by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 17, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Governance, Racism, World Issues
The Malaysian civil service wage bill was 20.9 billion ringgit in 2001. It was RM30.2 billion in 2006. It is expected to be RM64.1 billion by next year. Any rational and responsible government will have to look at how it can legitimately trim the civil service. Tony...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 10, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Family, Following Jesus, Honoring Parents, Jesus
Do you know what it means to be lonely? It is to be the only Christian in a Chinese family when a parent or close member of the family dies. Automatically the family is united in expressing their grief through the prescribed funeral rites. In Malaysia and Singapore...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 4, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Church, Community, Life Issues, Mental Illness
“1 in 10 will suffer from mental illness” The above was the headline of the November 19, 2011 edition of The Straits Times (Singapore). The article, written by Chang Ai-Lien, senior correspondent, went on to say: More than one in 10 people in Singapore...
by Bernice Lee | Nov 26, 2011 | 2011, Articles, God, God's Word
“When you are alone, listen to God,” he had posted in response to my Facebook status update. It was a timely reminder from a caring friend. I had been so caught up with the preparations for MAI-Asia’s Publishing Forum in Hong Kong that I hadn’t...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 18, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring
“This generation of undergraduates is different. They are hungrier for mentoring.” He was a senior lecturer at one of the main universities here in Singapore and he shared his observation during a lunch-time meeting of a group of Christians who meet...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 11, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
He said he had lost his daughter seven months ago. She was two and had died in an accident. The rest of us in our small group were parents. It was easy to empathise. We wept with him. We were all at a Christian publishing conference. Participants had come from various...
