Beijing Olympics
Associate Professor John Davis said that the Olympics helped China introduce itself to the world again even though the problems it faces will not go…
By election debate in parliament
Assistant Professor Eugene Tan cautioned that we may risk sacrificing principles of representative democracy on the altar of expedience and efficacy.
Banking on neo-Confucian capitalism
Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of SMU Board of Trustees wrote that as East Asia emerges as a major economic region, it should create its own alternative…
There's light despite lowly finish
The six-member Singapore sailing team competing at the Beijing Olympics, which includes SMU undergraduate Koh Seng Leong, finished creditably in…
Singapore's Temasek doubles profit, fears contagion
Associate Professor Annie Koh commented that Temasek's move to expand into new markets made sense as the slowdown in the United States has made its…
Scholarships, an uneven playing field
With a laudable eight in 10 of students who made it to university last year coming from public housing roots, why are heartlanders under-represented…
"Them vs Us"
SMU Assistant Professor of Law Eugene Tan says that the government should stop calling new immigrants ?foreign talents?, making the locals feel…
School is only a prelude
SMU incoming student Eef Gerard Van Emmerik, now in his second year of national service, thought it was myopic of him to complain about stress back…
Can or not?
Assistant Professor of Law Eugene Tan comments on several issues relating to Singaporeans that could be reviewed and possibly changed, including…
Ban on political films to be eased
SMU law lecturer Eugene Tan welcomed the move as he felt the current rules were too quaint and too quixotic for the global city that we aspired to be.
