The mysterious Katie Jones and other social media menaces

LONDON • The recently concluded European parliamentary elections were the first sizeable polls anywhere in the world in which teams of...

安华任相困难重重

正当马来西亚穆斯林在履行斋戒的宗教义务，并且准备庆祝开斋节之时，执政的人民公正党槟城植物园州议员王康立，突然在6月4日向国内媒体发文，宣称该党的全国主席安华，因为受到马来统治者的认同，再加上其又是国内最大执政党的党魁，所以已是这个国家的“实权首相”。另外，王康立也在文中表明拥有十足信心，觉得现任的“...

正视建设性政治的维续与演化

平实而言，建设性政治难有准确无误的定义与解读。如此表述，并不是因为义理上无法做出说明，更多是因为不同政治体制的创导与维护者，各有其解读的维度与目的。因此，撇开普世价值观的争论，无疑将有助于人们对建设性政治，更多从体制繁衍中的利弊寻找答案。 作为追随英国西敏寺议会民主体制的新加坡，...

合久必分——中美关系濒临战略拐点

中国古典小说《三国演义》开篇明义：“话说天下大势, 合久必分,...

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Flying taxis will bring traffic jams to the sky

When Rick Deckard, hero of the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner, gazes down at a futuristic Los Angeles from a flying police car, a Pan Am...

The choice for S-E Asia isn't between the US and China

At the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue, the premier annual defence and security meeting in the Asia-Pacific, concern about growing US-China rivalry was...

When a pig virus may be a bigger worry than Trump's tantrums

Smack in the middle of a trade war with the US, China is facing a food shortage that is raising prices for consumers. If officials cannot keep...

Netizens displeased with DPM Heng’s statement that GST would be up to 15% if not for Singapore’s healthy reserves

While speaking at the Building our Future of Singapore Together dialogue at the Singapore Management University School of Law on Saturday (15...

Nas Daily commends Singapore for its lack of segregation by virtue of its HDB housing

In a video posted on Friday (15 Jun), Nas Daily commended Singapore for its lack of segregation by virtue of its HDB housing. In the video, Nas...

Digital transformation: big gaps between goals and reality

Working with Singaporeans to create a shared future

We are here to discuss how we can build our future together. At the heart of this topic lies the biggest challenge we will face in the coming...

Lunch With Sumiko: I do it as long as it's the right thing to do, says Shanmugam

Lunch with Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam is initially set to be at a coffee shop in his Chong Pang ward in Yishun. But on the morning...

Defying the odds to walk and live anew

It was a hot January afternoon in 2013. The sun was beating down on Desmond Lim as he sat astride his Kawasaki Versys 1000, waiting for the traffic...

US-China dispute: Now better than later

Why have US-China relations chilled so much and so quickly that it looks like a new Cold War has begun? It was not so long ago that the world,...

A choice to build walls or tear them down

There is a video I like to watch on YouTube of a children's choir standing barefoot in the sands of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, and singing....

Mass-shooting survival tips for adults - from 11-year-old US girl

It seems like just another day in an office in California, when a few employees gather in a room for a staff meeting. But they look a bit taken...