Can you have your cake and eat it?


For a brighter future: Maybe we should take a risk and eat some cake to get a new perspective of the world, says the writer.

We should not take our democracy for granted. The right to vote is the essence of a democratic country.

I WAS having breakfast with my Chinese friend the other day in a coffee shop. We talked about current affairs and then we went down this rabbit hole: Why do

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