TR EMERITUS

I remember a local Tamil friend of mine was got a shock when he was asked “Are you from India,” at a corporate function. The man who at the time was head of Southeast Asia for a multinational aerospace company, was taken back because it seemed to imply that the multinational company assumed that if an Indian was qualified... 

I have to confess that I had high hopes during national service. I had a strange fantasy of being an officer and then, somehow proving myself in a combat situation and climbing the ranks. I guess part of it was from growing up in the UK, where it was expected of any young man with A-levels entering as an officer if he chose... 

When news broke that our community infections escalated from 92 cases yesterday to 163 cases today, it is exceedingly clear that the current political "leaders" entrusted to steer Singapore out of the prevailing pandemic are truly incompetent to be entrusted with this responsibility. The current wave of infection is not their...