Singapore Correspondent
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Singapore Correspondent
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Author : Leon Comber
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2011-10-15
Singapore Correspondent written by Leon Comber and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-15 with History categories.
Singapore Correspondent is a collection of eye-witness dispatches, sent from Singapore to London, of five years of Singapore’s colourful political past. They cover a period of living turbulently and sometimes dangerously too. This was a time in the mid-1950s and early-1960s when Singapore was emerging from British colonial rule and moving forward to self-government and independence. Many of the early struggles of the People’s Action Party (PAP) are described, as the focus is on the political struggle taking place in which the PAP played a major part. Many important events which have long been forgotten are brought to life by the writer, who lived through them in Singapore (and wished it well), though he was viewing Singapore through “outside eyes”, and did not have any political affiliation. In this sense, they are fresh, and not written with any political slant, and they can be read by anyone who enjoys a good story, and sometimes a wry smile too. But at the same time they are part of Singapore’s contemporary history and should not be forgotten among all the more politically slanted accounts that are now appearing. These dispatches prove that political history need not be dull, and indeed it can sometimes be entertaining and lively if Singaporeans want to learn something about the beginnings of the present-day Republic of Singapore
Inside Story
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Author : Peter Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2010
Inside Story written by Peter Lloyd and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The much-anticipated and extraordinarily compelling account of Peter Lloyd's very public fall from grace on drug charges in Singapore.
Lion City
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Author : Jeevan Vasagar
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-03-01
Lion City written by Jeevan Vasagar and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-01 with History categories.
A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its founding premier, to take a small island of diverse ethnic groups with a fragile economy and hostile neighbours and meld it into Asia's first globalised city. Lion City examines the different faces of Singaporean life - from education and health to art, politics and demographic challenges - and reveals how in just half a century, Lee forged a country with a buoyant economy and distinctive identity. It explores the darker side of how this was achieved too; through authoritarian control that led to it being dubbed 'Disneyland with the death penalty'. Jeevan Vasagar, former Singapore correspondent for the Financial Times, masterfully takes us through the intricate history, present and future of this unique diamond-shaped island one degree north of the equator, where new and old have remained connected. Lion City is a personal, insightful and definitive guide to the city, and how its extraordinary rise is shaping East Asia and the rest of the world.
Reluctant Editor The Singapore Media As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Veteran Newspaper Journalist
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Author : PN Balji
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Reluctant Editor The Singapore Media As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Veteran Newspaper Journalist written by PN Balji and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
PN Balji is a veteran journalist with more than 40 years’ experience in Singapore journalism and has worked in five newspapers, three of them as Editor. His experience spans print, broadcast and digital journalism. He is one of Singapore’s most well-known media personalities and has provided communications advisory services to both public and private sector organisations in Singapore, including government ministries, statutory boards and tertiary institutions.
Completing The Singapore Story
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Completing The Singapore Story written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Conversations With Lee Kuan Yew
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Author : Tom Plate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Conversations With Lee Kuan Yew written by Tom Plate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Lee, Kuan Yew categories.
Political genius is never without controversy, or without mystery. This is what makes it so interesting and so rare. Is Lee Kuan Yew the feral, authoritarian figure that Western critics claim? Or a stoic pioneer in new approaches to developing a nation--uncorrupt, modern, almost scientific?American journalist Tom Plate first interviewed the founder of modern Singapore in 1996 in a continuing back-and-forth with LKY that led to the summer of 2009, when the former prime minister agreed to sit down for two days of unprecedentedly informal but intense conversations that led to this special book. This new edition includes fascinating excerpts from prior interviews, as well as the author's assessment of the man who goes down in history as the world's longest-serving prime minister--and as one of the most unforgettable political figures of modern times. "You have done a superb job of capturing the many facets of this extraordinary man...." - Dr Henry A. Kissinger on Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew
Conversations With Lee Kuan Yew
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Author : Tom Plate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Conversations With Lee Kuan Yew written by Tom Plate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Prime ministers categories.
"Imagine the delight and challenge of entering into a one-on-one political and personal conversation with the founding father of modern Singapore. This is exactly the timely treat that awaits you in CITIZEN SINGAPORE. The first in the Giants of Asia series, this succinct, penetrating, richly detailed and candid book on Lee Kuan Yew represents the Asian legend's first extended conversation with a Western journalist. The result is often surprising, sometimes startling, occasionally humorous - and never, ever dull. Enter into the mind of this controversial but internationally respected political leader and pioneer, through the eyes and ears of one of America's leading journalists on Asia."--publisher.
I Saw Too Much
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Author : Lorraine Stumm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
I Saw Too Much written by Lorraine Stumm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with War correspondents categories.
At the age of 25, Lorraine Stumm went to Singapore to join her airman husband and obtained a job on the Malaya Tribune as a news reporter. War had been declared and Singapore was deemed impregnable. On the outbreak of war with Japan, she was asked by the London Daily Mirror to cover the war in the Pacific for them. Evacuated from Singapore just before it fell to the Japanese, she joined General MacArthur's headquarters and from 1941 until the surrender of Japan, she reported the war as Australia's first accredited woman war correspondent. Despite the hard conditions and discriminations from some male colleagues, she kept the news flowing. In this absorbing personal account, she writes in the same style as she reported the events and conditions she experienced and the people she met during those tumultuous years of World War II.
The Beijing Bureau
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Author : Trevor Watson
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-19
The Beijing Bureau written by Trevor Watson and has been published by Hardie Grant Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays revealing the insights of twenty-five Australian foreign correspondents into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world community. China dominates the headlines across the world as the country takes for itself a global role. As governments, businesses and individuals increasingly rely on news reports to make decisions, The Beijing Bureau brings together Australia’s most acclaimed journalists to share their hard-won knowledge of China and stories of life as a correspondent: including Mike Smith, Stan Grant, Stephen McDonell, Rowan Callick and Richard McGregor, reporting for international news outlets like the ABC, The New York Times, the BBC, CNN and more. Vital political and trading relationships are changing – China is flexing its muscles internationally, through the Belt and Road Initiative and trading relationships, through Wolf Warrior diplomacy, through the control of the diaspora and militarily. At home in China, the country is intensifying its hold and extending patriotism; at the same time, Chinese people are experiencing prosperity unrivalled in their history. With essays that cover a range of subjects and written by journalists who have worked and lived in China, The Beijing Bureau provides readers with a thoughtful perspective of this powerful nation.
Singapore Burning
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Author : Colin Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-05-04
Singapore Burning written by Colin Smith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-04 with History categories.
Churchill's description of the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942, after Lt-Gen Percival's surrender led to over 100,000 British, Australian and Indian troops falling into the hands of the Japanese, was no wartime exaggeration. The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture and death for thousands of allied men and women. With much new material from British, Australian, Indian and Japanese sources, Colin Smith has woven together the full and terrifying story of the fall of Singapore and its aftermath. Here, alongside cowardice and incompetence, are forgotten acts of enormous heroism; treachery yet heart-rending loyalty; Japanese compassion as well as brutality from the bravest and most capricious enemy the British ever had to face.