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Keep a hand on the tap

Source: The Straits Times Page A2 24 Aug 2009

Article by Bertha Henson, Associate Editor

She went out, presumably to check with someone else, came in and took the flask away with profuse apologies. She was a Chinese national too.

The nurse who was in charge of my particular room was a Filipina. Likewise, the nurses who asked me questions [...]

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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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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 [...]