May 18, 2011 Singapore’s New Cabinet announced today by Channel News Asia Singapore–Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has announced changes to his Cabinet line-up. Speaking at a news conference at the Istana, Mr Lee said it is an epochal change as Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew are leaving the [...]
Archive for May 2011
Singapore’s New Cabinet announced today
May 18, 2011The Seven Days that changed Singapore
May 18, 2011May 18, 2011 www.nst.com.my General Elections 2011: The Seven Days that changed Singapore by P.N. Balji* The watershed general election and the exit of veteran politicians signal that a younger generation is poised to shape the future of Singapore, writes P.N. BALJI THESE are heady days in a political oasis called Singapore. A country that [...]
Dirty and Dangerous Politics can hurt Malaysia and Malaysians
May 18, 2011May 18, 2011 Dirty and Dangerous Politics can hurt Malaysia and Malaysians by Ahmad Mustapha Hassan (www. themalaysianinsider.com–May 16, 2011) In sports, games can be made dirty and sometimes fatal. But they only involve the players and nobody else. But in the case of politics, when the game becomes dirty and dangerous, the country and [...]
“Let us embrace moderation…”, says Najib
May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak at Oxford University: Let us embrace moderation “Our choice is clear. Come together in action for a future of justice, freedom, hope, compassion and goodwill for our children or it will be replaced by a future of injustice, tyranny, hopelessness, cruelty and hate. Because the real divide [...]
Moderate Voices must count for Malaysia
May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 Moderate Voices must count for Malaysia’s sake by Karim Raslan @www.thestar.com.my In the country’s current political climate, the hardliners seem to be gaining ground as the moderate voices are drowned out. Despite the gloom, one positive factor stands out – the overall good sense and moderation of Malaysians. ON MAY 7, Utusan [...]
Happy Wesak Day
May 17, 2011May 17, 2011 Happy Wesak Day A Man on a Journey in search of Truth Dr Kamsiah and I wish all Malaysians of Buddhist Faith (including our friend Tean Rean and his family) a happy and peaceful Wesak Day. We are not Buddhist scholars, far from it, but by listening to Tean we have been [...]
The Pacifists and the Trenches
May 16, 2011May 16, 2011 NY Times Sunday Book Review The Pacifists and the Trenches By Christopher Hitchens TO END ALL WARS A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild Woodrow Wilson’s fatuous claim about the European war of 1914-18 — sarcastically annexed by Adam Hochschild for the title of this moving and important book [...]
Integrity and Authenticity matter
May 16, 2011May 16, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/05/15/ Integrity and Authenticity Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor at large of National Review Online and a nationally syndicated columnist. In considering the upsides of pluralism in the life of a democracy, the French Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain wrote: “We know, indeed, that evil and foolishness are more frequent among men [...]
Breaking News: Anwar Ibrahim must make his Defence!
May 16, 2011Anwar to enter his defense in the Sodomy II case. May 16, 2011 Comment: Looking at the response to it (above), this has to be one of the best one liners I have ever written since I commenced blogging in November 2007. It happened when Dr Kamsiah and I were at the US Embassy to [...]
May 16, 2011 Sodomy Judgment Day
May 15, 2011May 15, 2011 May 16 2011: Sodomy 2 Judgment Day: Anwar ought to go free, says Terence Netto His Case is the Focus of Regional and International Attention COMMENT: The modern media melodrama typically involves the courtroom: from Jacob Zuma’s indictment for rape, to Julian Assange’s sex-crime troubles, to Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy arraignments, the dramatic [...]
Rethinking the Singapore Growth Model
May 15, 2011May 15, 2011 Continuity and Change: Rethinking the Singapore Growth Model by M Baskaran @www.theedgemalaysia.com (May 16, 2011) If there is one thing that the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) and the opposition seem to agree on, it was that the just concluded 2011 general elections in Singapore marked a watershed. The PAP secured just [...]
On a Sentimental Journey with Music
May 14, 2011May 14, 2011 Friends, Music time again for this weekend. Let us rest our weary heads and hurried hearts after a week of politics and what have we. Dr. Kamsiah and I have chosen some songs by top entertainers, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin who are no longer with us, leaving as [...]
Cool it, says Home Minister
May 13, 2011May 13, 2011 Cool it, says Home Minister Hishammuddin and let the Police do their work by Boo Su-Lyn@www.themalaysianinsider The police are investigating Utusan Malaysia and two bloggers on their reports alleging a Christian plot to usurp Islam as the religion of the federation, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today. The UMNO daily [...]
Seve Ballesteros laid to rest
May 13, 2011May 13, 2011 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/ The Funeral was like Seve Ballesteros himself – Unforgettable By Ian Chadband, Pedrena 12:03PM BST 11 May 2011 He was a truly colossal figure of world sport but, at heart, remained the small town boy who wanted to be remembered and honoured with quiet dignity like any other humble villager of [...]
Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty reviewed
May 12, 2011May 12, 2011 Book Review (May 8, 2011) http://www.nytimes.com The Constitution of Liberty The Definitive Edition. (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume XVII.) by Friedrich. A. Hayek, edited by Ronald Hamowy 583 pp. University of Chicago Press. $25. Friedrich A. Hayek: A BIG Government Skeptic Review by Francis Fukuyama* The publication of the [...]
Henry Kissinger’s On China
May 12, 2011May 12, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/books/ Books of The Times An Insider Views China, Past and Future By Michiko Kakutani Published: May 9, 2011 It has been four decades since President Richard M. Nixon sent Henry A. Kissinger to Beijing to re-establish contact with China, an ancient civilization with which the United States, at that point, had [...]
Singapore’s George Yeo is a Loss to ASEAN
May 12, 2011May 12, 2011 http://www.channelnewsasia.com Foreign Minister George Yeo leaves politics and ASEAN loses its advocate By Hoe Yeen Nie/Tan Qiuyi/May Wong | Posted: 10 May 2011 1155 hrs SINGAPORE: Outgoing Foreign Minister George Yeo says he will not be contesting in the next General Election. Speaking at a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign [...]
