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Posts tagged with "MM Lee"
MM Lee’s admission – a good time for govt to reflect on policy
Nov. 19 | Amnesty International Press Release: “If Singapore has pretensions to being an international commercial center, especially in the age of the internet, its legislature must immediately act to bring the country in line with commonly accepted concepts...
MM Lee confirms PM Lee’s fears in 2006
Oct. 22 | Andrew Loh Straits Times, 2009. Picture from Singapore Mind (click to enlarge) In 2006, after the General Elections, PM Lee Hsien Loong warned that Singapore society would be “destroyed” if S’poreans were divided between the haves...
NUS forum with MM Lee had “planted” questions for MM
Oct. 20 | 500 university students deserved better than 9 deliberately planted questions at the NUS Kent Ridge Forum with MM Lee Kuan Yew. Yes, the moderator made it explicitly known that the questions were screened and planted. This isn’t right. Nathaniel...
That speech – highfalutin, over-analysed? Or the hopes of a nation?
Aug. 25 | After all the reaction, condemnation and praise, what is it that NMP Viswa Sadasivan said in Parliament about the Pledge that was so controversial? We hope you will take another look at the following videos of Mr Viswa’s speech again – and decide...
Tan Kin Lian leads investors in National Pledge
Aug. 24 | Mr Tan Kin Lian leading investors in the recitation of the National Pledge at Speakers’ Corner on 22 August 2009.
Once upon a time in Singapore
Aug. 24 | KJ Fulfilling the ideals of the Pledge that we hold so dearly is also a brazen act of high treason. No wonder then, we dare not pledge ourselves too seriously. There was a time not too long ago, when we clenched our fists upon our hearts, and pledged...
The Singapore of our National Pledge
Aug. 21 | Choo Zheng Xi / Editor-at-Large / New York The Singapore we know will change. This revelation wasn’t immediately apparent to me, reading reports of this Parliamentary session’s debate. A continent away, the anger and helplessness I felt at our Finance...
MM Lee brings the House “back to earth”
Aug. 20 | Minister Mentor’s speech in Parliament on Wednesday, 19 August. Video source: Channel NewsAsia. Watch Part Two below.
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
MM Lee on marriage and his daughter, Dr Lee Wei Ling
Mar. 30 | From littlespeck.com: After saying that one-third of men and women in Singapore were single “and quite comfortable with their lives”, the Minister Mentor said: “My daughter is one of them. What can I do?” Then in an unusually emotional mood, Lee...
Speaking dialects helps build rapport, even in business
Mar. 21 | Sng B C Perhaps we may wish to consider the role a dialect plays in building rapport and leading to business opportunities. I refer to the Straits Times article, “Mandarin drive starts in the home”, on March 18, 2009. When I was in secondary school,...
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...
Disadvantageous Mandarin
Mar. 19 | A response to MM Lee KJ There is a lot to be said for Singaporean-Chinese, myself included, to be ascribed a ‘mother tongue’ that is not really my mother’s (or for that matter, my father’s), one that we have to learn from scratch, in effect as...
A response to MM Lee’s private secretary on dialects
Mar. 7 | Deng Chao Recognition of our heritage and respect for diversity are not ignorance I write in response to the Straits Times Forum Letter “Foolish to advocate the learning of dialects”, dated 7 March 2009, by Chee Hong Tat, Principal Private Secretary...
