TR EMERITUS

In Parliament on 9 November, I asked if the People’s Action Party’s goal was to win 100% of fully elected Parliamentary seats, leaving the Opposition only as NCMPs. DPM Teo Chee Hean’s reply, as recorded in the Hansard (the transcript of Parliamentary speeches), was: “On the NCMPs, we go into an election with the intention... 

My Korean friend got a shock when he visited Singapore after more than 10 years. He last visited Singapore in 2005 and was impressed with the efficiency of our public transport and good and cheap food. When he visited Singapore last week, he got stunned at how bad Singapore has become just after 10 years. 1) Expensive but poor... 

"Singapore must avoid deep divisions as seen in the UK, US" so said our Lee Hsien Loong at the APEC summit. He puts the issue down to the narrative of the impact of technology and economic change. In this he firmly puts himself well within the liberal order albeit in his case just the economic version of free markets of trade,...