Dr. Thum Ping Tjin is Coordinator of Project Southeast Asia and a Research Associate at the Centre for Global History, University of Oxford. The views expressed here are his own. (Reuters file photo) ...

Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore’s other founders “were skillful in seizing their inheritance of geography and history and deploying it effectively.” Elderly women practice Tai Chi, a Chinese form of ...

The 700 square-kilometer country of Singapore is the smallest in Southeast Asia. It is located at the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula, just north of the Equator. Singapore was a Malay fishing village ...

IN THE REPUBLIC’S 59-year history, Singapore has had only three leaders. On May 15th it gets its fourth, when the prime minister of 20 years, Lee Hsien Loong—who is 72 and whose father, Lee Kuan Yew, ...