by Kris Kong | Feb 14, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
Two contradictory sentences accurately describe my working life. First, I have not worked a single day in my life. Second, I have worked relatively long hours per week, since I often “work” seven days a week. How do I reconcile this contradiction? The...
by Kris Kong | Jan 31, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
In a 1961 address to the UN, President John F Kennedy stated “Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable.”1 Although he was referring to the hydrogen bomb, the future of human wellbeing and security hangs in...
by Kris Kong | Jan 11, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is truly a great pleasure for me to finally visit Timor-Leste. As I was President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) when Timor-Leste became independent on May 20, 2002, I have always felt a special bond with...
by Kris Kong | Jan 10, 2015 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
WHEN I was a student studying in the Bukit Timah campus of what is now the National University of Singapore in the late 1960s, if anyone had approached me and asked me to become a bone marrow donor, I would have politely demurred. Why? My pain threshold was not very...
by Kris Kong | Dec 19, 2014 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
Can ten countries with different cultures, traditions, languages, political systems, and levels of economic development act in concert to expand their collective potential? That is the question with which the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been...
by Kris Kong | Dec 13, 2014 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
Now that I have reached the final column of my Big Idea series for 2014, I am happy to summarise the core idea underlying all the Big Ideas columns I have written this year. It can be captured in two words: “Love Singapore”. If we can practise this with...
