Inside the dimly lit underground bunker, 12 military commanders are about to trigger the largest capitulation in British military history. At 9:45 a.m. on February 15, 1942, Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival ...

Dr. Thum Ping Tjin is Coordinator of Project Southeast Asia and a Research Associate at the Centre for Global History, University of Oxford. The views expressed here are his own. (Reuters file photo) ...

Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore’s other founders “were skillful in seizing their inheritance of geography and history and deploying it effectively.” Elderly women practice Tai Chi, a Chinese form of ...

Riot police standing guard in Little India after a crowd of more than 400 turned unruly on Dec 8, 2013. SINGAPORE – A line of riot police stands guard near a raging fire from a burning ambulance and a ...

IN THE REPUBLIC’S 59-year history, Singapore has had only three leaders. On May 15th it gets its fourth, when the prime minister of 20 years, Lee Hsien Loong—who is 72 and whose father, Lee Kuan Yew, ...