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As Singapore prepares to celebrate 50 years of “good governance” – it may be a good idea to just spend sometime asking ourselves whether Kishore is justified to adopt a “we have arrived” tone? But before diving there – let’s just consider what is good governance? And is it really the magic bullet that can slay... 

Can Singapore Fail? Well let’s turn the question on its head and repose it this way: hasn't Singapore already failed?   I don’t know; and though I did attempt to delve into the minutiae of Kishore’s “Can Singapore fail? I can’t say I gleaned any valuable insights – to be honest, it left me quite perplex. Now don’t... 

In 2001, as Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's long tenure as prime minister was in its final years, we wrote that Malaysia was "in danger of stepping back from the world of democracy and the Internet into a darker age of racial conflict and government repression." Eight years later, with the economy deteriorating and politics in turmoil,...