TR EMERITUS

19 years living in NYC as an openly gay man has not erased my memory of the shame and fear of hiding my true self in Singapore. I can still remember visiting a gay bar in Chinatown, not at night when it was open, but in the day when I could check it out without being seen. I was hiding in broad daylight. What was I afraid of?... 

In any society, but especially in one as diverse as ours, both culturally and religiously, balancing individual liberty against the ideal of equality presents daunting challenges. Perhaps Mr. Tong can explain large-scale moral and political change of this sort (repeal Section 377A), without having to evoke the efficaciousness... 

Four years after being turfing out its ruling party-in-perpetuity, Malaysia did the unthinkable – it sent its former Prime Minister, Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak to prison on charges of corruption. Mr. Najib, had until that point been regarded as something of an untouchable figure, even though he...