TR EMERITUS

As PAP would have it, they will have their cake and eat it too. Singapore as a price taker is simultaneously to reinstate its vulnerability as the raison d'être for a strong State still using many of the legacy of colonial powers, and as an excuse why its interests are mortgaged to the global market place. Most of the time... 

Many of us have equated the good life to the acquisition of goods. “This concept of humanity argues that what is most ‘human’ about people is their quest after the new, their willingness to violate boundaries, their hatred of the old and the habitual . . . and their need to incorporate ‘more and more’—goods, money,... 

[ Below is original text of my recent 23 Mar 2016 letter emailed to Straits Times Forum Page editor Ms Liaw Wy-Cin — who stubbornly refused to publish the letter, despite its contents being of widespread public concern. ] Salma Khalik’s commentary (“Name those responsible for Hep C infections at SGH“; 19 Mar) had focused...