Does the state of football in Singapore mirror the state of leadership?
Mah Bow Tan, former PAP Minister and President of the Football Association of Singapore, once set a target for the Singapore football team to reach the World Cup finals by 2010 just as how Goh Chok Tong targeted a Swiss standard of living for Singapore by 1999. But both were ill-fated and ill-conceived targets that never came...
The fight for democracy in Asia is alive and well
This opinion piece is part of the Silver Lining Series written by members of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), an organization of liberal and democratic parties in Asia, to celebrate its 25th Anniversary this 2018. For decades, Asian values, under the guise of Confucianism, have been used by the region's autocrats...
Malaysia and Singapore may have more in common than we think
Reading an old article by Marina Mahathir, the outspoken daughter of the Malaysian Prime Minister, it struck me that the kinds of things she wrote about her country could just as well apply to Singapore. The article, headlined “You walk the talk first” recommended changes the government needed to adopt to “share the burden”...
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