TR EMERITUS

It is well known that if Ong Teng Cheong had stood against Nathan he would have won. One of the reasons he didn’t do it was because his beloved wife was dying, and he felt the President should have a First Lady. He was adamant about doing his job and he rubbed LKY and Goh Chok Tong and the Civil service the wrong way, at... 

The need for a SMART Nation indicates that our economy is in a flux. It is an economy caught in the global struggle between Capital and Labor (or Mass Democracy). To simplify this conundrum, we just have to posit former MP Indergit Singh’s ‘inclusive growth’ versus PAP’s ‘GDP growth at all cost’; the former advocates... 

While I dislike PAP using our ‘vulnerability’ as a means of entrenching their power, it is also a height of negligence not to understand that small nation-states are inherently more susceptible to global events than countries liked US or China. We have not much of a history in terms of global conflict after independence....