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Hi Banglar Lathial, I was going to reply to you on this but forgot. Unfortunately you are right, the locals in Singapore do tend to portray Bangladeshi’s in a certain image mainly due to the large influx of low cost labour in Singapore for the last 15 years in the construction industry...

Though it would be good for ASEAN to get more players it would go against the mandate of what ASEAN was setup for, so I agree that BD should join an umbrella association which would be more in line with her own interest.

Agreed on that

Kudo's to the bus driver, solid as a rock :tup: May he rest in peace

I don't really, but after playing around with simpletons like him they do get annoying haha. Anyway he's now on my ignore list You know what they say Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Simply because I used the terms Rear Admiral Malacca straits and guess what nothing turned up, because the article you put has no mention of such "rear admiral" Also the whole article is questionable, the english used is rubbish, my 6 year old niece can spell better than that. Read this and see...

You mentioned it so you have to support it, if you are referring this this quote "PLAN Rear Admiral Yuncheng states simply, "Whoever controls the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean could block China's oil transport route."...

Do you have a link to support what he said? Also have you considered what Malaysia and Indonesia & Singapore's reaction to you passing military ships thru our waters? Any such ships need the permission of the countries it passes otherwise its deemed as a military incursion. Not to mention...

Singapore actually had a very strong manufacturing base in the 70's and even 90's, many of my associates parents started their manufacturing in Singapore before it become less economically viable to do so. I recall at one point in time cheap handsets were manufactured here, bearing in mind most...

If that's your grand plan please refer to it as something else other then "controlling the Malacca straits". For someone living in SEA you are really ignorant about the area. Firstly the Malacca straits is so named because its a critical choke point in the shipping route between the city of...

Refer to my first post, I was comparing China against Singapore. The second was merely an article by a gentleman from harvard which Bloomberg felt worthy of of publishing. The crux should really be how the Chinese government is taking bay steps to freedom. Isn't what all the fuss by pro freedom...

Are you going to invade Malaysia or Indonesia for that to happen?

I came across a bloomberg article of some relevance, the whole article is quite refreshing so I decided not to bold out the more important bits China’s Blog Censorship Rules Have U.S. Parallels What’s the opposite of free speech? If you answered, “totalitarian...

I suppose the question is given what the Chinese enjoy today how will freedom of speech really benefit the citizens? Or do they even care? I too think the CPC sometimes go overboard in censoring material, then again so does the Singapore government. Really only a very small fraction of...

Leaving the thread chaps, unless I see something from unChosen

Fair enough, all races contribute in their own way to make Singapore what it is today. If not for that we will not have the different flavor that all races provide which give us what we have today. Best wishes on your journey here, I've also got a couple of Indian friends from south India also...

Don't agree with that, if your humble and modest you get more respect. Chinese Singaporeans built Singapore from the ground, you are welcome to contribute and even make Singapore your home. But we are one community.

Totally agree with you on that, there are too many people assuming what China wants without asking the people of China

I agree with what you said about the ranking being useless, but disagree on Singapore & Hong Kong cannot lose due to the financial hub status. I will speak more from a Singapore perspective, firstly Singapore is not an international trading desk it’s more a Wealth Management centre for...

I was reading this book "Shadow Market" and one of the chapters made reference to this article which I find quite interesting, this is just for general knowledge and discussion but no need for anyone to do any kind of back patting. Ps there are probably better articles on this but I just put...