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HK still have a future because its economy is tied to the Greater Bay Area. It is the future of my beloved Singapore that I am worry about.

One day may see Iran, Afghanistan and North West Pakistan forming a supranational union as they are all Iranic peoples.

The smart and hardworking Tamils are marginalised in Sri Lanka. If more of them are involved in the running of the country, the situation may not be so bleak as what we are witnessing today. During the colonial period, the Tamils, a minority, were allowed to play significant roles by the British.

Already mentioned that orang asli originated in South China while the homeland of the Han Chinese are in North and Central China. The Han Chinese settlers intermixed with the natives and created the Southern Chinese race which over time developed its own language (different from Mandarin) and...

The famous Nissan Bluebird is ok is it?

The orang asli is a diverse group of tribal people inhabiting South China, Indochina, Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Indonesia. Han Chinese arrived in South China two thousand years ago and later waves of migration moved them further south to South East Asia.

The original inhabitants in South China are the Chinese orang asli aka Baiyue people. Han Chinese are settlers from North/Central China.

Maybe can return cpf monies to old uncle so that he need not carry on working in his present condition and start to enjoy life a bit in his twilight years. Afterall it is his own savings and not money from welfare.

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.