Mr SIA: Fly Past (Paperback)
Description About the Author Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation—Lim Chin Beng—the man they called Mr SIA. Abs...
View full detailsThese are the stories of the people who have shaped our community, and in a way, our lives. Whether they've managed groundbreaking achievements, or have sometimes slipped through the cracks in society; each book contains truth, their truth from a certain point of view; but they are definitely filled with life lessons that each of us can learn.
Description About the Author Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation—Lim Chin Beng—the man they called Mr SIA. Abs...
View full detailsDescription Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role ...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Provides a comprehensive portrayal of S. Rajaratnam - one of Singapore's outstanding leaders who played a crucial ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Goh Chok Tong was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. He had neither the connections nor the cun...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Lim Kim San's name is linked inextricably to Singapore's public housing. This is entirely appropriate because he p...
View full detailsDescription About the Author A memoir of Lim Chin Joo, this is a book about his life as a kampong boy growing up against the backdrop of the Se...
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View full detailsDescription About the Authors Once a teenage runaway, S R Nathan rose to become two-term president of prosperous, independent Singapore. In thi...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation—Lim Chin Beng—the man they called Mr SIA. Abs...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu. Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but wha...
View full detailsDescription About the Author John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John He...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Packed full of riotous high jinx and fascinating personal anecdotes, Lat: My Life and Cartoons introduces a whole ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...
View full detailsDescription Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...
View full detailsDescription For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...
View full detailsDescription Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her gran...
View full detailsDescription About the Author While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...
View full detailsDescription Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People’s Republic of China...
View full detailsDescription In Singapore, SMEs are a vital part of the economy, yet little is known of the many leaders whose vision, acumen and hard work have...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Difference Makers: Stories of Those Who Dared is a different sort of book. It features many big names from corpora...
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View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Martin See Tho was 32 when he became a wheel-chair bound victim of Machado Joseph Disease, an incurable deg...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...
View full detailsDescription Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Over sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over...
View full detailsDescription About the Author 10 September 1990 marked a significant milestone in Singapore's political history with the introduction of the Nom...
View full detailsDescription About the Author “We obsess about who they look like - the papa, the mama, a cousin, one or other of grandparents. Mostly, they lo...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Over sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused over...
View full detailsDescription About the Interviewer Over sessions which lasted two to three hours each time, every week for half a year, George Yeo met and mused...
View full detailsDescription Philip Yeo is unlike any civil servant. He prefers action over talk, cartoons over words and speed over due process. The maverick w...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...
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