by Kishore Mahbubani | Jun 4, 2017 | Articles
It is a great pleasure and honor for me to speak to you today, 130 years after my great-grandmother Siauw Mah Li was, according to Miss Sophia Blackmore, “brought to me by her father in 1887” from Medan, Sumatra, to become the first Chinese girl to study in our...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Jun 2, 2017 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is a former diplomat from Singapore and is currently dean and professor of public policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School at the National University of Singapore. He spoke to the The WorldPost from Singapore in a wide-ranging interview about globalization,...
by Kishore Mahbubani | May 30, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Few countries can match the scale and speed of institutional reforms in Kazakhstan. In the last four years, we have seen the roll out of the Kazakhstan 2050 strategy, the Five Institutional Reforms, anti-corruption measures and the recent Constitutional reforms and...
by Kishore Mahbubani | May 13, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Is the Singaporean mind Eastern or Western? This is obviously an existential question that Singapore has to grapple with. Yet there is amazingly little discussion of it. The big danger that Singapore faces is that if the Singaporean mind remains primarily Westernised,...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Apr 25, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is a former Singaporean diplomat who served twice as ambassador to the United Nations. Currently, he is the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of “The Great Convergence: Asia,...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Apr 15, 2017 | By Kishore Mahbubani
I am in love again. Yes, I have found a new love. When I was young and dreamt of travels overseas, I had no doubt in my mind where I wanted to go if I could ever afford it. I would take off to London and Paris, New York and San Francisco. All four cities were great...
