The homeless in Singapore and Berkeley
Down the streets of Berkeley, California, homeless people are seen at nearly every corner. Before I arrived, it was almost unimaginable to me the extent of their ubiquity, and the tolerance the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Using art for social change in China
The nature of art as a medium through which ideas are spread means it could either be appropriated or denounced by the government. As a political artist in China, one treads on thin ice. Artist Ai Wei...
View ArticleWhere is the dragon headed?
China as a rising force has been etched in our minds for the past decade. Yet there is a strange development that had made some nervous: while its influence spreads more extensively, it heads in a less...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Singapore’s own revolution
It is a revolution in Singapore style: no protesting and no chaos, at least observable ones. Singapore is going through a transformative phase, one which is for once not imposed upon by the government...
View ArticleWhat is lacking in Singapore’s society?
It was an innocuous and short paragraph in TODAY’s newspaper, yet it became an overnight sensation. It was reported, a family who just moved to Singapore from China could not stand the smell of curry...
View ArticleInfrastructural problems hamper India’s economic growth
As the West scrambles to resolve their financial woes, it seems the East has it better – perhaps. Last Thursday, India’s central bank issued a trenchant warning: economic growth might fall below 8%....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Singapore: Encouraging immigration to solve population woes?
At a dialogue held at the Nanyang Technology University (NTU) earlier this week, Singapore’s former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told a crowd of 1,800 students that Singapore’s liberal immigration...
View ArticleSingapore: Why Occupy Raffles failed
Throughout the world, ‘Occupy’ protesters continue to take to the streets. London, Greece, and even Tokyo have had seen their fair share of demonstrators. In Singapore, Occupy Raffles, however, was a...
View Article