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At last, a PAP leader expressed empathy for the lived experience of minorities: Cherian George
After weeks of drift and despair, this was a speech we needed to hear. There is still some way for the establishment to go but then it wouldn’t be called the establishment if it were capable of radical quantum leaps, he said.
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Singapore Professor of Media Studies, Associate Dean for Research at Hong Kong Baptist University, Cherian George shared his thoughts on Lawrence Wong’s speech on racism (Jun 25).
LAWRENCE WONG ON RACE
After weeks of drift and despair, this was a speech we needed to hear. There is still some way for the establishment to go but then it wouldn’t be called the establishment if it were capable of radical quantum leaps.
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Singapore’s press overhaul will stay true to Lee Kuan Yew’s 50-year-old blueprint The SPH News Centre in Singapore. Photo: Handout
It is a fitting coincidence that the biggest shake-up of Singapore s news media industry in decades has been announced in the 50th anniversary month of the country s biggest ever crackdown on press freedom.
Thursday s news that Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) would hive off The Straits Times and other media outlets into a new not-for-profit company appears on the surface a radical, forward-thinking response to global journalism s chronic financial crisis. Look back at history, though, and it becomes clear this is also a rearguard action to preserve the ruling party s dominance over mainstream media.
The recent Cabinet reshuffle announcement has placed some prominence on Lawrence Wong s new appointment as finance minister, especially with the histories of former finance minister Heng Swee Keat as a past front-runner and former finance minister Lee Hsien Loong who subsequently became the Prime Minister.
Many observers are saying that the field is still open for 4G leadership, with 4G ministers Chan Chun Sing, Ong Ye Kung and Wong still in the running for Singapore s top political job.
The Straits Times editor-at-large Han Fook Kwang said that while Wong s appointment may have propelled him into the position of front-runner, it would take at least one to two years for Wong s colleagues to have a fuller measure of Wong, especially after his first Budget.
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LL SINGAPOREANS know the deal. They surrender a great deal of personal liberty and most rights to political expression. In return the party that has run Singapore since its founding, the People’s Action Party (
PAP), delivers progress and predictability. Sometimes, the social contract is made explicit, such as when a delinquent like Jolovan Wham mounts an unconscionable challenge to it. Mr Wham awaits sentencing for holding up a piece of cardboard with a smiley face on it “illegal assembly”, in the prosecutors’ eyes. For the most part, however, the contract is implicit, because the gentlefolk of Singapore know to mind their own business, while the authorities settle an intoxicating bliss on the clean, green city-state.