The honourable children of Nantah, and the worms
Nantah, or Nanyang University of the 1950s and 1960s was an institution whose history, without exaggeration, was written in blood, tears, political persecutions, and banishments. Nantah should not be mistaken with the present reconstituted institution of the same name. Many of its alumni of the 1950s and 1960s generation regard...
If Ong Teng Cheong was alive today he’d laugh at the Elected Presidency clownshow
Law Minister K Shanmugam asked: “Do you or do you not want to give that power, real power to the President?” Sorry but that is a stupid question. Why? Because once upon a time, the Elected President actually had real power. But what happened? The govt changed the law and made him have less power, after the govt was questioned...
“The Market for Lemons” & ‘Foreign Degrees’
The Economist is running this week with ‘Six big economic ideas: a collection of briefs on the discipline’s (economics) seminal papers’. I will use some of these ideas to offer a different way to look at our current conundrums. George Akerlof, “The Market for Lemons”: Akerlof used the 2nd hand car market to illustrate...
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- Caoliangoh on Pakistan to nuke Israel if…
- Pandora’s box on Iran’s ‘Terrifying’ New Arsenal Brings Israel To Its Knees
- Liar on Pakistan to nuke Israel if…
- unprovoked aggression on Iran’s ‘Terrifying’ New Arsenal Brings Israel To Its Knees
- PAP mandate strong on Pakistan to nuke Israel if…
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