The end is always the beginning! I tend to agree. You finish a chapter, you start another; you finish a book, you start another. ...

This might not be the most politically correct time to talk of underpaid ministers, particularly since the majority of them do not even deserve a seat in any Cabinet. ...

This July marks the 10th anniversary of East Asia’s financial crisis. In July 1997, the Thai Baht plummeted. Soon after, financial panic spread to Indonesia and Korea, then to Malaysia....

They have been a very difficult and trying two weeks for the Prime Minister. ...

14 July 1989 is not all that long ago. On that day, a Public Service Reform Commission, which had been set up a year earlier “to examine the organisation of the public...

Summer does not seem an appropriate time to bring up the subject of the heavy tax on kerosene and the expense incurred to heat homes in winter. Fiscal changes need to be planned now if they are to be included in the next budget...

It is frustrating to realise how much precious land and good countryside we have lost and continue to lose to the privileged living among us, but how can one adequately...

President Bush sent a powerful message when he went to Washington DC’s Islamic Centre last month, exactly 50 years after Dwight ...

The new hospital has opened to great fanfare, and people are justly astonished at the state-of-the-art facilities. It’s a great pity that while the hospital ...

One needs a licence to drive. One has to attend driving lessons, learn traffic regulations and pass a test; only then one is licensed to drive. ...