TR EMERITUS

China is able to make remarkable progress over the past three decades and longer. The China media often described the progress as being made "under the leadership of the Communist Party of China". The western media has criticized this system as being undemocratic. I hold a different view. The one party system ensures that the... 

Going by what Heng said in his Budget statement, you’d think that our spending would be Swiss-standard. Well the spending is not. And other developed countries are spending a lot more than the Swiss. Ain’t it funny that our five part-time PAP mayors are each paid more than the full time mayor of London, a global city, while... 

China has a good system to pass their national laws. The main body to pass laws is the National People's Congress (NPC). The laws are scrutinized and debated in the standing committee and then presented to the NPC for voting. Critics said that the NPC is a rubber stamping body. This is an unfair way to describe it. As the NPC...