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Showing posts with label Commentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commentary. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2026

China does not plan to invade Taiwan in 2027: US intel report

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The Annual Threat Assessment report said that Chinese leaders "do not currently plan to execute an invasion of Taiwan in 2027, nor do t...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

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Singapore appoints UK firm Mott MacDonald to study nuclear energy technologies The Energy Market Authority said no decision had been made to...

'So tiring' to be friends with Singaporeans, says French woman

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Amandine Honvault got lots of responses to her cheeky video. SCREENGRAB: NEWTOSINGAPORE/TIKTOK Sep 1, 2025 "Their expectations are unma...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Megan Khung deserved better. It takes all of us to keep other children like her safe

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 Video: "Hope she rots in hell..." Worst Mom Ever Megan Khung died after her mother Foo Li Ping's boyfriend Wong Shi Xiang pu...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Lawrence Wong on implications of US tariffs for Singapore

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PM Lawrence Wong on implications of US tariffs for Singapore | Full video Trump is a moron who doesn't understand Tariffs. Sure, if the ...
Friday, April 4, 2025

About "Signalgate"

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Video: Signalgate. It's Worse Than You Think. || Peter Zeihan The Atlantic magazine publishes US attack plan mistakenly shared in cha...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Why I don’t complain that Singapore is boring

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Finding any city interesting is a lot like falling in love. The getting-to-know-each-other stage has to be meaningful and purposeful on both...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Pope Francis commends Singapore's policies supporting the vulnerable, hopes for special attention to poor and elderly

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Pope Francis also highlighted the risk of focusing solely on pragmatism or "placing merit above all things", consequently excludin...
Friday, September 13, 2024

New "United Front"? Chinese Agents in South East Asia?

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Firstpost is an India-based, obviously biased, anti-Chinese, news channel. So they would highlight or feature any news item that would put C...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Tommy Koh 'not convinced' by Income Insurance's reasons for sale to German insurer

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"Income is not a loss making company in need of rescue," he said. Ilyda Chua August 01, 2024 Tommy Koh said that while he is a ...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

This is Singapore. This is what I Identify with.

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 A twenty minute interview with two Naturalised Citizens. One was born in Shanghai China, came to Singapore in 1997, then applied for Citi...

40yo NUS alumnus says “Singapore Dream” is a ‘nightmare’ because ‘he has no wife, no house, no children, no car, no nothing

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ByAnna Maria Romero  MAY 22, 2024 SINGAPORE: A graduate of one of Singapore’s top universities had advice for everyone, writing in a social ...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Will the Indian economy ever surpass that of China?

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Alicia García-Herrero Apr 30, 2024  India’s growth rate is clearly higher than that of China, especially since 2022, and there is no expecta...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Singapore's response to Economist's "sneering" article about Singapore's leadership transition

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First, Shanmugam response: So the Economist noted that Lawrence Wong would only be the 4th PM in 59 years. Whereas, anybody knows a true a...
Friday, April 12, 2024

How China became a Military Superpower

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 TL;DR - They hack their way:
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

How Deng and his heirs misunderstood Singapore

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MARK R THOMPSON  01 FEB, 2019 As official China celebrates the four decades of “reform and opening” that began in late 1978 to early 1979, i...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The future of ‘communist capitalism’ in China

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The question of whether Xi-ism is killing Deng-ism is growing  MARTIN WOLF MARCH 13 2024  What is the economic future of China? This questio...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Comment: Public Housing in Singapore - One big disguised Ponzi scheme?

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[From a FB post in Sept 2009] There has been a raft of letters to the press about how the surging prices of public housing is making it impo...

China’s Lessons from Russia’s War

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Jun 17, 2022 KEVIN RUDD For Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Marxist-Leninist dialectician, the events in Ukraine won’t fundamentally alter C...
Friday, March 15, 2024

The REAL Reason (well, one major reason) why Taylor Swift Chose Singapore

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Infrastructure. Ruben Pinatacan responded to a query (on Quora) about whether the Philippines could have hosted the Eras Tour: "Regard...