Education: Lessons From China And Singapore
American leaders, impressed by the economic success of Singapore and China, frequently sound envious when talking about those countries' educational systems. President Obama, for example, invoked Singapore in a March 2009 speech, saying that educators there "are spending less time teaching things that don't matter, and more...
Open letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong from Reporters without Borders
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Prime Minister’s Office Orchard Road Istana Singapore 238823 Paris, 25 March 2010 Dear Prime Minister, A foreign news organisation has yet again been forced to apologise to you and your father and pay you a large sum of money for publishing an article you did not like. This time it is the New...
Speech by Dr James Gomez at Speaker’s Corner on 5 January 2010
EDITORS' NOTE: The following speech is reproduced with kind permission from Dr James Gomez Dear friends, Today we gather to commemorate JB Jeyaretnam and his political work which have become symbols for the principles of democracy in Singapore. Over the last 40 years, whether as an individual, a civil society group member or...
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