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Posts tagged with "lee kuan yew"
Let the people judge
May. 22 | Andrew Loh / With special thanks to Martyn See On 10 June 1987, Mr Tan Wah Piow released a book, which few Singaporeans would have known or know about. It was called, “Let the people judge – Confessions of the most wanted person in Singapore.” The...
Temasek Holdings – still “long term” strategy despite huge losses?
May. 22 | Our investment thesis had changed from Merrill’s specific businesses to the more diversified BoA linkage to the broader US economy. Temasek spokesman Myrna Thomas, explainin why Temasek sold its stake in Bank of America (BoA), resulting in estimated...
Chiam’s finest hour (part two): the government responds
May. 21 | “I think he could not understand the truth of this incident or he would not want to understand the truth of this incident. If he could not understand the matter then his political consciousness or understanding is very low. If he does not want...
Was it a Red or White conspiracy?
May. 21 | Breaking News: 100 people turned up at Speakers’ Corner Thursday evening to mark 22nd anniversary of “Marxist Conspiracy”. TOC will carry a report of it soon. Breaking News: Ministry of Education releases Information Sheet on Ministry...
Symmetrical minds
May. 7 | We hired people on the basis of their O- and A-level results… So you’ve got symmetrical minds, and the same thing happened with HDB flats, I looked at them, all the same shape and size. MM Lee Kuan Yew
Singapore beyond Lee Kuan Yew
Apr. 21 | Deborah Choo “The price to Singapore of the PAP’s extraordinarily successful half-century of governance is that the system is now particularly vulnerable to the internal self-renewal of the PAP itself.” – Ho Kwon Ping. International journalists,...
Not a pent-up society
Apr. 21 | This is not a pent up society waiting for the demise of the strongman in order to overturn highly unpopular laws. Ho Kwon Ping
Don’t delude yourselves, MM Lee tells S’poreans
Apr. 10 | Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has urged Singaporeans not to delude themselves that they are part of the First-World in South-east Asia. Straits Times, 10 April, 2009.
Investing in Suzhou industrial park was “foresight”, says MM Lee
Apr. 10 | One example of foresight that he cited: How Singapore, seeing that China was rising, had gone out of its way to be helpful, such as with the Suzhou industrial park. The experience has given us “an entree into all the cities of China”. “They are...
Blog Feature: Films Act – a class act to follow
Apr. 9 | Excerpts from blog post on pngapore: I saw this DVD on sale at some supermarket. I have seen books on Lee KuanYew but this is the first time I have seen a DVD on him. I wonder if this political film complies with the above conditions. I wonder if there...
Why I choose to remain single
Apr. 5 | I would advise young men and women not to delay getting married and having children. I say this not to be politically correct. I say it in all sincerity because I have enjoyed a happy family life as a daughter and a sister, and I see both my brothers...
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...
An affront to Singapore’s history
Mar. 24 | Andrew Loh / with contribution from Farquhar The changes to the Films Act, announced yesterday by the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), is a vintage example of PAP doublespeak. In introducing the amendments Senior Minister of State for Information,...
Quality men in government
Mar. 21 | If you get capable people forming the next Government, people who know what they have to do to make Singapore work, then I’m not worried. … I’m worried about the quality of the people who get into power. Integrity? Crucial. Ability, experience...
A look back on things said in 2008 (Update: 8)
Dec. 30 | As the year comes to a close, we look back on some of the more memorable things that were said in 2008. The situation looks a lot gloomier now than when they went in but these are long-term investments. It looks under water now, but the situation...
Golden u-turn, period.
Nov. 10 | We are into a period of good economic growth and social development. Singapore made 6.6 per cent growth in the last quarter of 2006 and 6.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2007. If there are no wars or oil crises, this golden period can stretch out over...
First-world compared to… ?
Nov. 10 | We all have to accept some sacrifices and cutbacks. But compared to our counterparts in neighbouring countries, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, our low income earners are much better off. Lee Kuan Yew
How can “Lui Kong” be so prejudiced?
Oct. 26 | Ho Cheow Seng / Guest Writer My father has incomplete Secondary Education in English. He speaks better Mandarin than he does the English Language. So he’s an anglophone at the mesolectal level. My mother, like my father, came from China when she...
More foreigners, down the spiral
Oct. 25 | If we’ve more foreigners than Singaporeans, then the Singaporeans will become like the foreigners, and we lose our basic attributes. We’ll be down the spiral. Lee Kuan Yew
MM Lee on “assortative mating”
Oct. 24 | Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew: “That is the way the world is. I have explained this. I think I lost votes after I explained the awful truth. Nobody believed it, but slowly it dawned on them – especially the graduates – that yes, you marry a non-graduate,...
The unintended consequences of a globalised world
Aug. 14 | This is the speech by Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, at the Tanjong Pagar 43rd National Day celebration, 13 August 2008. The unintended consequences of a globalised world The end of the Cold War in 1991 triggered off a series of changes that has resulted...
Bogeyman again?
Aug. 14 | We’ll find a way to have more voices inside the assembly, but not at the risk of voting in a Division 2 or 3 Government. Lee Kuan Yew
Is MM Lee playing the same old record?
Jul. 13 | The army would have to be called in if there is a ‘freak election result’. Singaporeans need a ‘good dose of incompetent government’. If we had an alternative in government ‘our women will become maids in other people’s countries’. Singaporeans...
