The move on Wednesday by Singapore’s popular deputy premier to emphatically quash suggestions he wants to take over from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong exposes the conservative ethnic consensus in the country’s leadership, despite a public clamour for greater political…
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All of a sudden you hear PAP harping on the importance of having minority representation in the elected presidency. All of a sudden, symbolism is important and meritocracy is not. Hello you think we all bodoh or what? So which…
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Talk of the “rising star” of Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has raised the old question of whether Singapore is ready for a non-Chinese Prime Minister. But why shouldn’t Singapore be ready? If Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic…
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A tour of duty in areas affected by Malaysia’s worst floods in decades has left Prime Minister Najib Razak fighting an Escherichia coli (E.coli) infection, believed to be food poisoning, as the country continues to reel from the aftermath of…
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SINGAPORE – Air quality in the Republic has worsened, prompting authorities to write to Indonesia expressing “deep concern” over the situation. A thin veil of grey hung over most areas of Singapore on Friday while the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index…
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