TR EMERITUS

Chia Ti Lik A very learned friend was a participant in an IRC discussion. The IRC discussion was about the local political scene purportedly mandating paper qualifications for credible candidature. I was told that a lot of good arguments were thrown up and they are in short summarized hereinbelow. I have reproduced these with... 

Dear Fellow Singaporean, It has taken a lot of your blood, sweat and tears over some nearly 50 years for Singaporeans to get to where we are today. But the next election is not about where we have been and what we have done, it is about the kind of Singapore we leave behind for our children. It is about the next 50 years. The... 

Those familiar with Singapore's political history will remember the role played by student activists in the '50s and early '60s. But that ended when schools were depoliticised after independence. For better or worse, schools have been neutral and independent institutions of learning for the past few decades. So I was surprised...