TR EMERITUS

When Singapore hosted the Trump-Kim summit last year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke extensively to the media, telling Singaporeans “I hope you will understand this is for a good cause, it is a national effort, and I hope we will be all be able to work together to show the world what Singapore can do.” After the summit,... 

I write this now at 0245 hours, 24 Jan 2019. It’s not possible to go back to sleep after I awoke to take a pee and happened on the Yahoo-reported news of death of Aloysius Pang based on an SAF news release dated 23 Jan 2019, 2329 hours i.e. less than 2 hours 45 mins when Corporal First Class (NS) Aloysius died at Waikato... 

After so many deaths, not a single higher-up commander is held responsible. A serviceman dies once every few months. Yet, I repeat, not a single person in higher command is held responsible. When a death occurs, a PR move is trotted out, condolences dished out as a routine, and then a few months later, another death. Meanwhile,...