The GE 2011 Political Demise of Lee Kuan Yew: A Supreme.
For midway through the campaigning, when the PAP had already sensed an impending loss of the Aljunied GRC whom earlier MM had offended with his live and repent threat, PM had hurriedly called a press interview in which he gently, but firmly, dissociated himself from. A detailed analysis of the irony, substantiated with examples over more than four decades of Lee Kuan Yews leadership of Singapore will be instructive for understanding this unique personage.
Hong Kong ranked 70th in world for quality of living - South.
Hong Kong offers the best quality of living among cities in China, but falls behind main competitor Singapore and major Japanese centres, according to a survey. Hong Kong ranked 70th - one place higher than last year��.
Hong Kong minister Matthew Cheungs plan to get mums back to work just wont fly
Let me wrap my head round this. Our labour minister wants more housewives to re-enter the job market. This means launching a massive scheme to provide after-school care for their children running from 4pm to 9pm. Children so targeted cover both primary .
Lets give innocent Hong Kong shop owners a break after.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, never one known for his public relations smarts, may have misspoken when he urged people to shop in Mong Kok to make up for losses caused by the Occupy movement.. Lee Kuan Yew gave Singapore a republic, and the poetry came later.. We have failed to raise a generation who have a real sense of social responsibility.. All opinion about the protests in the media including in SCMP is as valid as the time they appeared.
Can we talk about the 2024 Olympics?
While weve all been busy obsessing over politics, this Olympics business has been chugging right along. Well know in the next month or so whether. ���So it doesnt make sense to present it to people in a detailed way. We are not at that level.
Jaded Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai Yiu-ting.
Having lived in an artificial cocoon (University) and planned for semesters with abundance of funding for the perfect ideals of the next generations, BenT must have finally realized the cold hard facts and the harsh realities are so different. prevalent at SCMP. Daniel Lee Oct 27th 2014 1:06pm. The rascal and provocateur Benny Tai Yiu-ting is looking at 20 years in jail. Enjoy your freedom while it last. When the time comes to face the music over your numerous criminal��.
Support for CY Leung means support for Beijing, says NPC official in rare.
Yesterdays gathering was a preparatory meeting for the annual session of the NPC and the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference, the nations top advisory body, in the capital in March. Emerging from the meeting, Cheng said: Chen told us.
One in five Hongkongers considering emigration - South.
Lee said the middle-roaders opinions would be crucial in the outcome of the electoral reforms. An earlier survey commissioned by the South China Morning Post found that 48 per cent of people said lawmakers should veto��.
Original Hong Kong Occupy plan veered off script | South.
Eight-hour queues on streets of Singapore as thousands wait to bow before Lee Kuan Yews coffin �� Pilot was locked.. Dr Ma Ngok, head of Chinese Universitys department of government and public administration, said the very nature of a mass movement made it difficult to proceed as planned. Without the. If you look at China unlike Hong Kong it has changed massively over the last 17 years and is no longer the same china as with Tianamen Square Massacre.
Occupy supporters and police clash as Hong Kong protests escalate
About 3,000 officers were posted in Admiralty, with a further 4,000 in Mong Kok, where protests have continued despite the clearance of the main protest zone last week. Describing the rally as posing an ���extremely high risk���, Senior Superintendent Kong .
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Lee Kuan Yew turns.
He led and forged a nation which today is admired worldwide for its prosperity, harmony and stability. In lifting an entire nation and improving countless lives of Singaporeans of several generations, Mr Lee Kuan Yew has left��.
Sense of loss over Lee Kuan Yew bridges Singapores generations
Those whom the South China Morning Post spoke to mostly had high regard for Lee, but a few wished for a more liberal Singapore in future, in keeping with its status as a global city. Vincent Tan, a Catholic born in the 1980s, said his feelings for Lee.
Remembering Lee Kuan Yew, the Founding Father of.
On 23 March 2015, Singapore fell into a grieving state as Lee Kuan Yew, widely regarded as the countrys founding father, passed away at the age of 91 at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH). The former prime. Posted on March 23, 2015 by Remember Singapore.. In his thirties, Lee Kuan Yew also learnt and mastered Mandarin and Hokkien in order to reach out to the masses in Singapore, much of it were made up of Chinese Singaporeans... Former Marina South Bus Stop.
Hong Kong needs democracy realists, not dreamers
We all know how it started. Does anyone know how its going to end? No. Occupy Central organisers who initiated the civil disobedience have become side acts. The students who turned the Occupy movement into an uprising wont end it unless their .
Generation gap hampers efforts to direct Occupy protests in.
Singapore mourns as founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91. Occupy Central co-founder Dr Chan Kin-man, who returned to his job at Chinese University last week, said he and fellow organisers considered an incremental and pragmatic approach in the fight for genuine universal suffrage acceptable as they were aware of political. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Generation gap and battle plan divide campaigners��.
Supporters urge Occupy protesters to unite amid mixed.
Supporters say leadership is needed as dispute over agenda threatens talks with officials; lawyers warn civil disobedience is no defence. Singapore mourns as founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91... BBC, SCMP, Guardian and other non-Chinese media and camera crews were to interview some of those deeply hurt by these movement - aint no revolution at all - spend the morning on the Mini-Bus to ride from Aberdeen to Western and tried to squeeze onto MTR from��.
