OPINION: For PAP new faces, a great chance for some bold talk — PN Balji

The Malaysian Insider, 15 Mar 2011
MARCH 15 — The next significant signpost on the road to the Singapore general election should appear any time now — the new faces of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) being introduced to the media and the electorate.
If past introductions are any indication, these new candidates are likely to share how challenged their lives once were, how they were given opportunities to make good and how they feel so indebted to the system that they now want to give back to society.
But as with many things in Singapore, voters are not going to be satisfied with just these pronouncements. In the Singapore of 2011 and beyond, they have become passe. Full story