TR EMERITUS

While our ang moh tua kees are KPKBing about hanging drug mules, detention without trial , LGBT rights and other ang moh preoccupations, they are missing something that will soon come here. Beijing wants to give every citizen a credit rating for everything.  Citizens’ ratings are to be linked with their identity-card numbers.... 

When LKY passed away in 2015, my first concern is about Singapore's diplomacy. Observing how his son had conducted himself in various occasions, like visiting Taiwan right before he assumed the position as Prime Minister and how he unwittingly joked about smoke in Beijing right in front of the US President, I feared very much... 

I was wrong. PM wasn’t invited to the summit meeting on the above, it seems, going by what Lawrence Wong is quoted as saying. He wasn’t aping Western leaders by declining the invitation and sending ka kiah instead. When asked why Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong did not attend the Belt and Road Forum, which was...