by Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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 Kishore Mahbubani | 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...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Nov 22, 2014 | Articles, By Kishore Mahbubani
Asia will experience a new golden era of peace and prosperity over the next 10 years. The export-led growth model of the past will no longer work for the major Asian economies. Hence, we are unlikely to see a return to double-digit growth. If the major Asian...
