Tag: Singapore
Singapore is one such former British colony retaining the death penalty. Last week it executed man– Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national with learning difficulties– for attempting to smuggle 3 tablespoons of heroin in 2009, when he was aged 21. Nagaenthran was sentenced to death the following year, and spent more than a decade on death row before his execution.
Why is there an ever growing tension between Beijing and Washington? As they say, presidents change but U.S. foreign policy remains the same.
U.S. provocations in the East are likely to continue and only Beijing knows how much more it will take before there is an explosion.
Adam GARRIE One of the reasons that Singapore went from a post-colonial third world island to a socio-economic first world country was because under Lee Kuan Yew’s leadership, Singapore concentrated its development strategy on rapid economic growth, high quality education […]