Defiance and security cooperation likely to follow Paris terrorist attacks
The terrorist attacks that shook Paris fall under the category of unimaginable - because of their spectacular, yet unexpected quality. From piloting jetliners into iconic skyscrapers to massacring a roomful of popular cartoonists, these attacks push us.
Appeal court clears way for bailiffs to end Occupy protest in Mong Kok
The Court of Appeal has refused to hear a protesters appeal against an injunction which allows police to assist bailiffs in clearing the Mong Kok protest site and arrest people who obstruct them. High Court Chief Judge Andrew Cheung Kui-nung and Court.
Police fire tear gas and baton charge thousands of Occupy.
Lee Kuan Yew was ahead of the curve when he predicted Chinas emergence. Then, the Hong Kong public were largely spectators as officers battled militant South Korean protesters during a World Trade Organisation ministerial conference.. I support the Hong Kong peoples struggle AGAINST the havey-handed, anti-democratic Chinese government. China, hands off Hong Kong. If you push too hard you might just get 1989 all over again and all over China.
escalating violence - South China Morning Post
Singapore mourns as founding father Lee Kuan Yew dies at 91.. this SCMP is so biased, and pro-protest, defending people who defy court order, and even degrading people /taxi drivers who simply executed personal removal of barricade under approval by court order. i have not read 1 single phrase. The pan-democrats like Cardinal Zen, Emily Lau, Anson Chan, Benny Tai, Martin Lee etc. have been very well paid in the millions to be part of this insidious conspiracy.
In search of lost time
In the corporate world, a ���perennial time-scarcity problem��� afflicts executives all over the globe, and the matter has only grown more acute in recent years, say analysts at McKinsey, a consultancy firm. These feelings are especially profound among.
Sense of lawlessness spreading in Hong Kong says police commissioner
A sense of lawlessness is spreading in post-Occupy Hong Kong according to Police Commissioner Andy Tsang Wai-hung, despite the city recording its lowest annual crime rate since 1973. But Occupy Central co-founder Dr Chan Kin-man accused Tsang of .
Occupy Central Clearance: Full coverage of the days events
Good evening and welcome to scmp.coms live coverage of the police operation to clear the remaining Occupy sites, after 74 days of protest... I was very surprised that many in my generation dont support this. This is. When their turn came, Civic.
Dems may face long exile from coal country
���Southern West Virginia in particular has been devastated economically over this last six years in the war on coal,��� he said. ���Its very difficult for West Virginia Democrats to explain to the voters why their party maintains such an anti-coal agenda.
Putin Is Winning the Ukraine War on Three Fronts
Its loss is already a devastating morale blow to Kiev; video evidence has now emerged of rebels with the Somalia Battalion of the self-declared ���Donetsk Peoples Republic��� (DNR) torturing and humiliating Ukrainian POWS, fighters who were colloquially.
Original Hong Kong Occupy plan veered off script
Dr Ma Ngok, head of Chinese Universitys department of government and public administration, said the very nature of a mass movement made it difficult to proceed as planned.. SCMP.com SCMP Tablet Edition SCMP Mobile Edition 10-year news archive.
One country, two systems - South China Morning Post
Beijing will strictly comply with the Chinese constitution and the citys Basic Law in Hong Kong affairs, Premier Li Keqiang said at the start of annual meetings of the national legislature in Beijing yesterday. It is the first time.. Its probably difficult - maybe even very difficult - for todays younger generation (e.g. the OC Central students) to understand this fact. (Shame on. yet, over 200 protester been detained by their police in Ferguson.. Singapore had Lee Kuan Yew.
How Rand Paul trolls his rivals
Paul doesnt write the tweets himself: Roughly a half-dozen staffers have access to the account, and they post without getting sign-off from the the senator, according to Doug Stafford, Pauls senior political adviser. But he is deeply involved with.
Beijings rallying cry to Hong Kong ��� and 1.3 billion.
Police officers on guard in Mong Kok yesterday.Photo: Dickson Lee. So after a week of protesters occupying the citys busiest areas, the question over the weekend was not when will it end, but how will it end. As this goes to print, the.. Once upon a time, Lee Kuan Yew was ashamed of being of Chinese extract, when China became rich, he embark on a course of grovelling to China in total opposite of what he was like before, a stooge for Western capital forever��.
Teachers facing interference to instil patriotism in Hong.
Secondary school teachers are facing interference and pressure to inculcate a sense of patriotism in their pupils after the student-led Occupy Central civil disobedience movement for democracy, a veteran head of school says.. The purpose was to make the young generation more patriotic and less critical of political controversies, he wrote in a letter read out on RTHK radio show Letter to Hong Kong yesterday.. Singaporeans pay respects to Lee Kuan Yew.
Me generation must rethink their entitlement mindset
For 30 years, Asia has enjoyed dizzying levels of economic expansion. Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, the so-called Asian Tigers, adopted capital market polices to achieve their highest standards of individual and collective wealth ever.
Hong Kong needs democracy realists, not dreamers | South.
Laissez-faire Hong Kong could do with some leadership steel from a Lee Kuan Yew... Any change now would be unthinkable for China; (ii) the abandonment of its National Education plans does not equate to loss of sovereignty over Hong Kong, wonder why you would even compare the two; and (iii) Soviet Union was already... [4] HKs Average Living Area per person is the worst in the world: 161 sf in HK, 323 sf in Singapore, 370 sf in Taiwan, 800 sf in USA.