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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... 

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... 

Singaporeans cannot be faulted for casting envious glances at our neighbours and wondering what on earth is happening. They threw out their government after 61 years and suddenly national pride has shot up and euphoria is running high. To add to their joy, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng announced to Malaysians that they will...