TR EMERITUS

Malaysian PM Mahathir will likely seek to renegotiate the terms of our water agreement, according to a Bloomberg interview. This has invited a FB response from former Singapore diplomat, Bidadari Kausikan. Strangely, the response is anything but diplomatic and it appears that Bidadari is out to stir trouble by posting his... 

Remember this? A Financial Times story today said – Mr Mahathir, who always enjoyed needling neighbouring Singapore and its long-ruling People’s Action Party, said the electoral earthquake would reverberate across the narrow Straits of Johor. Mahathir told the Financial Times, “I think the people of Singapore, like the... 

She seemed like a nice enough person, humble and straight talking and one among the elite to live in a HDB flat. The chosen one, as far as the establishment was concerned, the one who could be counted on to bond with Singaporeans. So she became President. But she became President in a way that appeared illegitimate to many. She...