Honourable judge, we respectfully but vehemently beg to differ on the rape ruling
Does a crime of rape lasts only for 72 hours? After that limit does the crime just vanish into thin air?
How is Hong Kong strategising for 2047?
Hong Kong neoliberals made the same three mistakes that Singapore foreign affairs guru Kishore Mahbubani attributed to American elites on recent US-China rivalry
Muslims must ask really tough questions on what kind of Islam we are propagating
Malays are becoming more Muslim and less Malay. In fact for the most part it is not so much about Islamic values but the entire process of Arabisation
Who will be in China’s next leadership line-up?
The twice-in-a-decade National Congress of the Communist Party of China may be a year away, but party leaders are debating a new succession system
Asean needs double-track diplomacy to solve Myanmar crisis
Asean alone will be unable to bring about change but now such realization should make the leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore shift gear and change approach
Positioning Asean-Australia partnership for the future
Recent initiatives represent the largest ever increase in Australia’s development cooperation program with Asean and build on packages announced earlier
The accident involving nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in nearby waters
The paper says that it is not clear how many submarines and underwater drones the US has deployed in the region, but they could lead to tensions
Time for ‘middle power’ diplomacy
Philippines can clearly become a middle power in its own right, especially if we elect competent and strategically-minded leaders
Several questions over Melaka polls
With the Umno president overseas, former PM Najib Tun Razak, who postponed his Singapore trip to visit his daughter, is the de facto leader to lead the party in the state polls
The Hindu-Muslim flare-up in Bangladesh
There is little doubt that the Prime Minister, Begum Hasina Wajed, has countenanced the crisis with finesse, if not necessarily with firmness