Sense And Nonsense

Congratulations to Team LKT for winning the FAS elections.  They have got what the new FAS President Lim Kia Tong described as their magic target of 30 out of the 44 affiliates who cast their votes on Saturday. That...

For the time being, the FAS story is not about Game Changing. It is quagmired in a Blame Game, in soccer parlance, passing the ball around. And the game is being played rather curiously, with the unsaid and the...

There are some issues that are slow burning. Important enough but perhaps not all that sexy to get all that many people hot and bothered. But they are all-Singaporean stuff, as local as CPF or Katong. Three of these...

I was wondering how I could somehow find something, some common thread, to sum up an extraordinary week. I don’t think I will succeed one hundred per cent. I may even sound incoherent. But I will do my best,...

First, Dr Adrian Tan Cheng Bock, 76. The former PAP MP for Ayer Rajah and, more important, the man who would and could have been Singapore’s last elected president, is unhappy about being robbed of a chance to try again. In...

This is the 4-D week.  No, I am not celebrating winning $50k playing my favourite numbers, though I wish I am. Sorry, no Huat Ah! It is more like What Dah. What a week. Let’s start with the first D -...

What have Beauty And The Beast, HUDC and Asean in common? Let me humbly attempt to answer that question. There are some lessons to be learnt which ultimately may determine our ability to survive in this world, sometimes despite...