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Since the 1800s, the Japanese have taken extraordinary care with raising and breeding Wagyu beef.

The world’s finest cattle has a reputation of being hand-fed, regularly massaged with oil and drunk on beer while listening to classical music. An eight ounce cut can set you back by US$160.

December 1950 all hell broke loose, when Dutch girl Maria Hertogh was torn from her adopted mother and her Muslim upbringing, returning to her Dutch parents. How did events turn on its ugly head that December?

50-year-old Zul is a refuse cleaner. His pay has remained the same for the last 5 years. Cleaners in Singapore are one of the lowest paid workers. What is keeping the wages of the 70 thousand cleaners like Zul, low?  And will efforts by the labour movement to raise their pay help improve their lot?