TR EMERITUS

The story of the HDB is in many ways the story of the People’s Action Party. For decades, the story has been this: Give the PAP your votes and your support and we will make sure you have a roof over your head, a HDB home and an asset which keeps growing and growing in value. Lee Kuan Yew, fond of calling Singaporeans “daft,”... 

My fellow Singaporeans, I am sure by now that many of you have had the chance to watch Lee Hsien Loong’s National Day Rally speech last Sunday. Though in truth, as many of you have already realised, this was not a National Day Rally speech, it was an electioneering speech, laden with election gimmicks because vote-harvesting... 

“There seems to be a certain sourness on the ground, with more grumbling than usual about issues especially to do with the government,” says the Straits Times editor-at-large, Han Fook Kwang, in The Sunday Times. Mr Han calls on the government, especially the 4th generation leadership, to “rise to the occasion” and “tackle...