
India and Singapore: A Tale of Two Nations (with different narratives)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi boldly walked away from the the jewel of global free-trade agreements - the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on 4 Nov 2019. Even without India, the proposed RCEP will be the world's largest trade pact involving 10 ASEAN member states, China Japan, South Korea, Australia and...

AIM – Gone, Resurrected and Gone again
One of the more sordid political sagas that we have seen in Singapore over the last decade was the sale and lease-back by 14 PAP Town Councils of their IT system to a PAP-owned shell company, Action Information Management Pte Ltd. The justifications put forward by the PAP after the sale came to light were unsatisfactory to...

Hong Kong riots not that violent meh
I’ve KPHBed (HK: Int’l media coverage shows PAP got point on media?) that the ang moh media (including my favourites, FT, Economist and BBC: yup I’m an anglophile) exaggerate the severity of the violence (especially police “brutality” in HK). Only two people have died despite Rules of engagement that in July were...
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