Tag: Lee Kuan Yew

Cycling, FOMB Book Blog, Malaysia, Media, Migrants, PAP, Singapore

Singapore’s population policies: Book extract in the New Straits Times, Nov 5th 2012

Ahead of my book launch in KL this Saturday, Malaysia’s New Straits Times (NST) has published an excerpt from my book, Floating on a Malayan Breeze, today. Over the past few weeks, NUS Press, one of my co-publishers, and I had been lobbying the Malaysian media channels, trying to get them to feature us. Last week, NST confirmed the passage they would like to run. … Continue reading Singapore’s population policies: Book extract in the New Straits Times, Nov 5th 2012

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh11 Comments
Democracy, Economist Group, EIU, Freedom, Identity, PAP, Singapore

The problem with the national conversation: information asymmetries

Dear friends, as long as there are significant information asymmetries in the government-citizen relationship, Singapore will never be able to have a completely fair and open national conversation. What information asymmetries exist? Simply, the government has all the data and information, and we, the people, are given only selective access to it. Whenever people talk about the “lack of information” or the need for a … Continue reading The problem with the national conversation: information asymmetries

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh13 Comments
Freedom, Malaysia, Singapore

The End of Identity?

Dear friends, what does it mean to be Singaporean? Can we even build a national identity when less than half of our total population was born here? I published an essay on IPS Commons today examining these issues. Please click here to read it. A shorter version is available on Yahoo! Please click here if you have less time 🙂 Would love to hear your … Continue reading The End of Identity?

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