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The_Inquirer
2018-08-11 03:15:09 UTC
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https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/us-embassy-in-singapore-challenges-staff-to-singlish-test-for-national-day
Don't be stupid lah! This will not endear you to Singporeans.
I'll tell you guys how to endear yourselves to Singaporeans.
Don't compete with us for investments e.g. Broadcom.
Bring in more high-tech investments.
Don't meddle in our politics.
OK or not?
their fighter pilots cheated when they were training with our fighter
pilots. they could listen in on what we are doing, but we cannot listen
in on them.

but our fighter pilots used Singlish (our own lingo) to defeat them.

could they be sore losers trying to influence Singapore's language use?
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Byker
2019-07-18 21:06:49 UTC
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Are these not enough for the US-led West? Maybe not. Perhaps they want to
see Singaporean Chinese mount mass protests in the streets against China,
waving the Union Jack and the Stars-and-Stripes, like what has recently
happened in Hong Kong.
Not a bad idea:

Byker
2019-10-12 17:26:58 UTC
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Singapore is a small island nation in South East Asia. About 700 sq. kms.
in size with a multiracial population of about 75% Chinese and racial
minorities of Malays, Indians and Others.
As China rises, will the influence of Chinese culture in Singapore
increase? It depends on whether Singapore policy makers will switch giant
from US to China. As India rises, it too would want to exert its power on
Singapore. Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore and its first PM, had
once mentioned that in future China and India would both compete for
dominant influence over Singapore. Has that future arrived?
It will when Singapore, like other developing countries, finds
itself in a debt trap:






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