Dr Cherian George has argued that the PAP government needs to invest in the credibility of the press. He pointed out that the government model of 'mass attention-on-demand through the mass media' is outdated and that its insistence on a 'crippled press' shows 'short term rationality', something that has 'hardened into dogma'. George insists that it is in Singapore's long term …

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has stated on numerous occasions that finding and grooming his successor - the fourth PM of Singapore - is imperative. He did explicitly state that he would like to have a younger PM succeeding him, but beyond that, PM Lee does not discuss the specific qualities for the next PM. I would like to take a stab in thinking broadly about the …

The exit of Ho Ching can be seen as the rebranding of Temasek as a Government-Linked Company to a domestic crowd, and as a Sovereign Wealth Fund to an international audience. Ho Ching's send off is overall a nicely timed publicity move to restore some hope in Temasek, especially when its high profile strategic investments in Wall Street have suffered considerable short term …

The Savings and Employee Retirement Plan, or Saver scheme, for commissioned SAF officers was launched with much fanfare in 1998. Two years later, the PREMIUM scheme, for warrant officers was launched. Last month, it was announced that the career schemes for officers and WOs will be 'enhanced' and that a third career track, the Military Domain Experts Scheme (MDES), was being …

We live in a brave new world. With the advances of internet technologies, citizen journalism has been touted to be an alternative challenge to the mainstream media. Recent events such as the Singapore Elections 2006 and the Mr Brown affair have created ripples that can tilt the balance on the Singapore government's control of the internet. In this article, we analyze the …

Anyone of my generation would recall the copious amounts of indoctrination being applied upon us in school. There is this particular piece of Malthusian absurdity which I would like to debunk today. It is called "Singapore has no natural resources, and the only thing we have is people, therefore we must make full use of our human resource"

Our pledge says "to build a democratic society based on justice and equality so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and progress for our nation". The KTM was thinking about the pledge and realized that he's not completely sure what this means...

There seems to be a misunderstanding among the general public that the HPI measures happiness and that Singapore, being ranked down in the pits of the index, is an unhappy society. The main point that I want to make is this: Singaporeans are not unhappy, but rather the index shows that Singaporeans are one of the happiest people around, except that we are too ecologically …

The next general election would have many first, amongst which will include the largest number of post 65 generation voters and perhaps politicians ever. However, are young Singapore politicians responsive to young Singaporeans' concerns about the future of Singapore?

In the past few years, a lot of emphasis have been placed on social entrepreneurship. Like the euphoria of business plan competitions, the Singaporean business community has jumped on the bandwagon to create an awareness in this new buzzword "social entrepreneurship". Unfortunately, the notion of social enterprise has been marred by the NKF incident. In this …