Eugene K B Tan

With Singapore at a “critical juncture” and the old playbook no longer sufficient, significant change is in the air.

In a chaotic world, Singapore doubles down on being a safe harbour

The president’s address to Parliament presented a sombre assessment of external threats, but his core message was a return to the nation’s...

Generic photos of families with young children. For stories related to govt schemes and grants to help young families.
COMMENTARY

Rallying the family as the cornerstone of the refreshed Singaporean dream

While the country has to accept its low fertility rate and reshape its gender norms, a purposeful, robust immigration policy also has...

People walking towards the Jubilee Bridge. All societies are governed by social compacts, whether implicit or explicit. In articulating the relationship between the state and the people, a social compact is, in essence, the substance of state-society relations.
COMMENTARY

Future of Singapore’s social compact rests on the shoulders of the people

The government cannot breathe life into a social compact, it is the people who do when they believe and are committed to...

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong (right, seated next to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong) will be promoted to become Deputy Prime Minister on June 13, 2022.

A workmanlike Cabinet reshuffle focusing on immediate priorities

It is not surprising that there was no comprehensive reshuffle this time when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the latest set...