TR EMERITUS

MR LEE KUAN YEW, thinking that the erstwhile Soviet Union would become a dominant global power, “encouraged” Lee Hsien Loong, then a teenager, to study the Russian language. Fast forward four decades, and Russia has not only not achieved world dominance, it has also become a distrusted brand in many parts of the world. What... 

Calling all parents: The SDP's Annual Mohd Isa Bursary Awards is open for applications again. The Award, set up in 2014 to assist students from lower-income and needy families, is part of the party's effort to level up society through education. In a system stacked in favour of the elite, pupils lower on the socioeconomic scale... 

FORGET THE KERFUFFLE over PM Lee Hsien Loong's exclusion from Beijing's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) party last week. Forget the talk about whether we have been consistent in our foreign policy towards China. And forget the angst over the confiscation of our Terrex vehicles in Hong Kong. These are only sub-plots of the signal...