Name: Government in Business - Friend Or Foe? Finding Entry & Exit Points◎Lim Hwee Hua
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Government in Business - Friend Or Foe? Finding Entry & Exit Points◎Lim Hwee Hua

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Former Member of Singapore’s Parliament and top civil servant Lim Hwee Hua has used her active role in this perennial issue to show just how complex the arguments can be.

She answers a list of recurring questions, dealing with the why, when, what and wherefore which public officials, managers of state-owned enterprises and businessmen will find useful when formulating policies, or in their dealings with one another.

The numerous examples she cites from all over the world, of governments’ dreams and nightmares, illustrate factors peculiar to particular situations, but all raise degees of risk best resolved with honesty, particularly with regard to who benefits the most from a decision to get in or out. As Lim explains, the answer can sometimes come as a shock.

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Malaysia & Singapore: The Land Reclamation Case◎Cheong Koon Hean, Tommy Koh, Lionel Yee

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This book tells the story of Singapore’s first experience of defending its legal rights
before an international tribunal, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
(ITLOS).

The authors, who were part of the multidisciplinary and multi-agency team tasked
with presenting Singapore’s case at ITLOS, recount the facts of the reclamation
dispute and the ITLOS proceedings culminating in a pragmatic outcome, one that
paves the way for future cases of this nature to be resolved in a similar way. This
book would be of interest to students and readers of international relations,
international law and the peaceful settlement of disputes.

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Close Watch : A Nation's Resolve To Secure Singapore◎Ben Nadarajan

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Close Watch documents Singapore's efforts in countering the threat of terrorism since the country was stunned by the arrests of several Jemaah Islamiyah members here following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States.

This book details what goes on behind the scenes as the authorities endeavour to keep the country safe from terrorist attacks. The whole-of government approach to the threat is augmented by contributions from a cross-section of society, from the private sector to religious organisations and members of the public. Together, their collective vigilance is a testimony to the whole-of-nation effort in keeping our home safe.

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Can Singapore Survive? (New Updated Version)◎Kishore Mahbubani

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Mr Lee Kuan Yew once famously said “when I project myself forward 100 years for Singapore, I cannot tell you that it will exist.” As a small island city-state in what has been hitherto a turbulent region, the fundamental question of “Can Singapore Survive?” will remain an eternal dilemma for Singapore.

This is why this revised and updated edition of Kishore Mahbubani’s 2015 collection of essays is as relevant as ever. The issues addressed in the first edition remain of concern – water, transportation, carbon emissions, education, economic development, globalisation, inequality, uncertainty.

This edition covers these topics and also discusses more recent developments in 16 new essays and a new preface. Indeed, since this first edition appeared in 2015, Singapore has experienced major challenges: the passing away of Mr Lee Kuan Yew; the major Covid-19 shock; the turbulence in neighbouring countries; the rising US-China geopolitical contest.

However, the biggest danger Singapore faces is complacency. One key goal of this book is to encourage the development of such a culture of constant reflection and self-examination.

For young Singaporeans who never experienced third-world Singapore or direct contact with the great founding fathers of Singapore, these essays may provide a glimpse of the hard-headed thinking that also explains Singapore’s exceptional success over the years.

About the Author

Kishore Mahbubani has been the dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore since August 2004. Before that, in his distinguished 33-year career as a diplomat, he served twice as ambassador to the UN. He has published a vast array of articles in leading global journals and newspapers, such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Financial Times, as well as four books: Can Asians Think, Beyond the Age of Innocence, The New Asian Hemisphere and The Great Convergence. He was listed by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 global thinkers in 2010 and 2011; and by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 global thinkers for 2014.

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America: A Singapore Perspective◎Tommy Koh, Saljit Singh (Editors)

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The United States of America is the largest investor in Singapore. And in 2019, it channelled more resources into the city state than what it put into both China and Japan.

That year, the value of US direct investments in Singapore was US$288 billion, or
about 4.8 per cent of US direct investments abroad. This sum exceeded the combined
value of those in China (US$116.2 billion) and Japan (US$131.8 billion), based on
data from the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the US Bureau
of Economic Analysis.

This illustrates the economic significance of the US to Singapore. Beyond that, the
US is also a very important partner of Singapore in security, education and culture.

And so, Singaporeans should learn more about the superpower, thought Professor
Tommy Koh, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large who had served as its Ambassador
to the United States, and Mr Daljit Singh, Visiting Senior Fellow at the ISEAS–Yusof
Ishak Institute.

They gathered 27 other writers with a good understanding of America to pen a
collection of 29 essays, America: A Singapore Perspective.

The compendium reveals insights into the various aspects of the US: its governing,
election and political systems; business and economy; defence and foreign policy;
as well as culture and culture wars.

It includes a foreword written by Ambassador-at-Large Chan Heng Chee, who had
also been Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States.

The contributors include other well-known names: Ambassador-at-Large and former
Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ong Keng
Yong; former Permanent Secretary of Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bilahari
Kausikan; former Nominated Member of Parliament and chairman of the Singapore
Institute of International Affairs Simon Tay; Dr Chua Beng Huat, Professor in the
Department of Sociology of the National University of Singapore; as well as authors
and former journalists Gretchen Liu and Koh Buck Song.

Several journalists of The Straits Times — Vikram Khanna, Chua Mui Hoong, Lydia Lim,
Jeremy Au Yong, Nirmal Ghosh, Charissa Yong and Audrey Tan — also contributed
essays to the book.

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Men in White◎Sonny Yap, Leong Weng Kam, Richard Lim (English)

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Men In White is the inside story of one of the world’s most successful political parties. Narrated in three parts, it is oral history spun in a journalistic mode and spiced unapologetically with anecdotes, quotes and human interest to breathe life into past events.

Three writers from The Straits Times backed by four researchers conducted some 300 interviews in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and China. The result is a dramatic account of the PAP – warts, blemishes and all – and of the pivotal moments in its history which changed the course of Singapore forever.

PART ONE tells how a Cambridge-educated lawyer and his anglicised associates collaborated with radical Chinese-speaking trade unionists to drive out the British colonialists and how they fought each other to the bitter end.

PART TWO captures the agonies of leadership renewal and charts the ascent of Goh Chok Tong who succeeded Lee as the second prime minister. It ends with Lee Hsien Loong taking over from Goh in 2004 and leading the party to victory in the 2006 polls.

PART THREE wraps up the PAP story by delving into the key principles that characterise Singapore governance and concludes with the intriguing poser: Will PAP outlive LKY?

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Lee Kuan Yew: A Life In Pictures◎The Straits Times Team (Editors)

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This book tells the story of the man who transformed an improbable country into the thriving metropolis it is now. Selected from over 35,000 photographs from a wide range of sources, including Lee’s personal albums, it also captures private and loving moments between Lee and his wife and life-long partner Kwa Geok Choo, and the family they raised together. This pictorial is both a visual record and a celebration of his remarkable story.

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Proudly Singaporean◎Alain Vandenborre

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Proudly Singaporean is Alain Vandenborre's powerful and thought-provoking review of the many challenges facing Singapore today, and a moving account of why he chose to become a Singapore citizen. An entrepreneur and the Executive Director and Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, Vandenborre has over 20 years of business and senior management experience, and he brings insight, hope and warmth to his stirring vision for the country.

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