'The message for the government from the Tin Pei Ling affair is a simple one: Singapore is changing. Economic growth alone cannot take the country forward; Showing a moral fibre is equally important.'
"The message for the government from the Tin Pei Ling affair is a simple one: Singapore is changing. Economic growth alone cannot take the country forward; Showing a moral fibre is equally important."
What is more worrisome is that the episode shows how the ruling party has chucked the issue of conflict of interest into the dustbin to be ignored and forgotten. It is not a new issue; it has been cropping up since 1986 when Lee Kuan Yew made his son a minister in the late PM’s Cabinet. There was disquiet in the country but nothing was articulated publicly.
Over the weekend I met a friend who told me about the managing director of a small company giving a lucrative contract to provide technical support to his wife. No tender was called, and no permission was sought from the board. I am sure there are similar cases that don’t reach the public arena. But they must be a worry for those Singaporeans who want a morally upright nation that they can all be proud of.
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