Yeah, well, he went into a tourist shop, not the one with postcards and plastic Merlions. That one ah, the one in here for the towkays and businessmen for conference centres. They sell gold-plated Merlions, Eiffel Towers and Empire State Buildings, you know.

The administration implemented that policy borderwide in spring 2018 but quickly abandoned it under heavy criticism.

Children eventually bring their book bins to the meeting area for minilessons, and during minilessons they sit beside their reading partners in assigned rug spots.

The latter assumption is not entirely without justification; for if one defines history as the sum-total of human events, and “society” as the sum-total of myriads of human beings and their activities, then one may claim that, insofar as they both designate sum-totals, the two terms are interchangeable.