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Simon Tay Archive
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Should SEA Think Nuclear?
Even as governments want to move ahead, many questions remain to be answered Published: TODAY, 30 Apr 2010 Following the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gave assurances that even as the Republic moves towards nuclear energy, its feasibility will first be studied. It is not only Singapore that is thinking about [...] -
The changing state of US-Asia ties
The Straits Times, THINK TANK, 24 Mar 2010 UNITED States President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone his visit to Indonesia and Australia last week was understandable. The health-care Bill, a centrepiece in his legislative agenda, was at a critical juncture and domestic priorities trump international visits. Moreover, the President had visited Asia less than six months [...] -
G-20: Gulliver and Lilliputians?
BY SIMON TAY - CRISES provoke changes. The initiative to bring together the world's 20 largest economies last November was one change the global economic crisis instigated. The Group of 20 (G-20) summit meeting in September in Pittsburgh was only its third. But the G-20 has already emerged as the key grouping in the global crisis. -
United by disaster
There is no simple, single or immediate solution to the haze The week the earthquake hit Padang, I was in Kuala Lumpur for a dialogue about the regional haze. Should we be criticising Indonesia for the fires, someone asked, when the country had just suffered such tragedy? Does the haze pollution seem inconsequential? Does Indonesia have the [...]
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