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Fujian settlers may be the first to arrive on the island but Taiwan experienced industrialization and rapid economic growth only after the arrival of KMT and mainland Chinese from North/Central China. The mainlanders provided the impetus for overall growth in the country. And even before when...

After nearly four decades of KMT strongman rule by Chiang father and son, power was transferred from the Mainlanders to the native Taiwanese in 1988. From its first native President Lee Teng Hui to the current leader Tsai, ROC has been headed by a Hakka leader. A bit like Sinkieland where though...

The ancestors of hokkiens were the Min Yue who are a sub-group of the tribal Baiyue people the original inhabitants in southern China. In a way, the southern Chinese are not of pure Han stock but a mixed people from centuries of intermixing between Han settlers from north/central China and the...

Hokkiens are the early settlers in Taiwan and is the biggest group but they are still being looked down by the mandarin-speaking mainlanders who is a minority group and having arrived on the island only after 1949. The mainlanders find the hokkien language crude and have very low regard for...

Old timers must have heard of the book entitled Socialism that works - the Singapore way compiled and edited by my hero C V Devan Nair. Those who are interested can go library borrow the book and read it to gain some insight.

As long as PAP is able to continue delivering a clean and efficient goverment, Oppo cannot make much headway at the polls. Most voters are not unduly concerned about issues such as transparency, accountability, meritocracy, high pay of ministers and even influx of FTs. And PAP arrogance and...

Ordinary folks are not too concerned about whether they are living in a meritocratic society or whether political leaders & top government officials are drawing sky high salary. As long as they perceive the government to be clean with no corruption at the low and middle levels, they are happy...

Re: Fucking WP Doesn't Give Up! Still Want To Make Trouble In Parliament For Mdm Prez Attending funeral wakes, having regular trade fairs in your estate and organising durian trips to Johor is not going to be good enough. They have to when need be speak up forcefully in parliament on issues...

This deeply religious people do not enlist in the army as they do not believe in going to war with its Arab neigbours. In fact they do not believe in the creation of the Zionist state. They do not work at all and believe that wealth accumulation and material things in life are unimportant. Their...

Our chief envoy to KL all these years have been Indian, wonder why?

My former colleague, a Malaysian-born Indian, once reminded me that we should all be grateful to the ah neh foreign construction workers for it is them that help built the mrt system in Singapore.

Agreed and unless come one day when we are able to witness poverty and widespread unemployment, PAP will not be toppled at the polls. Voters who are gainfully employed invariably will support the ruling party. Public sector employees generally are also beholden to vote for PAP and the government...

LHL already said he will step down as PM after next GE. The man himself could be eyeing the President post after HY has finished serving her one term appointment.

Boycotting or not, one-on-one or a 3-corner fight, the PAP-endorsed candidate will win because the ruling party continues to receive support from the public sector employees, Malay voters, womenfolk, new citizens and low wage earners who are collecting monthly cash payout from workfare.

If long term survival of SG is not attainable, may have to consider the merger option with MY. For the younger ones among us, it may happen during their lifetime.

Should not blame the British or opium traders. The blame should squarely be on the weak and disunited Han Chinese people who could have seized the opportunity to overthrow the declining alien Qing dynasty after the end of the long reign of Emperor Qianlong. Manchus made up no more than 2% of the...

People of Asia have to be mindful of the dangerous warmongers game the Western media constantly play by pitching one nation against another. There must be no war in Asia as peace is of paramount importance to the continent's forward march towards catching up with the West. Nehru coined the...

South Africa-born Hakka.

The last time China bullied its smaller weaker neighbour was in the spring of 1979 when Chinese troops crossed the frontier border with north Vietnam and meeting with little resistance was soon moving menacingly towards Hanoi the Vietnamese capital. The Vietnamese border militiamen simply were...