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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Mr S R Nathan (3 July 1924 – 22 August 2016). What a life he led! From the time he ran away from home at 16, to his early job as a clerk in Muar, then as medical social worker,…
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Hockey, football, cricket, athletics, volleyball, sepak takraw, rugby… you name it, he has played it. Studies were not high on his priority list and he certainly harboured no ambitions of being a medical professional like his father. Studying medicine required…
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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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On Cooling-off Day, a good friend invited me to lunch with a group of eminent Singaporeans. I decided to use them as a focus group and asked them to predict whether the PAP’s popular vote would go up or down….
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