Category: A Better World
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More Islamic than thou in Malaysia
Malaysia’s policies of defending and enforcing Islamic norms are coming around to bite it in the back.
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After Lee Kuan Yew: Where is Singapore going from here?
Lee Kuan Yew’s death has inevitably polarised Singapore. One camp eulogises him as the founder of modern Singapore; this group dominates the airwaves and the papers, singing his praises as long and loud as they can. Another camp points to his history of authoritarianism and Machiavellian approach to handling dissent, and criticises Lee across the Internet. The…
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Singapore's politics of personality
Singapore’s opposition parties need to become political parties, not personality parties.
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More Laws, More Crime
In 1920, the United States passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing the production, sale and transportation of alcohol. The next thirteen years saw an upshot in banditry, the rise of organised crime on the backs of alcohol smuggling, gang violence, police corruption and an international alcohol smuggling racket that raked in millions of dollars…
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Sidestepping #VATMESS: My new approach to ebook pricing
My new approach to pricing in the wake of #VATMESS
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Looking Beyond Terror
If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles -Sun Tzu, Art of War This letter on the TODAY newspaper forum reflects an understandable, but naive, sentiment about terrorism. The writer argues that terrorism has no religion, and that all terrorists should simply be called terrorists without…