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Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam resigns from the party and from his positions in government to stand for the presidential election. And in the next instant, he is supposed to be free of the People’s Action Party (PAP), free to be his own man, and ready to be an Elected President with no political... 

I ran into a British Born Chinese girl at an event organized by my sister tonight. The conversation inevitably turned to the topic of growing up between East and West. Both of us admitted to being Chinese illiterate and she talked about how everyone in Hong Kong called her a Banana (Yellow on the outside but white on the inside),... 

Many Singapore citizens look at the election of the President as an office to keep a check on the government and to protect the reserves. I do not share their enthusiasm. Right from the start, when the first President was elected in 1991 under the revised constitution, I looked at the office as being unnecessary, wasteful and...