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 | Dec 1, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Another day, another forum of global leaders in sharp business suits at a five-star hotel. But I spot the person I have come to interview in a second — he’s the only one not wearing a jacket. “I left the jacket in my friend’s car when we met for...
by Kishore Mahbubani | Nov 28, 2014 | About Kishore Mahbubani
President Ma Ying-jeou said Nov. 27 that the government is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to secure Taiwan’s participation in trade blocs such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. Taiwan is embracing...
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...
