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March 05, 2008

Inspirational Leader of All Times

Referring to a Straits Times report that a member of the British parliament had called Singapore "a pestilential and immoral cesspool", he knotted his dark bushy brows and, fixing his audience with a baleful stare, thundered: "Who is responsible for making this cesspool?"

Soon after, the Department of Education issued a circular banning the man responsible for the above bold statement, from ever speaking in the colony's schools.

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January 29, 2008

Farewell to Man of Steel

Many would remember Indonesia's former president, Mr. Suharto, as the autocratic leader who dominated Indonesia for 32 years ruling the nation with iron fists.

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