Shashi Jayakumar

Exec Director, SJK Geostrategic Advisory. Ex-Head,Centre of Excellence for National Security/Exec Coordinator Future Issues/Tech,RSIS 🇸🇬.Adj Fellow, CSIS🇺🇸

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Play chess. Not too much. Mainly as White.

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I hope they got the right guy.

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Honoured guest Indonesian President Bapak Prabowo Subianto enters the Padang in Singapore, gracing the occasion of Singapore’s 60th National Day Parade!

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@GlHindu halo, saya ingin memeriksa - dari mana foto ini berasal? Terima kasih

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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.

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Apologies to anyone offended by the incoherent script. ChatGPT is still not good at this.

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Happy Year of the Snake.

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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!

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@AntigoneJournal @FoundnAntiquity What an incredible find. Congratulations.

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Editing books is hard. I’ve decided after my latest to retire from editing books. I’ll simply write them. Easier.

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agreed, English version? Or is the story more complicated? We will not know, it seems, unless there are fresh discoveries. [6]

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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

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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]