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The Diamond Sutra

Diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities, most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms. In particular, diamond has the highest hardness and

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Putting Up With Madness

Many years ago, when I was new to the internet, I pissed a certain bureaucrat off in an online forum by describing Singapore’s closure of Singapore’s Chinese medium schools as a stupid mistake and the Singapore’s so-called bilingual scheme as dong bu cheng, xi bu jiu. Not surprisingly, Mr Bureaucrat expressed shock at my audacity

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China’s Pink Contingent

China surprises everyone. Those who expect to find brotherhood in the motherland have been surprised. Those who expected to see widespread poverty and starvation under the big, bad communists have been surprised. Those who thought that every Chinese man on the street carries a rich cultural and historical baggage have been surprised. Western democracy advocates

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