In The Press - Media Coverage 2010

Tensions Rise As China Launches Show of Force
China's air force this week is conducting a five-day exercise involving scores of aircraft and 12,000 soldiers. Dubbed "Vanguard 2010," it is the latest sign of China flexing its muscles amid rising military tensions with the United States.

3 Aug. 2010, The Hindu

No problem with India, says IAEA chief
SINGAPORE: International Atomic Energy Agency's Director General Yukiya Amano on Monday acknowledged that India was continuing to abide by its commitments under its 2008 safeguards accord with the IAEA.

3 Aug. 2010, The Nation

Drug companies face the realities of a new frontier
By Sumi Dhanarajan

3 Aug. 2010, The Straits Times

Nuclear plants ‘need not be far from urban areas’
Instead, ensure safety by containing risks of accidents: IAEA chief

2 Aug. 2010, Business Standard

Asian school beefs up Indian bureaucracy

1 Aug. 2010, The Sunday Times

When push comes to shove…
Experts and commuters weigh in on ways to ease overcrowding in trains

31 July 2010, The Business Times

China cities can achieve growth, liveability
Mah says they are fertile ground for innovations in sustainable living in view of China's market size and talent pool

30 July 2010, The Korea Herald

New frontier for global pharmaceutical companies
By Sumi Dhanarajan

28 July 2010, Spiegel Online International

The Dragon’s Embrace – China’s Soft Power Is a Threat to the West
China may have no intentions of using its growing military might, but that is of little comfort for Western countries. From the World Trade Organization to the United Nations, Beijing is happy to use its soft power to get what it wants -- and it is wrong-footing the West at every turn.

24 July 2010, The Straits Times

Inflation rises slowest for low earners
RISING prices, in the wake of Singapore's strong economic rebound, affected households across all income groups in the first six months of this year, according to figures released yesterday.

23 July 2010, Indian Express

Concessions to victory
by Kishore Mahbubani

23 July 2010, Business Standard

Huang Jing: Time for Asian G2
The simultaneous rise of China and India is phenomenal, but serious concerns also arise on the bilateral relationship. After all, the lingering border dispute, geopolitical mismatches, inevitable conflict of interests, and a huge trust deficit between the two nations could all trigger tensions and even confrontation, bringing about disastrous consequences to both countries and the entire region.

22 July 2010, The Business Times

RSP lends a hand with ‘good projects’
ONE of RSP Architects Planners & Engineers' projects in China's Shandong province is to turn the city of Yantai into 'a world-class tourist destination'.

21 July 2010, The Telegraph

Young and Loyal
If Harvard and Wharton had not been charmed by the Lalu Prasad of popular folklore a few years ago and had, instead, wanted to study how real change was possible within the government of India, they would have looked at a fascinating experiment in New Delhi called the ministry of overseas Indian affairs.

18 July 2010, The Straits Times

Robust recovery: Reading it right
by Tan Khee Giap

18 July 2010, The National Newspaper

US must blaze trail beyond fossil fuels
by Ann Florini

18 July 2010, The New York Times

Rethinking the Measure of Growth
by Wayne Arnold

17 July 2010, Irish Times

Asia plays new role as global power broker
WORLD VIEW: Growth in dynamic Asian region can help to avoid double-dip international recession, writes PAUL GILLESPIE

16 July 2010, China Daily

A fickle river and power of a good idea
by Leong Ching

Philanthropist Mo Ibrahim Outlines Steps for African Recovery:

20 Jul'10, The Straits Times , Singapore - Bringing good governance to Africa
17 Jul'10, Zaobao - Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Special Guest Mo Ibrahim: the lack of good governance led to the impoverishment of Africa
16 Jul'10, The Straits Times, Singapore - An Africa in progress can only look up

12 July 2010, Khaleej Times

Abandoning fossil fuels
by Ann Florini

12 July 2010, The Hindu

Call for China-India initiative for Pakistan stability

9 July 2010, The Strait Times

Key tasks to handle

9 July 2010, The Press Trust of India Limited

World's largest democracy should be part of UNSC: India

2 July 2010, BBC News

UK Foreign Policy | Limiting immigration | Britain's relations with the Vatican

1 July 2010, The Economist

Former LKY School Fellow Named ‘Chief Bail-Out Officer’
Klaus Regling, a former EU Fellow at the LKY School, has been named chief executive of the new, European Financial Stability Facility, the €440 billion special-purpose vehicle established to support ailing euro-zone countries. A full profile of Regling, a veteran economist, appears in the latest issue of The Economist.

