FUTURE OF SINGAPORE

UPDATE!

Videos recorded by The Online Citizen on 30 November 2019, at the launch of The Policy Prtoposal:
 

• Summary of the policy proposal by Ku Swee Yong.
   

• Presentation by Yeoh Lam Keong on why the proposals are fiscally affordable and will not significantly...

This essay revisits LKY’s hard truths in the light of changing world conditions. In doing so it has to propose some new ideas in brief but which will need to be developed in greater scope and depth later.

INTRODUCTION:

Lee Kuan Yew left a system and a governing philosoph...

I refer to the success narrative in Kishore Mahbubani's "Three Stories to strengthen the Singapore Spirit" published by The Straits Times on April 12.

A nation's history has its successes and failures as he arightly pointed out. We must be humble in parading the success...

The following is the text of my remarks at the Singapore Theatre Festival’s Art and Life Session #03, “History, His Story, Whose Story?”, Sunday 24 July 2016. My fellow speakers were Tan Pin Pin, Sonny Liew, and Jason Soo, and the panel was moderated by Alfian Sa'at. D...

Tay Kheng Soon wants the public to interact with his students to ground them in reality as they try to understand and imagine a possible future of Singapore. For the coming NUS Architecture Year 4, semester 1, Tay Kheng Soon Design-Research Studio, he has set "The Futu...

On 11 July 2016, the Government tabled the Administration of Justice (Protection) Bill ("Proposed Legislation") for first reading in parliament. According to a Straits Times report, the Minister for Law claimed that the Proposed Legislation does not expand the definiti...

Inconvenient Questions closed operations last weekend. As a contributor to the new website, IQ’s closing brings a sense of loss that few might feel, given its limited reach. Nevertheless, for those of us watching the media scene in Singapore, the loss of every website...

Future of Singapore (FOS) is primarily an internet forum where serious topics affecting Singapore, its neighbouring countries, the Indo-Pacific region and world affairs are discussed.
 

Everything that happens in the world affects Singapore. There is evidence of gl...

When  the public disapproves of the government’s heavy handed action against an individual critic, the blame is often leveled at the Prime Minister, or his ministers. At times the court too comes under criticism. But a post which has so far avoided much public scrutiny...

Thomas Paine famously wrote: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that reach to himself.”

There are very few cases besides free expression that this statement holds...