Honoured guest Indonesian President Bapak Prabowo Subianto enters the Padang in Singapore, gracing the occasion of Singapore’s 60th National Day Parade!
Moving experience to be able to interview Bapak Gusti Ngurah Saputera (born 1930), at the Veterans’ Office in Denpasar, Bali, concerning his memories of the Revolutionary War against the Dutch (1945-49). Very few left from that generation who can share their memories.
In Kyoto for a few days. Anyone here keen to talk over coffee about history (modern or medieval), Singapore, Southeast Asia, geopolitics, chess, (or chess politics) pl message me!
Eagerly awaiting the second volume of Irene Ng's biography of S.Rajaratnam, extracts of which have just been published the Straits Times. Ng notes that Raja is the "principal author" of the Pledge, after his intervention (when two early drafts of the Pledge were surfaced to him
who drafted one of the two early versions sent to Raja) worked further on it,or whether others played a role, is unfortunately unknown.Also unknown is who was responsible for the versions in Malay, Chinese and Tamil.Were these simply arrived at by translating the final,[5]