1 July 2010, YaleGlobal Online

Seizing the Moment for Clean Energy
Critics have panned US President Barack Obama’s response to the BP oil spill – but for all the wrong reasons, writes Ann Florini, Director of Centre on Asia and Globalisation, in the latest edition of YaleGlobal Online. Obama’s surprising unilateralism misses a key opportunity to reassert global leadership. For the full article, click here.

1 July 2010, Al-Ahram

Copying development

1 July 2010, Project Syndicate

An American Oil Spill

30 June 2010,Yale Global Online

Seizing the Moment for Clean Energy

29 June 2010, The Huffington Post

Considering Water Diplomacy

28 June 2010, The Straits Times, Singapore

Pragmatic policy flows from solid basis

20 May 2010, The Times of India, India

Let The Market Work Its Magic
by Shreekant Gupta

6 May 2010, Zao Bao, Singapore

中国经济前景存在不稳定性

4 May 2010, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia

In the Indonesian Market, Buyer Beware
by Mika Purra

5 May 2010, NUS News, Singapore

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy hosts Asia Vision 21 conference

2 May 2010, The Sunday Times, Singapore

Istana visitor gets hug from First Lady

2 May 2010, Zao Bao, Singapore

总统府劳动节开放

20 Apr. 2010, The Jakarta Globe, Indonesia

Asia Watch: The Staggering Stupidity of Congress
Kishore Mahbubani is an unabashed Asia bull. The title of the former Singaporean diplomat’s 2008 book says it all: “The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.” The dynamism of China, India and Indonesia shows why it’s happening. West, look out!

19 Apr. 2010, BBC HARDtalk

How is next month's UK election being viewed abroad?
Stephen Sackur talks to three experienced political analysts from the USA, Asia and Europe about the British election. What will the outcome mean for Britain's place in the world?

18 Apr. 2010, The Sunday Times, Singapore

S'pore is tops for training of senior Chinese officials
Singapore is the top choice when it comes to selecting a place to train top Chinese government officials.

18 Apr. 2010, Zao Bao, Singapore

送干部到海外培训中国首选新加坡
中国派送领导干部往海外培训的目的地，以新加坡为首选，这不仅基于两国关系良好，也因为新加坡的发展经验对中国有“特殊借鉴作用”。

14 Apr. 2010, The Straits Times, Singapore

What are Singapore's core values?
By Kishore Mahbubani

13 Apr. 2010, The Straits Times, Singapore

Biggest threat to Asia

28 February 2010, Business Standard

Budget circus plays out on the idiot box

Coverage of Mr. Kofi Annan's Public Lecture on 26 Feb 2010:

27 Feb'10, The Straits Times, Singapore - Help Africa, and Asia will help itself: Kofi Annan
27 Feb'10, Business Times, Singapore - Kofi Annan to Asia: Help Africa succeed for mutual benefit
26 Feb'10, Channel newsasia.com - Ex-UN Secretary-General says citizen-centric govt vital for wealth creation
26 Feb'10, Forbes.com - How Asia And Africa Can Help Each Other
26 Feb'10, Afriquejet.com - Annan says Asia-Africa cooperation is key to global development
26 Feb'10, Earth Times - Kofi Annan calls for more responsible Asian investment in Africa

27 February 2010, The Star

Population target in doubt
The public housing crisis has revived the question whether Singapore, with only 700sq km of land, can continue to accommodate the current five million residents, let alone increase it by a further one-third.

26 February 2010, Time

Europe's Errors
By Kishore Mahbubani
Europe just doesn't get it. It does not get how irrelevant it is becoming to the rest of the world. And it does not get how relevant the rest of the world is becoming to its future. The world is changing rapidly. Europe continues to drift.

26 February 2010, The Straits Times, Singapore

Ex-UN chief calls on PM Lee
Visiting former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana yesterday.

25 February 2010, The Straits Times, Singapore

SM Goh hosts Kofi Annan
SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong hosted former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan to dinner at the Istana last night

16 January 2010, Livemint.com, The Wall Street Journal

Asian countries have the most to lose if the multilateral order breaks down
The former diplomat on the shift in the balance of power and the need for Asia to take charge of the global system

11 January 2010, IndianExpress.com

If Singapore can set up a world class institute of International Studies, then India can do much better
Kishore Mahbubani, renowned author, former diplomat, and currently Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, is of the opinion that India needs to set up more institutes of international studies. He also feels that it is important to train young talent rather than relying on retired diplomats to undertake scholarly works in the field of International Relations. During his visit to New Delhi, he spoke to RAVISH TIWARI.

7 December 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Tokyo Uni, LKY School to offer double degree
THE Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Graduate School of Public Policy (Graspp) at the University of Tokyo will jointly offer a double degree from July next year.

