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Goh Keng Swee

A Public Career Remembered

By: Barry Desker,Chong Guan,Chong Guan Kwa

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Goh Keng Swee

A Public Career Remembered

By: Barry Desker,Chong Guan,Chong Guan Kwa

Goh held: social welfare; political and constitutional evolution; development economics and finance; the armed forces and defence industry; the education system, from schools through higher education to the research institutes; Chinese studies, from Confucianism to 'China watching'; and cultural development, with special emphasis on the creation of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy of Public Service will be read by present and future generations of public servants, by Singaporeans in general, and by all students and laypersons with an interest in the modern history of Singapore - social, economic, political, military, and cultural - to which a characteristically simple and frugal Dr. Goh contributed both decisively and unreservedly.

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World Scientific

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ISBN 10

9814291390

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9789814291392

Goh Keng Swee

A Legacy of Public Service

By: Emrys Chew,Chong Guan Kwa

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Goh Keng Swee

A Legacy of Public Service

By: Emrys Chew,Chong Guan Kwa

Goh's thinking patriotism, fiscal prudence, strategic pragmatism, and creative imagination at work - technocracy at its finest - which could be of immediate, practical benefit to a wider 'nation of technocrats'. Further illumination comes from the insights of those contributors who had worked with the former Deputy Prime Minister and knew him personally. For a half-century that witnessed key turning points and phases of development in Singapore's transformation from colonial port city to independent global city, Dr. Goh played a leading role in the crafting and conduct of public policy, as with the creation of public institutions, which made the difference between survival and success. The organization of this volume reflects both a thematic approach and a chronological arrangement of material, the focus and the order of chapters corresponding to the historical sequence of public offices that Dr.

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348

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World Scientific

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9814390763

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9789814390767

S Rajaratnam On Singapore: From Ideas To Reality

By: Chong Guan Kwa

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S Rajaratnam On Singapore: From Ideas To Reality

By: Chong Guan Kwa

This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the country's first foreign minister, he was pivotal in conceptualising and implementing its foreign policy. Present at the birth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he was also instrumental in ensuring a constructive role for Singapore in regional cooperation. A staunch supporter of a multicultural society, Mr Rajaratnam envisioned the country as a cosmopolitan “global city”.The volume is divided into four thematic sections: foreign policy, ASEAN regionalism, multiculturalism, and Singapore's history — broadly encompassing Mr Rajaratnam's most important contributions to the making of modern Singapore. Also included are original research essays that reassess Mr Rajaratnam's contributions, written by senior staff of the new S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

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305

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World Scientific

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9814476285

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9789814476287

Natural History Drawings

The Complete William Farquhar Collection : Malay Peninsula, 1803-1818

By: William Farquhar,John Sturgus Bastin,Chong Guan Kwa

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Natural History Drawings

The Complete William Farquhar Collection : Malay Peninsula, 1803-1818

By: William Farquhar,John Sturgus Bastin,Chong Guan Kwa

Colonel William Farquhar (1774-1839) was a British Colonial Officer who became Commandant of Malacca in 1803, a post through which he was able o indulge his interest in natural history, sending men to collect various plant and animal specimens, which he then commissioned artists to paint.

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Editions Didier Millet

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9814217697

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9789814217699

China-ASEAN Sub-regional Cooperation

Progress, Problems and Prospect

By: Mingjiang Li,Chong Guan Kwa

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China-ASEAN Sub-regional Cooperation

Progress, Problems and Prospect

By: Mingjiang Li,Chong Guan Kwa

Describes China-ASEAN relations. This book discusses and analyzes China-ASEAN cooperation in the Greater Mekong River Sub-region (GMS), the Pan-Beibu economic zone, ASEAN's growth triangles, and the hydraulic power sector, as well as China-ASEAN economic relations in the wake of the financial crisis.

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187

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World Scientific

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9814340421

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9789814340427

1819 & Before

Singapore’s Pasts

By: Kwa Chong Guan

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1819 & Before

Singapore’s Pasts

By: Kwa Chong Guan

The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9814951420

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9789814951425

S Rajaratnam on Singapore

From Ideas to Reality

By: Chong Guan Kwa,S. Rajaratnam

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S Rajaratnam on Singapore

From Ideas to Reality

By: Chong Guan Kwa,S. Rajaratnam

This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the country''s first foreign minister, he was pivotal in conceptualising and implementing its foreign policy. Present at the birth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), he was also instrumental in ensuring a constructive role for Singapore in regional cooperation. A staunch supporter of a multicultural society, Mr Rajaratnam envisioned the country as a cosmopolitan OC global cityOCO. The volume is divided into four thematic sections: foreign policy, ASEAN regionalism, multiculturalism, and Singapore''s history OCo broadly encompassing Mr Rajaratnam''s most important contributions to the making of modern Singapore. Also included are original research essays that reassess Mr Rajaratnam''s contributions, written by senior staff of the new S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: S Rajaratnam and the Making of Singapore Foreign Policy (3,323 KB). Contents: Foreign Policy; ASEAN Regionalism; Multiculturalism; Singapore''s History. Readership: General readers interested in Singapore, its multiculturalism, history, regional policy and foreign policy.

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World Scientific

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9812772405

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9789812772404

Seven Hundred Years

A History of Singapore

By: Kwa Chong Guan,Tan Tai Yong

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Seven Hundred Years

A History of Singapore

By: Kwa Chong Guan,Tan Tai Yong

- Unique new insights into Singapore's history based on the latest archaeological and archival research - Written in an accessible and engaging style by four of Singapore's most esteemed historians - Amply illustrated with more than 200 images, maps and ephemera

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Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited

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9814828106

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9789814828109

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