HERE’S A SENTENCE that risks boring you to tears if only because you’ve read it so often: Technological advancement is taking place so rapidly that entire industries, not just jobs, are going under. But before you roll your eyes and…
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Education Minister (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung’s suggestion that the PAP’s continued one-party rule is the best course for Singapore’s future is at complete odds with reality. It is precisely the lack of a democratic, checks-and-balance system that has gotten…
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I STOOD ON the balcony of the school block and surveyed the campus of the Anglo-Chinese School at Barker Road. I had not been back there since I graduated some four decades ago (I was accompanying Shaw Hur to buy…
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The recent past has seen several deadly mishaps that leads one to question the quality of our workforce and, more importantly, its leadership. Just this morning, we learnt of an SMRT bus driver taking the bus over an empty field…
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In 1993 when the government introduced the Elected Presidency (EP) bill, it gave a grand vision of how system was evolving into a more democratic one where there would be greater checks and balance. Then prime minister Goh Chok Tong…
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