7 December 2009, The Business Times, Singapore

LKY School signs MOU with Tokyo uni
THE Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) School of Public Policy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy to launch a double degree partnership.

13 November 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Slowing the flow of foreign workers to S'pore
Imagine living in a Singapore where foreigners could exceed three million and form half the workforce by 2030. Can the flood be checked? Yes, said an economist not averse to slaughtering sacred cows. Professor Hui Weng Tat's prescription: lower growth targets; increase productivity; offer dual citizenship to retain local talent.

12 November 2009, The New York Times

End of Whose History?
By Kishore Mahbubani
SINGAPORE — The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall has just been celebrated. For many, that momentous event marked the so-called end of history and the final victory of the West.

November 2009, D+C, Tribune, Page 424-426

Overcoming a tragedy
By Eduardo Araral
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics was recently awarded to Elinor Ostrom, along with Oliver Williamson. This article examines Ostrom’s contribution to development theory and practice. She is the first woman to win the Economics Nobel.

22 October 2009, The Wall Street Journal

Book Review: "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age"
When Folly Is Forever
By Adam Keiper
Historians, accustomed to rummaging through document-stuffed archives, are now worrying about the future of the past.

8 October 2009, Inquirer.net, Philippine

COMMENTARY: What went wrong? Like sound of 1 hand clapping
By Raul Lejano, Chinie Canivel
MANILA, Philippines—It is a policy rule that hazards (floods, earthquakes) are natural, but disasters human. It is not about allocating blame.

19 September 2009, The New York Times, Asia Pacific

A Romance Writer Jabs at Singapore’s Patriarchs
IN a study published in Mar. titled “Who’s Afraid of Catherine Lim?” a political scientist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Kenneth Paul Tan, cast Ms. Lim’s duel with the government in Freudian terms.

16 September 2009, Bloomberg, Singapore

Mahbubani Says China Unwilling to Spark U.S. Trade War: Video

15 September 2009, BBC News

Singapore stimulus 'most intelligent in world'
The BBC's Mishal Hussein spoke to Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

9 September 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

The Republic of Common Sense
by Kishore Mahbubani
THE Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy celebrated its fifth anniversary last week. Fortunately, the school had a lot to celebrate. In less than five years, it has achieved global recognition. But why did it succeed?

7 September 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Kofi Annan and public discourse
THE appointment of former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan as a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy will help further Singapore's ambition to be a centre of contemporary scholarship.

4 September 2009, Tamil Murasu, Singapore

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3 September 2009, Business Times, Singapore

Safeguards in place even if PAP loses: MM

Singapore reserves, top posts protected by President
(SINGAPORE) There are many safeguards in place should the opposition manage to displace the People's Action Party at a future general election, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday evening.

3 September 2009, ZaoBao, pg. 10, Singapore

李光耀公共政策学院成立五周年晚宴

3 September 2009, ZaoBao, pg. 2, Singapore

李光耀公共政策学院首次以华文教硕士课 [Read Online]
全球金融危机让人们意识到光是研究自由市场的“无形的手”并不足够，同时了解各国政府行为的“有形的手”也同等重要。

李光耀公共政策学院为满足中国官员与企业高管的需求，将在明年三月开办首个纯粹以华文教学的公共行政与商业管理硕士学位课程（Master in Public Administration and Management，简称MPAM）。

3 September 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Treat young Chinese well [Read Online]
THE key to the relationship between China and the United States may lie right in the Americans' backyard, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Wednesday.

3 September 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Kofi Annan joins LKY school [Read Online]
FORMER United Nations chief Kofi Annan will be based at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy as a
professor from next February.

2 September 2009, Channel News Asia Online, Singapore

Political leaders cannot be trained, but must be found, says MM Lee [Read Online]
SINGAPORE: Political leaders cannot be trained, but must be found and be people with passion, says Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. And that's one reason why, unlike corporate leaders, they are so much harder to get.

Mr Lee was speaking on leadership transition and other issues in a wide-ranging dialogue session at the fifth anniversary of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

19 Aug. 2009, Daily News & Analysis, India

Move towards EET is good, but handle retirement savings with care
The draft direct taxes code unveiled earlier this month makes a beginning towards the EET (exempt-exempt-taxation) treatment of savings, including those relating to retirement. This is consistent with widespread international practices, particularly in the middle and high-income countries.

13 Aug. 2009, India Today, India

Power and impending glory
by Kishore Mahbubani
The American dream is over. The Indian dream is arriving. Am I exaggerating? Of course, I am. America will remain far more prosperous than India for decades to come (although many now believe that the Indian Gross National Product (GNP) will surpass the American GNP before 2050). Yet dreams are not about past or present realities. They are about hopes and aspirations for the future. And a big shift in world history has occurred with so few taking note of its implications. Many young Americans no longer believe that they will experience the same improvement in living standards that their parents did. By contrast, many young Indians believe that they will do much better than their parents.

