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@Rabbit7 Aiyoh...why are you fixated on OBS? In American English, OBS is a convicted felon. In other words, he's a disgraced bizman. With regard to people of high ses, "face" a.k.a. "reputation in society" matters a lot. People of high ses have very "thin face" (meaning fragile social...

The people named below published their original works in German, their native language: Famous psychoanalysts of the early 20th century Sigmund Freud Josef Breuer Carl Gustav Jung Alfred Adler Otto Rank Erich Fromm Melanie Klein Karen Horney Famous Protestant theologians Martin Luther Karl...

An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell As humans, we think in stories—stories that allow us to feel and share emotions. In order for this phenomenon to work, our brains and the ways in which we tell...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapse In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that...

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...