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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Liberal arts college: Great … but not for everyone
Singapore's main newspaper, The Straits Times, today reports that when a local girl with excellent high school results chose to enrol in Carleton College, her friends were surprised she did not choose a big-name university. But she is glad she … Continue reading
Posted in World Today Tagged america, calcutta, kolkata, liberal arts college, singapore, straits times, wikipedia Comments Off
Love is… a college course in Singapore
Young Singaporeans are being taught how to fall in love, get a date, and keep the relationship going. The course is being taught in two of Singapore's five polytechnics, reports the New York Times today. The love lessons are part … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Tagged babies, government, love, matchmaking, new york times, polytechnic, population, singapore, social engineering Comments Off
The New York Times and the Straits Times
Will the Internet drive newspapers out of business? It looks like newspapers can flourish only where the Internet is not widely used. So the New York Times is suffering while the Straits Times is flourishing in Singapore where there are … Continue reading
Posted in Media Tagged internet, new york post, new york times, singapore, singapore press holdings, straits times Comments Off
Doom and gloom in Singapore
Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) deputy chairman Tony Tan got the George Soros/Warren Buffet treatment from the international media yesterday. He was quoted everywhere from the BBC to CNN for his dire forecast. `We could be facing a recession … Continue reading
Posted in World Today Tagged GIC, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, recession, singapore, temasek holdings, tony tan Comments Off
Angus Ross Prize: The bare facts
Congratulations to the young Singaporean lady who won the Angus Ross Prize for English and the three runners-up, also from Singapore, who were so good a spokesman for the examiners in Britain said it was hard to separate them. "Singaporeans … Continue reading
UAE going nuclear, reports Abu Dhabi’s first English newspaper
Holy moly! Another nuclear power coming up in the Gulf! Oil-rich United Arab Emirates says it has no choice because it is facing a shortfall in electricity and likely to run short of natural gas. So says Abu Dhabi's first … Continue reading
Murdoch the total media man
The New York Times is my favourite newspaper but now it has to reckon with the canniest media man in the world. Rupert Murdoch is a genius. Some of his properties may be awful, for example, the Sun and Fox, … Continue reading
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam: Not going gently into that good night
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away, said General Douglas MacArthur in his address to the Congress in April 1951 after his dismissal as UN forces commander in chief in Korea. But the highly-decorated American general, who earlier helped … Continue reading
Muslims who saw no difference with Hindus
It's possible to be a Muslim and believe all religions are equal. Take this poem, for instance: The Hindu says, "I am superior";The Musalman says I.Two halves of a grain of mung they are;Which, then, is greater than the other?Don't … Continue reading
