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A senior academic from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), Professor Huang Jing, has been identified as “an agent of influence of a foreign country,” announced the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday (Aug 4). “The information was duly conveyed by that senior member of the LKYSPP to very senior public officials who were in a position to direct Singapore’s foreign policy. The clear intention was to use the information to cause the Singapore Government to change its foreign policy".

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean met Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, as well as Chinese State Councillor and Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun today during an official visit to China. They affirmed the “substantive and multi-faceted cooperation between Singapore and China” and agreed to strengthen the relationship between Singapore and the PRC, according to an MFA statement. This year marks the 25th year of Singapore-PRC diplomatic relations.

I am beginning to feel despondent about Singapore, the country that gave me so many opportunities to build my home, educate my children and lead a safe and secure life. But in the last few years I am seeing a different Singapore, one that moves clumsily from one error to another with alarming regularity. The system is creaking, even cracking. The journey down the slippery slope started in 2008 when the country’s most wanted man, terrorist Mas Selamat, slipped out of a detention centre in the simplest of ways – by jumping out of a toilet window.