What would Dr Goh Keng Swee have made of all this?
Dr Goh Keng Swee is known as a visionary, reformer and economic architect of Singapore. He was also a stickler for plain English, urging civil servants to communicate in no-frills, non-verbose style. In a speech in 1979, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew shared that Dr Goh used to “give every officer whom he thinks is promising...
Chan Chun Sing, the millionaire Parrot Man?
“One day, two speeches, full of fluff and nothing original”. Quite unfortunately – and even shockingly – we are not taking about some mid-level bureaucrat here but someone who could potentially be our next Prime Minister. Yesterday, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing gave an interview with CNBC while also...
Review of ‘The Media Enthralled, Singapore Revisited’ by Francis T Seow
The Media Enthralled, published in 1998, is a meticulous documentation of how the free press was subverted and enslaved. Not only was the local press with powerful private ownership brought to its knees, the foreign press too were subjugated. Like other books of the author, I read The Media Enthralled with a dictionary by my...
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