Jaya Prakash

Jaya Prakash writes in from Singapore to tell us what hope means to all of us.

The statesman-like role Singapore played in hosting a tsunami summit and helping Indonesia during the 1997 financial crisis should also be reason to know that Singapore has always meant well for Indonesia.

Singapore is confronting tough decisions in controlling the spread of Aids, and this may have consequences for its homosexual communities.

Though it looks unlikely that an attack on Iran will spell horrendous consequences, the likelihood of Washington creating what it did to Japan after World War II, cannot be discounted.

India's reaction to the tsunami has revealed a side of a nation that has gone unnoticed up to now.

If and when that happens the ultimate in economic ruin takes place; all by a simple knack of printing fake currencies!

Nations in the grouping have shown that in the face of a tragedy, they are matured enough to cast aside petty political differences and come together for a greater cause.

Touted as the world's most dynamic economy, it has an unimaginably huge market, a population of 1.3 billion and now a rapidly growing influence in the world. So what is wrong with it?

India is a prolific fountainhead of influential culture and spirituality something the world will see nothing of, if the awakened giant is not allowed to trumpet it through the bullhorn of a UN seat.

The superpower does not need a tragedy to correct its course, things can be righted if its hawkish policies are remedied.

All the fuss in Umno Youth over the use of Malaysian airspace by Singaporean jet fighters only reflects an unnecessary insecurity on Malaysia's part.

Singapore pits moral values against financial value as it battles to reach a decision on operating a casino.

George W Bush's electoral victory has given religion a new relevance in politics, with secularism being increasingly influenced by dominating religious values.

Just two days before the US election, Osama bin Laden has spoken, demonstrating his continued influence on American politics.

George W Bush, with his unilateral policies and flawed judgement, is profoundly unpopular internationally - Americans could be wising up to him as well.

To err is human, to forgive divine ... In the fight against terror, the world must follow Saudi's lead in understanding and forgiving terrorists.

A new wind of political change is now blowing; now that charismatic former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim is free. And it is not only a new beginning, but the end of an old one.

Should Singapore allow its talented people, regardless if they are gay or not, to live in a socially intolerant place so as to drive them away to greener shores elsewhere?

Can the children of illustrious political parents really measure up? That's the question being asked as yet another son of a former premier gets ready to helm a nation.

The battle for hearts and minds is as important as the military means employed to liberate repressed peoples, as the Iraqi outing has shown the 'coalition of the willing'.