democracy

Clearly, democracy is not the silver bullet, as promoted by liberal Westerners!

Malaysians are fond of complaining about everything that is wrong in their lives.

In the real world, there is a whole range of interpretations and degrees of democracy in practice.

This gamification is not necessarily bad.

SINGAPORE (Aug 12): Political reforms in Hong Kong, held up by endless debate, have become an urgent necessity. What is required is a democratic system that will be acceptable to a significant portion of the Hong Kong population, even if it leaves a sizea

SINGAPORE (Aug 12): Political reforms in Hong Kong, held up by endless debate, have become an urgent necessity. What is required is a democratic system that will be acceptable to a significant portion of the Hong Kong population, even if it leaves a sizea

NEW YORK (July 26): How did the world’s two most venerable and influential democracies – the United Kingdom and the United States – end up with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at the helm? Trump is not wrong to call Johnson the “Britain Trump” (s

(June 18): “What have been the really major advances of the past 20 years?” is one of the most common debated questions in my circles. The smartphone is probably nominated most often, while Google, Facebook and fracking have their advocates too. Yet w

SINGAPORE (May 14): Words cannot begin to describe how we feel, sitting here, writing this article with tears in our eyes and hope in our hearts. We had our regular piece all laid out and ready to go. But how could we not write about this incredible, unbe

BANGKOK (Sept 28): Thailand’s military government is looking to start construction of projects under a 1.5 trillion baht ($61.2 billion) investment plan before the country’s possible return to democracy late next year.