9 Aug. 2009, The Sunday Times, England

Think Tank: Google must let us forget
In the spring of 2006, a trainee teacher and single mother called Stacy Snyder was summoned by Millersville University in Pennsylvania and told that, despite having passed all her course work and earned all her credits, she would not be awarded a teaching qualification. She was guilty of “behaviour unbecoming of a teacher”.

24 July 2009, Science Magazine

Sociology: Can We Reinvent the Internet? [Full text | Full article ]
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

23 July 2009, The Hindu, India

Doha: Lamy for “maxi-negotiations”
SINGAPORE: Director-General of World Trade Organisation Pascal Lamy has called for “maxi-negotiations” as the surest way of clinching an accord in the troubled Doha Round.

21 July 2009, Financial Times, Singapore

Asia keeps the west’s betrayed faith
Before the current economic crisis exploded, most Asian policymakers and intellectuals believed that when it came to the theory and practice of economic development, the west knew best. This conviction was justified. For two centuries or more, western economies had far outperformed their own.

14 July 2009, Freakonomics, The New York Times

Lesser of Two Evils?
Coal and nuclear power provide the vast majority of our electricity. Coal brings environmental and health hazards with it every step of the way, from mine to smoke stack. Nuclear energy, with all of its benefits, comes with its own risks (as ill-perceived as they may be). So which is the least bad solution? Seed magazine asked a panel of experts and came up with this interesting quorum.

11 July 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Busting 6 myths about water governance
by Seetharam Kallidaikurichi & Eduardo Araral
A RECENT conference held at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy mulled over how the performance of the water sector might be boosted.

July 2009, Vol. 9 No. 1, Innovation Magazine

Finding a New Green Protocol for the World
From the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Associate Professor Shreekant Gupta shares his opinions on the future after the Kyoto Protocol.

11 June 2009, Hindustan Times, Singapore

Nothing official about people
"I know how critical the issue of Pakistan is for India, having been affected by it since childhood. My mother, a Hindu Sindhi, had a close shave when she fled Pakistan during the Partition." - Kishore Muhbubani

5 June 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Gas network may remain a pipe dream
By Benjamin K. Sovacool
PRACTICALLY everybody attending a conference on energy security in South-east Asia, studying regional energy policy, or evaluating Asean's energy plans over the past five years will have heard of the TAGP.

5 June 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Beijing rejects calls to review deaths
BEIJING: China yesterday rejected calls for a reassessment of the 1989 Tiananmen protests, chastising the United States for demanding that it account for those killed in the June 4 crackdown.

4 June 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Legacy of June 4 leaves grounds for optimism
PROFESSOR Huang Jing's class of 17 students at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy swelled to more than 30 earlier this year on the day he taught about the June 4th incident.

3 June 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Moving world history in the right direction
By Kishore Mahbubani
IT IS unwise to underestimate the significance of the recent Indian elections. The Indian electorate decisively pushed world history in the right direction with the re-election of the Manmohan Singh- Sonia Gandhi partnership.

3 June 2009, 938 LIVE, Singapore

50 Years of Self-rule - Housing a Nation
In Asia, Singapore has often been cited as a successful example in the production of public housing for its residents. Through the Housing Development Board, more than 80 percent of almost 5 million Singaporeans today own a home.

20 May 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

The virtues of secularism
In some areas of life, there are no easy solutions. There may only be solutions that require vision, courage and wisdom to implement. Hence, we should not underestimate the challenges of preserving secularism in Singapore.

14 May 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

I Think, Therefore I Do
Pragmatism is celebrated today as a virtue. The ability to adapt to changing circumstances, to focus on achieving results and to compare options using cost-benefit analysis is valued over inflexible obedience to dogma.

15 Apr. 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Asia is opening up, slowly
THE seemingly opaque world of Asian governments is anything but that these days as several are trying to open up scrutiny, says Professor Ann Florini.

13 Mar. 2009, Business Times, Singapore

Call to beef up Asia's domestic demand
Asian economies need to strengthen domestic demand and regional cooperation to build up resilience against future economic shocks, according to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

10 Mar. 2009, Financial Times, Singapore

Fifty who will frame a way forward

50: Kishore Mahbubani, 60
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Though no outright proponent of superior “Asian values”, he says the west needs to cede ground in institutions such as the World Bank and IMF for Asia to play a more constructive role.

07 Jan. 2009, The Straits Times, Singapore

Infant death rate may rise by 10%
The global economic crisis may increase infant mortality and malnutrition rates by up to 10 per cent.

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