TR EMERITUS

Going by what Heng said in his Budget statement, you’d think that our spending would be Swiss-standard. Well the spending is not. And other developed countries are spending a lot more than the Swiss. Ain’t it funny that our five part-time PAP mayors are each paid more than the full time mayor of London, a global city, while... 

China has a good system to pass their national laws. The main body to pass laws is the National People's Congress (NPC). The laws are scrutinized and debated in the standing committee and then presented to the NPC for voting. Critics said that the NPC is a rubber stamping body. This is an unfair way to describe it. As the NPC... 

Myanmar has been plunged into chaos after the military junta took power on 1 February and those civilian leaders were jailed, whose faction, the National League for Democracy, secured an overwhelming victory in the national elections. The plots started when U Kyaw Moe Tun, the ambassador, condemned the junta leaders on the...