TR EMERITUS

America was propagated as the Great Nation in the last century when I was born, even though the world was technically still at war with the ongoing Cold War. When the Soviet Union block broke down, everyone thought it's going to be a New World Order with the Americans as the unquestionable the one and only one Super Power left... 

This is not an attempt at self-exaltation but to give a glimpse of the obscurantism of the Singapore society. May I begin with the disclosure that I come from a humble beginning. It was fate that moved me to Singapore where I languished as a a lowly clerk in the British Army Base Ordnance Depot. It was again fate that transformed... 

Mr Shanmugam says Singapore has laws and policies to prevent riots like those seen in the UK recently because Singapore takes a very stringent approach concerning freedom of expression by giving priority to maintaining law and order. (ST, 17/8/24) He was referring to the riots that erupted, in no small measure, because social...