Will we ever see another politician like President Ong?
Late President Ong Teng Cheong It was exactly 10 years ago that the late President Ong Teng Cheong called a press conference at the Istana on 16 July 1999 – six weeks before his term was due to end. While the main headlines in the newspapers the following day centred on President Ong’s decision not to stand for a second...
Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore is an economic twin to Stalin’s Soviet Union
ONCE UPON a time, Western opinion leaders found themselves both impressed and frightened by the extraordinary growth rates achieved by a set of Eastern economies. Although those economies were still substantially poorer and smaller than those of the West, the speed with which they had transformed themselves from peasant societies...
Tunisia: President won landslide victory in election but ousted 15 months later
Ben Ali Tunisia President Ben Ali's resignation on 15 Jan 2011 was most puzzling in view of the fact that he had won a major landslide victory in the election 2009 fifteen months earlier. On 25 Oct 2009, Tunisia held its presidential and parliamentary elections. The Interior Ministry released the official election results the...
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