TR EMERITUS

Those familiar with Singapore's political history will remember the role played by student activists in the '50s and early '60s. But that ended when schools were depoliticised after independence. For better or worse, schools have been neutral and independent institutions of learning for the past few decades. So I was surprised... 

We have been told that the reason why we need immigrants is because the economy is creating more jobs that there are S’poreans to fill them; we are picky about the jobs we are willing to do; we are “less hard-driving and hard-striving” because “the spurs are not stuck into the hide”; and society is greying fast because... 

Singapore leaders are obsessed with 'GDP growth' which is often used as a gauge of their performance and of course bonuses. In his New Year's Message, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described Singapore's GDP's growth of 14.7 percent as "a dramatic rebound from negative growth last year" which is splashed across the front page...