KRMF 2010 takes a positive turn

The upcoming Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum will feature a discussion with Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on the theme of “Forever Young”, discussing the challenges that Singapore would be facing as our economy, population and society matures.

With the crescent moon on the Singapore flag symbolizing a young, developing nation on the ascent, the discussion will also center on different ways that Singapore may continually seek to reinvent herself in order to stay strongly relevant to the ever changing global landscapes in the 21st century.

The Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum is organized by the NUS Political Association, and will be moderated by Associate Professor Bilveer Singh from the Department of Political Science.

As opposed to the previous Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum with guest speaker MM Lee and forum moderator Prof. Tommy Koh, the Q&A segment will not be pre-empted and will be open to the floor on the very evening.

The previous Kent Ridge Ministerial forum was a great success, but some critics have suggested that the Question and Answer segment was too carefully planned and most of the questions that were posed to MM Lee stayed on the safe side.

NUSPA promises ‘raw conversation’ with DPM Teo this time around, with questions not filtered through the panel organizing the event.

The Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum will be open to all NUS students, and registration is done through their website.

Talk Politics discusses KRMF 2010

The upcoming Talk Politics session will discuss ways to engage DPM Teo in the upcoming Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum.

Talk Politics is a discussion session bringing together Singapore citizens to critical reflect and share information about their own place in the population politics of Singapore.

More specifically, the upcoming Talk Politics session will ask these following questions: What do we know about the Singapore population? How will the question be framed? As DPM Teo prescribes the panacea to the challenges facing Singapore as an aging population and a maturing society with a nascent culture of its own, we in turn ask, can such a elixir of youth be found? If it can be, what will it take?

The group will be meeting on the 31st of March. More details can be found on their Facebook events page.