Faults of democracy
The democratic process is supposed to be a good way of electing the best people to lead a country according to the wishes of the people. In practice, it has produced unsatisfactory results. Here are my observations. a) It has caused the country to be divided between the people who supports the different candidates. The losing...
Fair Play
Last Friday, Taiwan's parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage, a first for Asia. In doing so, it met the deadline imposed by the constitutional court, which struck down the Civil Code's definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and woman in 2017. Singapore Unbound salutes all the Taiwanese LGBTQ activists and...
To achieve political goals through misrepresentations is plain despicable
Why are so many people so very upset about the 99 years lease decay? To answer that question, we must be absolutely honest with ourselves. Singapore's land area is only about 722 square kilometres, or about 1/27th the size of Johor. In it, there are competing demands for housing, industrial developments, hospitals, schools,...
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