by Kris Kong | Dec 13, 2017 | Book Reviews
Title: The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace; Authors: Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 264; Price: Rs 750 As India prepares to host the leaders of the 10 ASEAN nations for a commemorative summit next month, a new book...
by Kris Kong | Nov 15, 2017 | Media
WISE Words · 01: Kishore Mahbubani
by Kris Kong | Sep 23, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The election of Madam Halimah Yacob as the eighth President of Singapore offers all non-Malay Singapore citizens a unique learning moment. All of us need to ask ourselves a simple question: How much do we know about Malay culture and customs? The answer to this...
by Kris Kong | Sep 13, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
The global spread of democracy, a Western gift to the world, was meant to result in the election of liberal, pro-Western leaders. Instead, a wave of strongmen rulers has been elected, many of whom have clear non-Western identities. This list includes Shinzo Abe of...
by Kris Kong | Sep 9, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
When Singapore turned 50 in August 2015, I wrote a column for the Huffington Post to say that Singapore was the most successful nation in human history. Surprisingly, this column was not challenged. What I could not do in that column was to explain why Singapore was...