Hong Kong is arguably the only other geography that one can compare Singapore to: both British colonial ports, Chinese-majority, East-meets-West, Asian Tiger city-states. Here's why many Hong Kongers are now moving south.

We still live with the consequences of the illegal, ill-fated invasion, including jihadis like ISIS. Though other democracies have publicly interrogated their actions 20 years ago, Singapore never has.

We still live with the consequences of the illegal, ill-fated invasion, including jihadis like ISIS. Though other democracies have publicly interrogated their actions 20 years ago, Singapore never has.

We still live with the consequences of the illegal, ill-fated invasion, including jihadis like ISIS. Though other democracies have publicly interrogated their actions 20 years ago, Singapore never has.

We still live with the consequences of the illegal, ill-fated invasion, including jihadis like ISIS. Though other democracies have publicly interrogated their actions 20 years ago, Singapore never has.

It's neither crime nor the weather that's on writer Myle Yan Tay's mind as a student in Chicago. It's booze. Yan tracks his relationship with alcohol and newly made friends in the "Windy City", as a frigid winter approaches.