Singapore – A tough love story

By Kee Thuan Chye

February 2015 REVIEW
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Don’t look for “love” in the straightforward sense here. The 50 things included in this book are not strictly things to love; they are more of things that make Singapore what it is – ranging from the country’s policy of legislated multiracialism to the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) for motor vehicles, the rise of hawker centres, Lee Kuan Yew and even its “achievement” of being World No. 1 for the highest obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) rates.You would of course wonder what...

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Kee Thuan Chye

is the author of the new bestsellers Unbelievably Stupid! and Unbelievably Stupid Too!

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