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Glad Singapore is my home

Reading about the Singaporean who was allegedly hit and punched when he confronted an alleged corrupt immigration officer in Batam last week1 brought back memories of my visits to Medan, Indonesia in the the 1980’s during the Suharto era.

On one of my visits then, while I was clearing immigration, I was told to step into [...]

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Live and let live

My e-mail mailbox has been piling up with more than the usual number of messages recently. I have had to sift through quite a number of them to get at the ‘real’ e-mails.

In addition to the numerous messages requesting me to come to the aid of Mrs Obutu or some similar name, there are [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Reincarnate as a Singaporean?

Last evening, my wife’s uncle – in response to my wife’s remarks about not knowing where her deceased father was or what he was now doing in the afterlife – said that most likely her father was now reincarnated as someone here in Singapore.

He added that reincarnation as a Singaporean was something very good – [...]