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Posts tagged with "china"
Google: a new approach to China
Jan. 14 | Google Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted...
Should China execute a mentally ill drug smuggler?
Jan. 2 | Alvin Phoon China, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, boasting rich history, almost 10 million square kilometres of land and a 1.4 billion strong population, is destined to be a major power. Her impact on the world we know today cannot be...
What does China’s Climate Change target mean?
Dec. 10 | Feng Wang Feng Wang is a Chinese student who is enrolled in graduate study on environmental economics and carbon management at the Illinois Institute of Technology. As part of the coverage on COP15, TOC will be featuring opinions from all over the world...
Road to Hajj – China
Nov. 26 | “Islam was first introduced in China in 650 AD by one of Prophet Muhammad’s companion.” Al Jazeera follows Chinese Muslims as they prepare to undertake the hajj pilgrimage.
Is Singapore a better place without foreigners?
Nov. 21 | The following is a comment posted on TOC by “AAA”, under the article, “How Singapore appreciates a PRC who tried to integrate”. The author of the comment describes himself as a “PRC scholar”. TOC tried to get in touch with him but our email...
How Singapore appreciates a PRC talent who tried to integrate
Nov. 20 | Excerpts from “Frankly Speaking” blog: All the talk about PRC scholars remind me of my classmate in NUS. He was born and bred in China. He had arrived earlier with his parents and attended JC and did well. Unlike the PRC scholars, he spoke decent...
China can be source of strength for community of nations – Obama
Nov. 15 | So the United States does not seek to contain China, nor does a deeper relationship with China mean a weakening of our bilateral alliances. On the contrary, the rise of a strong, and prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations....
Chinese worker issued with receipt containing vulgarities
Oct. 5 | Editor’s Note: This article was originally a facebook note written by Stephanie Chok. It was published here at TOC’s request. Stephanie Chok Looking at it makes me sick. Sick with rage, disbelief, and sadness. I arrived in Geylang yesterday...
Tiananmen – The massacre, 20 years on
Jun. 4 | From the BBC: The massacre of pro-democracy supporters by Chinese troops in Beijing on the 3-4 June 1989 marked the end of the largest political protest in communist China’s history. James Miles – the BBC’s China correspondent at the...
Growing the economy – Indian style
May. 26 | Fang Shi Han / Bangalore, India Despite many bureaucratic inefficiencies and a lacking infrastructure, India is fast emerging as an economic powerhouse that poses a serious challenge to rising China and the West. Much has been said about a ‘rising...
In memory of the victims of the Sichuan Earthquake
May. 11 | Gilbert Goh 12 May marks the first anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake which struck China last year. I thank the Straits Times for putting up an insightful account of the earthquake in its 11 May edition, “True grit on the road to recovery”....
Beyond dialects and languages
Mar. 27 | Kelvin Teo / TOCI Writer So the dust has now settled over Minister Mentor Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s provocative call to chinese Singaporeans to focus on learning mandarin instead of their dialects. From a personal perspective, I didn’t find Mr...
