Israel’s quest for survival
by : Derwin Pereira Israelis who suffered the terror attack carried out by Hamas on October 7 last…
Pope of the peripheries
By Derwin Pereira It lies to the credit of Asia and Oceania that Pope Francis decided to make…
Watch out, America!
By : Derwin Pereira On Saturday, Republican presidential contender Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during an election…
Dodging a bullet in the skies
by : Derwin Pereira If there is one piece of good news in the horrible episode of Singapore…
Lawrence Wong: What’s coming?
by : Derwin Pereira The orderly transition of power from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to his successor…
Prabowo must go for new thinking
by : Derwin Pereira Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s promise is to make Indonesia great again. It is not…
Watch out for xenophobia
The philosopher George Santayana’s warning, that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, is…
Foreigners must value Singapore
Singapore needs foreigners. You know it, I know it, and they (I mean, foreigners) know it. This country’s…
Books I wish I’d written
There are three books that are of such consuming interest to me that I wish I had written…
Lessons for Asia from a bad European war
Neither side is winning, two years and more after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 in an escalation…
Relationships Derwin Pereira
“Goodbye”, a heart-rending song by Celine Dion, celebrates her mother: “Mamma/ You gave life to me/ Turned a…