While it makes eminent sense for Singapore as a sovereign state not to take sides in the escalating geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States, this should not mean its citizens must suspend their faculties for critical thinking and not discern fact from fabrication.
It is not an idle pursuit to try and form an informed judgment about which of the two big powers poses the greater threat to peace and stability in this region. Is the US really out to help defend freedom of navigation in this region and a rules-based international order against an increasingly encroaching China - or is that just a ruse to contain the latter s rise and maintain America s global hegemony?
Barakat is a must-see South African film
Stalwart of South African screens Vinette Ebrahim plays Aisha Davids, a widow of two years who is preparing to tell her four sons she wants to remarry. Barakat plays out over the days before Eid-ul-Fitr, also affectionately known as
Labarang in Cape Town. The opening scenes were surreal to me. I have lived in the area Barakat was shot in for most of my later childhood years, and still live here. I sat in awe seeing my childhood park and a famous tikka shop in the frames.
Aisha is apprehensive about the announcement, as her fiance is a non-Muslim man- Dr Albertus “Bertie” Meyer (Leslie Fong). Aisha and Bertie are so plausible as an older couple finding love again with each other; you really do believe their courtship and subsequent engagement.
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Singapore Singapore today can’t be compared to ancient Greece, according to Singapore’s Ambassador to Greece, Mr Simon Tay.
He rebutted former Straits Times editor Leslie Fong’s Greek-themed explanation for public unhappiness over the Government’s recent handling of Covid-19.
Mr Fong, in his “thymos” article published in The Straits Times on May 20, referring to ancient Greece and Rome, said there was a need for people to speak up.
Mr Tay countered society would do well to avoid strife in these trying times.
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Quite a few have sent me the commentary by Leslie Fong about the mood in Singapore today as well as his use of the word …
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