The Importance of Opposition in Parliament
Apart from contributing to parliamentary debates and discourses, offering different views on issues, I consider one other very important role of the oppositions in Parliament is to hold the incumbent government accountable. To me, Sylvia Lim has always been brave and sensible and now, after watched, listened and thinking through...
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China
China is able to make remarkable progress over the past three decades and longer. The China media often described the progress as being made "under the leadership of the Communist Party of China". The western media has criticized this system as being undemocratic. I hold a different view. The one party system ensures that the...
A look-back at the intricacies and intrigues of the political regime
The protagonists were a pompous former PM Lee Kuan Yew , an iniquitous former permanent secretary Tay Seow Huah and charlatan ex-president SR Nathan. Sir Thomas Raffles discovered Singapore in 1819 and with his uncanny foresight and the entrepreurial industry of the Chinese immigrant turned this fishing village into what is...
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