子曰：富與貴，是人之所欲也，不以其道得之，不處也；貧與賤，是人之惡也，不以其道得之，不去也。君子去仁，惡乎成名？君子無終食之間違仁，造次必於是，顛沛必於是。 Confucius said: Men aspire to wealth and status; when these c...

On 19 November 2025 at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum gala dinner in Singapore, Lawrence Wong was asked to analyse , from the view of Asia...

It has been exactly a month since the sudden closure of indie and second-run cinema operator The Projector . The closure may have provoked w...

A democratic and liberal housecleaning is possible in Malaya Having won an unprecedented election, Tun Dr Mahathir's new administra...

Civil society activists in Singapore will no doubt claim that legislation against fake news is inevitable and imminent, that it is part of t...

Aside from Singapore , other far more democratic countries are considering or have already passed laws against fake news. When the inevitabl...

Bertha Henson and Daniel Yap have announced the impending closure of The Middle Ground (TMG), revealing that the news website had failed to...

After Sonny Liew won several Eisner awards for the graphic novel which the National Arts Council (NAC) of Singapore has previously denounce...

When we wrote a mini-review of Sonny Liew's presentation of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye almost 2 years ago, we remarked that the ...

Youtube influencer Shrey Bhargava attended an audition for the next installment in Hack Neo's "Ah Boys to Men" NSploitation...

The Omnishambles so far... On 10 February 2017, Singapore's National Library Board (NLB) unveiled the new name for the Old Ford ...

In our "Rise of the anti-intellectual, illiberal left" category, the question is: Which of the following did not happen this wee...

Tiny and rich Singapore flails comically when it comes to Indonesia and the haze. For all its claims to being a diplomatic giant on the w...

Being a review of the final in a long, year-long series of seminars Singapore's Literary Myths Is a national literature a reflect...

Being a review of the 9th in a year-long series of seminars Poor people don't like oats either Teo You Yenn is a sociologist w...

Taiwan Review has published a few excerpts from Loh Kah Seng's new book, Squatters into Citizens . Followers of the Living with Myths ...

From Republic of Singapore to Republic of Nanyang In the midst of the political purges of Singapore’s early post-independence years, the P...

To boldly go... It is possible to typify the leadership of early Singapore and the PAP as a triumvirate consisting of Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Ke...

Being a review of the 8th in a year-long series of seminars Openness and reform under the shadow of danger An authoritarian regime o...

Lee Kuan Yew, the political realist and chameleon The pre-merger consensus in Singapore in the post-war decades was for a pan-Malayan ide...