I WOULD like to congratulate Sunday Star for publishing Wong Chun Wai’s candid column on honorific titles (“Apparently, honourable individuals are rolling off the assembly line these days”, On the Beat, March 28; online at bit.ly/star_titles).
Titles and medals are an invaluable and imaginative way of recognising individuals who have contributed significantly to the nation and to humankind. Holders of state titles are accorded prestige, precedence and even preferential status in this country.
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