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An Angmoh with roots in Toa Payoh?

Reading Neil Humphreys’ article today in The Straits Times[0] on how he will ‘address the thorny issue of my mortality’ by planting a sapling in Toa Payoh Town Park so that he might have the answer to how might his ‘daughter come to remember her nomadic parents’, I could not help but be amused to find [...]

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Greater supply, greater benefits

Source: The Straits Times Page A24, 27 Mar 2009
Article by: Lee Wei Ling

Last year, half of the transplant patients had waited nine or more years to get their transplants. There are now 503 patients on the waiting list for transplants. Clearly, we need more donors — soon.

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Why not start an annual Orang Utan Run in our universities?

I say, why not start an annual Orang Utan Run — modelled after the famed Polar Bear Run of the University of Chicago — in our universities? Better this than let our undergraduates run foul of the law by streaking unauthorised along the corridors of the university hostels.

Horror of horrors, some might say. This is [...]

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Babies, women and foreigners

Source: The Straits Times Page A14, 21 Mar 2009
Article entitled Babies, Women and Foreigners. Featuring MM Lee at NUSS Dialogue.

Twenty-five years from now, Singapore will be more cosmopolitan…We already have European children doing National Service. Many of our women are marrying Caucasian men…The second generation will speak like us, behave like us, culturally they’ll be part of [...]