After a year of uncertainty, PAP is back to the original plan and selected Heng Swee Keat's successor as his replacement for future premiership, once Lee Hsien Loong steps down - likely in or just before the next GE in 2025.I think the delay was due entirely
What is the future of governance? Is it in the free-for-all liberal democratic West? Or is it going to be superseded by the rising power in Beijing? I have to say I'm quite entertained by the competition of the two, since neither is the answer - and yet,
Is there a way to independently verify that the COP made correct decisions in the Khan affair? I believe there is.I believe it's always a healthy exercise to assume everybody else is lying - or, at the very least, that they are wrong. Questioning everything and everyone
Or why politics shouldn't be fueled by emotions...
Logically speaking it makes sense to leave the Workers' Party to bear full responsibility for TC affairs and have voters see the results. But politics rarely depends on logic...
If you’re telling members of your minority to grow up and stop getting offended all the time you may be a traitor brainwashed into accepting Chinese superiority, writes a millionaire Indian.
Some commentators seem to think so, but they surely must be unaware of how the world looks like.
My foreign readers, unacquainted with Singaporean governance, may find it surprising to learn that the country has no debt (net), that the government does not borrow money to finance public spending and that all the surpluses it generates are directed to the nation's reserves upon completion of every
Much has already been said about the Singaporean General Election of 2020 - and even more is coming in the days and weeks ahead of us. But I think for all the complexity involved - the Covid-19 situation, looming economic troubles, epidemic spreading in the dorms, a general shutdown of
I have to admit that one of the benefits of the internet is that it has become the stage for often ridiculous mental gymnastics of blind adherents of certain ideologies, who then have to reconcile them with factual reality. Amazing twists, turns, jumps, and contortions of this circus could put
Ahead of the Singaporean election, I penned a piece that summarized the coming vote as likely the most significant since the bitterly contested GE of 1963. And it was... ...sort of. As politicians and Singaporeans turn in for the (very late) night, it's not likely there are going
As if the global pandemic wasn't enough, 2020 appears to be quite an important year in global politics. First, Taiwan voted on its president - giving pro-independence Tsai Ing-wen her second term. Then Israel finally managed to form a unity government after two failed attempts in 2019. In
