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Flight cancellations are common, especially now that COVID keeps changing everybody’s plans. Countries can suddenly announce that they stop all incoming flights, and VTLs suddenly cancelled. However, for this ex-BBC journalist Irene Caselli, she felt that the airline should have given her a free hotel stay. The airline she chose …

Singaporeans have raised questions about Sinovac's safety. PAP has finally relented and said that it will not use Sinovac until further testing.

In one of the segments of his interview by BBC HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur, the dishonorable son Lee Hsien Loong was grilled on the issue of Press Freedom in Singapore. In a garbled response to how he would react if the UK were to set a precondition for freedom of expression and freedom of the press in trade talks, Lee commented on the speed of internet access in Singapore and asked: "So where is the restriction?"

Singapore would still sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with the remaining 11 members, even with the withdrawal of the United States, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the BBC's HARDtalk programme, which was broadcast on Wednesday. He said however that he was "not sure" if such a deal would ever be reached.

In Lee Hsien Loong's latest interview with BBC's Stephen Sackur for the programme HARDtalk, Lee was quizzed on Singapore's lack of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Lee retorted immediately saying that the interviewer Mr Sackur was not restrained at all in asking him any questions, hence proving there is freedom of expression in Singapore.

Clutching German flags, candles and banners, thousands of people joined a demonstration ostensibly against the so-called Islamisation of Germany. "No sharia law in Europe!" proclaimed one banner. But it rapidly became clear that most here are protesting against high levels of immigration and asylum seekers.

Qin Shi Huang was king of the small state of Qin by the age of 13. One by one, Qin Shi Huang defeated neighbouring states, swallowed their territory into his growing empire and enslaved and castrated their citizens. "Every time he captured people from another country, he castrated them in order to mark them and made them into slaves," says Hong Kong University's Xun Zhou. "There were lots and lots of eunuchs in his court. He was a ruthless tyrant." But still, no Qin, no China.

Charlotte Ashton was using her own personal experience to make sense of Singapore's ranking on the global survey that found it to be the least positive country in the world. Many people did not realize this and assumed she was using her single experience to judge the whole of Singapore. Even though Charlotte Ashton's article from the BBC is not a big survey of Singapore's level of graciousness, her experience on a public train that eventually led to her feeling unhappy is a cause for consideration for all locals. I think that the ability to practice graciousness in public is based largely on one's ability to be socially-responsive, empathetic and courageous(ability to adapt well in uncommon situations). These qualities would allow a person to react adequately to those in need.

Freelance writer and self-described food lover Charlotte Ashton jumped at the chance to relocate from London to Singapore last year, she says in the biography section of her website. The Oxford University graduate and former BBC reporter and her husband were happy here until one day, in her 10th week of pregnancy, she felt nauseous while taking the train to work and ended up crouching for 15 minutes because no one offered her a seat.

Is the Internet killing opinion journalism? Not at all. It provides a vast forum for lots more of it. But it's made the search for high-quality opinion writing more difficult. By "high quality" I mean opinion that adheres to what we regard as journalistic standards. They include a certain loyalty to facts and logic - and transparency. Revealing the writer's real identity helps readers understand where the opinion is coming from.