The real reason why Reformasi won’t happen here
In Why Reformasi won’t happen here,I had a dig at the cheapskates who wanted Reformasi on the cheap. Here’s the real reason (articulated by a member of a FB group I belong to): S’poreans have not suffered enough (Something Chris K has said on FB) because things ain’t that bad her (Chris never pointed this out, but...
What would Dr Goh Keng Swee have made of all this?
Dr Goh Keng Swee is known as a visionary, reformer and economic architect of Singapore. He was also a stickler for plain English, urging civil servants to communicate in no-frills, non-verbose style. In a speech in 1979, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew shared that Dr Goh used to “give every officer whom he thinks is promising...
Review of ‘The Media Enthralled, Singapore Revisited’ by Francis T Seow
The Media Enthralled, published in 1998, is a meticulous documentation of how the free press was subverted and enslaved. Not only was the local press with powerful private ownership brought to its knees, the foreign press too were subjugated. Like other books of the author, I read The Media Enthralled with a dictionary by my...
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