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Zuraidah Ibrahim
Executive Managing Editor
Zuraidah supervises the publication’s Hong Kong, Asia and international coverage as well as its photo, graphics and Young Post desks. She also oversees This Week in Asia, an award-winning Sunday current affairs magazine.
Zuraidah was previously the Deputy Editor of Singapore’s largest English-language daily, The Straits Times.
Among the books Zuraidah has published are Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going (Straits Times Press, 2011), a monograph on the Opposition in the Singapore Chronicles series (Institute of Policy Studies, 2017) and a co-edited compendium of reports on Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire (SCMP Publishers, 2020). Her latest book project is Post Portraits – Hong Kong’s 25 years of change through the...
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The ex-general and long-time presidential hopeful could win Indonesia’s top job without the need for a second round of voting, according to the polls – but much will depend on voter turnout.
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At a time of rising living costs, political scandals and ‘displeasure with the status quo’, analysts say this week’s presidential election may be an opportunity for Singaporeans to register displeasure with the ruling People’s Action Party.
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In this issue of Hong Kong Update, we unpack details of the newly unveiled budget, while elsewhere, a gruesome murder case shocks the city.
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Singapore’s opposition has never regained the ground it gave up in 1966 – something to keep in mind as Hong Kong’s pan-democrats mull a collective boycott of the city’s new political system.
An 8 percentage point drop in vote share is unsettling for Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party amid plans for a leadership transition.
The Lion City’s opposition parties are not a government in waiting, but rather a way to provide a level of check and balance on the ruling party.
Anthony Neoh, head of the police watchdog, says formally withdrawing the unpopular extradition legislation would give it a ‘proper burial’ and soothe public anger. He does not rule out having a judge-led inquiry after that.
City leader Carrie Lam expected to announce the decision at 3pm.
Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Australia go to the polls in 2019 against a backdrop of a new style of politics harnessing people power to sweep aside democratic checks and balances.
And that’s the advice Lee Kuan Yew would give the Chinese if he were alive today, according to the Lion City’s former prime minister
Tasked with leading the Lion City between the reigns of Lee the father and Lee the son, Singapore’s second prime minister had a vital, but underappreciated, mission: showing there was life after the death of a legend.
‘There’s nothing to be afraid of,’ when it comes to China, the Malaysian leader says in an exclusive interview with the SCMP. Yet, while he is not anti-China, he is not always pro-Chinese investment either.
