Getting the timing right for elections


With national polls looming, the two Grand Old Men of South-East Asian politics seek to impose their respective world views, one to engage the ‘enemy without’ and the other, the ‘enemy within’.

FOR the first time since separation, Malaysia and Singapore may well be holding their respective general elections in the same year.

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