Chinese people. The people there speak the Wu language which is very different from Mandarin. So these people going to break away and form independent states? No way right?

Hinduism is the world's oldest living religion. Long before Abraham made the long journey from Ur to Canaan, the ancient Hindus were already praying to the gods of the Hindu pantheon.

North/Central China is the original homeland of the Han Chinese. Around 2,000 years ago, Han Chinese started to migrate to the south due to cold weather, famine or warfare. After their arrival in the south, they inter-mixed with the original inhabitants of South China which are the Baiyue...

They are all children of Abraham.

China fought a brief but bloody border war with Vietnam in the spring of 1979. After crossing the border, PLA made swift advances meeting little resistance from the Vietnamese border troops. As Chinese troops advanced towards Hanoi, battle hardened regular soldiers of the Vietnamese Army who...

May be someone can go ask Christopher Lee the Singapore-based Malaysian actor the reason for his refusal to give up his Malaysian citizenship after having stayed and worked in Singapore for almost three decades.

I Know his younger brother. Humble upbringing. Very smart, the study type. Teochew speaking. Now fat but was very fit while at OCS.

Seat was won by C V Devan Nair.

His father passed away yesterday.

Character like him will be labelled Chinese chauvinists by the government a generation ago and get into all sorts of trouble. Today he is free to talk cock everyday in this forum and proclaim how great China is. Times have changed indeed.

When war broke out, officers from the SAF are supposed to lead their men to fight the enemy in order to protect lives and properties So what is wrong in letting them enjoy some benefits during peace time?

This Siao Ting Tong must be a complete and utter moron to post in this manner in the forum. Trying hard she did but alas she has only a rudimentary grasp of the subject matter that she is sharing or trying to impress. Her england is also not beri good for someone presumably with a tertiary...