TR EMERITUS

I WAS taken aback by the results of this general election which saw the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) garner 60.1 per cent of the vote, the lowest since independence. I am baffled by how the opposition managed to put up such a strong performance. Their members failed to strike me as credible candidates. I thought they... 

The People's Action Party lost its first battle after 15 years of monopoly of power since independence in 1981 Anson by-election. Mr. JB Jeyaratnam has dented PAP's strong hold of power back then. In 1984 General Elections, PAP lost two seats in total: Mr. JBJ retained his Anson seat while Mr. Chiam See Tong won Potong... 

“Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac. That’s the way I had to survive in the past.” The late opposition politician J B Jeyaretnam was viciously persecuted for his opposition to Mr Lee Kuan Yew's PAP Those by-now infamous...