TR EMERITUS

It’s the 9th of March and it has officially been 23 years since the tragedy of Exercise Swift Lion, which took the lives of Ronnie Tan Han Chong and Low Yin Tit. This was an incident which scared the youth of my national service batch. We were, as they say, supposed to be a privileged batch, - the first artillery batch to... 

Lim Chin Siong Lim Chin Siong was a prominent figure at the height of the Communist United Front (CUF) campaign in the fifties and sixties in the last century. Lim Chin Siong was born in Singapore but grew up in Pontian, Johore and was educated at the Chinese High School in Singapore. The Chinese HIgh School was a hotbed of... 

Neutron Jack Welsh, the former CEO of General Electric (“GE”) died at the age of 84 today. Mr. Welsh was the “Management Guru” for my era, the era of Gen X. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Welsh was hailed as the role model of what a CEO should be. When he took over the reigns of GE in 1981, the market capitalization...