LLife Watch out for xenophobia byDerwin PereiraApril 30, 2024 The philosopher George Santayana’s warning, that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, is… Read More
LLife Foreigners must value SingaporebyDerwin PereiraApril 15, 2024 Singapore needs foreigners. You know it, I know it, and they (I mean, foreigners) know it. This country’s…
LLife Read More 4 minute read Books I wish I’d writtenbyDerwin PereiraApril 6, 2024 There are three books that are of such consuming interest to me that I wish I had written…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Lessons for Asia from a bad European warbyDerwin PereiraMarch 31, 2024 Neither side is winning, two years and more after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 in an escalation…
LLife Read More 3 minute read Relationships Derwin PereirabyDerwin PereiraMarch 16, 2024 “Goodbye”, a heart-rending song by Celine Dion, celebrates her mother: “Mamma/ You gave life to me/ Turned a…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Prabowo’s Indonesia and the Great PowersbyDerwin PereiraMarch 4, 2024 The resounding victory of Prabowo Subianto in the Indonesian presidential election has sparked the usual question: How will…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Prabowo’s Indonesia?byDerwin PereiraFebruary 5, 2024 Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto is set to make his mark in the general election to be held…
LLife John Philip Pereira passed away in Kochi,India on 30 th December 2023byDerwin PereiraJanuary 1, 2024
LLife Read More 4 minute read Decline of The Straits TimesbyDerwin PereiraDecember 3, 2023 It cannot but be a professional shame when a national newspaper ceases to reflect the spirit of the…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Indonesia in presidential moodbyDerwin PereiraNovember 20, 2023 Indonesia is in a presidential mood. That is to say, citizens are enthused by the idea of looming…
PPolitical Read More 6 minute read Taiwan does not need warbyDerwin PereiraOctober 7, 2023 It is worrying that Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has declared that he is preparing for the possibility…