Sunday May 26 2013

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March 22, 2013
Challenges to becoming a global city

Building resentment towards foreign workers is proving to be damaging for Singapore’s growth.

Singapore’s ambition of becoming a global city that attracts the world’s top talents is facing a setback in the face of a strong public backlash against immigration.

Whether the policy was poorly implemented or explained, the pursuit of this objective is now clouded by a fog of resentment against foreigners.

Transforming the republic into a flourishing cosmopolis has long been the dream of the ageing Lee Kuan Yew, who once said he would like to see it take place before he leaves this world.

March 1, 2013
A tough time to love

The day CY Leung was sworn in marks the beginning of a full scale effort to create a crisis of governance and hamstring the populist social programs promised by the new chief executive. SL Luo talks to Patrick Ko Tat-pun, the man behind a burgeoning movement to turn the political focus back to what is important to the people of Hong Kong.

It’s no secret Hong Kong’s political climate has gone toxic. For all anyone can tell, it could get worse, should there come a time when Hong Kong’s shining political luminaries graduate from hurling small missiles across the chamber floor, to engage in the same, full-scale, gladiatorial pugilism that stamped Taiwan’s “Legislative Yuan” as the Wild West of modern day parliamentary institutions.

December 21, 2012
China pivotal to Australia's success

Nearly half a century ago, Geoffrey Blainey's The Tyranny of Distance argued that Australia's geographic position shaped Australians' psychological attitudes.

Nearly half a century ago, Geoffrey Blainey's The Tyranny of Distance argued that Australia's geographic position shaped Australians' psychological attitudes. The long distance between Australia and its colonial forebears in Europe, and also the United States, made Australians unsure of their future economic prosperity.

October 12, 2012
Building prodigy

Indonesian tycoon develops modest family housing company into mega real estate business

Real estate tycoon Rudy Margono’s life and career is far from being a rags-to-riches story. He is from a well-to-do Chinese-origin family in Jakarta.

His birth was greeted with jubilation as after four daughters, his traditional parents were relieved a son and heir would continue the family line.

The young heir was sent abroad to be educated, first to the Telok Kurau Primary School in Singapore — the alma mater of Singapore’s first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew — and then to Los Angeles.

July 20, 2012
Asia’s thought leader

Considered one of the world’s top thinkers, Kishore Mahbubani has championed the idea of Asia’s rise for the last 20 years

In November last year, Professor Kishore Mahbubani was named one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011” by Foreign Policy magazine. It was the third time he made the list, having also done so in 2005 and 2010.

“The first time may have been a fluke, but making the list for the second and third time makes me think my ideas may be having an impact,” says Mahbubani, who was appointed dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore in 2004 after a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years in Singapore’s foreign service.

July 20, 2012
Asia’s thought leader

Considered one of the world’s top thinkers, Kishore Mahbubani has championed the idea of Asia’s rise for the last 20 years

In November last year, Professor Kishore Mahbubani was named one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011” by Foreign Policy magazine. It was the third time he made the list, having also done so in 2005 and 2010.

“The first time may have been a fluke, but making the list for the second and third time makes me think my ideas may be having an impact,” says Mahbubani, who was appointed dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore in 2004 after a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years in Singapore’s foreign service.

May 27, 2011
Tending to the most prominent family

As a nanny and domestic helper for five decades, Ouyang Huanyan has cleaned up after some pretty big hitters.
Lying in a wooden chair and watching a soap opera in her South China village is a far cry from her days in Singapore taking care of the prime minister’s children.
“The work was not too hard and we were like part of the same family,” she said, displaying photos taken with the family of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore.


As a nanny and domestic helper for five decades, Ouyang Huanyan has cleaned up after some pretty big hitters.


Lying in a wooden chair and watching a soap opera in her South China village is a far cry from her days in Singapore taking care of the prime minister’s children.


“The work was not too hard and we were like part of the same family,” she said, displaying photos taken with the family of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore.


May 27, 2011
Tending to the most prominent family

As a nanny and domestic helper for five decades, Ouyang Huanyan has cleaned up after some pretty big hitters.
Lying in a wooden chair and watching a soap opera in her South China village is a far cry from her days in Singapore taking care of the prime minister’s children.
“The work was not too hard and we were like part of the same family,” she said, displaying photos taken with the family of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore.


As a nanny and domestic helper for five decades, Ouyang Huanyan has cleaned up after some pretty big hitters.


Lying in a wooden chair and watching a soap opera in her South China village is a far cry from her days in Singapore taking care of the prime minister’s children.


“The work was not too hard and we were like part of the same family,” she said, displaying photos taken with the family of former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of Singapore.


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