TR EMERITUS

Having graduated from Raffles Institution (RI) last year, I have witnessed the transformation of the school and would like to share my thoughts on the matter ("RI now a 'middle-class' school / 'Make RI a better school for S'pore'" and "RI population less diverse now, say many alumni"; both published on Aug 4). Singapore is a... 

Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej is protected by one of the world's strictest royal defamation rules under which anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count. A Thai man was jailed for 30 years on Friday for "insulting" the monarchy on Facebook, in one of the toughest... 

Happy 50th birthday Singapore. Whatever is said about the Lion City — its nanny state tendencies, a seeming obsession with finicky rules, the challenges it faces sustaining its position — its economic achievements of the past 50 years are substantial. The death of Lee Kuan Yew in March this year gave an outlet for a raft...