It’s pretty normal for humans to experiment – especially children. As I kid, I used to catch tadpoles, bring them home in plastic bags, transfer them to glass jars and pretty much made a mess of the kitchen area where I also kept different species of worms and insects. I also played around with baking […]
And the influential brands just love them. On second thought, that should not be too surprising since it’s far easier to get fools than thinkers to buy your things. Just when you think that virtually famous bloggers and photographers who extort money and steal other people’s photos ought to be behaving themselves by now, another […]
Thailand is often called mai pen rai (never mind) land for some pretty good reasons. You can often see people riding their motorbikes without helmets, driving when drunk, parking at emergency exits etc without facing legal consequences (though they may face a different kind of consequences) as long as the policeman on duty is not […]
Much as it disgusts me, let me try to make a note of this historic moment as calmly as I can. First of all, a new scheme called CareShield Life. This scheme will feature higher payouts that increase over time with no cap on payout duration, to provide better protection against the uncertainty of long-term […]
The debate on teachers’ “clean wages” and “self discipline” opened a can of worms on double standards and elite privileges. The usual indomitable Straits Times: Charging parking fees at schools is about upholding the value of self-discipline, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung has said in a Facebook post in response to Member of Parliament Seah […]
Plagiarism is not new. It has existed since time immemorial (an episode of Justice Bao had one scholar stealing another scholar’s work) and in the digital age some 20 years ago, I met an interesting personality online. He first said that he was a day trader. Then, he became an investment banker with a private […]
In an interview with the Financial Times on 28 May 2018, Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad said that the electoral victory of Pakatan Harapan coalition would reverberate across the Causeway. He added that “the people of Singapore, like the people in Malaysia, must be tired of having the same government, the same party […]
Translated from the book What’s The Big Deal? 没什么了不起 by Singaporean author Chua Lam. Earlier, I had been on a TV programme in Beijing, but my main aim for going there was to give a talk to students at Beijing University. I have given talks at Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Columbia, Heidelberg, but the lecture at […]
May 20 2018. At a dialogue session with 110 participants held in collaboration with the Singapore Business and Professional Women’s Association, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam reiterated the importance of individual responsibility in society. He said: “Whoever your parents are, whatever your situation is, if you work hard, you can succeed, even (for […]
History was made in Malaysia on wee hours of 10th May 2018. The Barisan Nasional BN, led by the United Malays National Organisation UMNO which had ruled Malaysia for over 60 years, was voted out of office in Malaysia’s GE14. The former opposition, an alliance of smaller opposition parties which call itself Pakatan Harapan, was […]