Singapore Perspectives 2022: S. Rajaratnam's vision of Singapore as a Global City

We spoke to IPS Director Janadas Devan, Ambassador Chan Heng Chee and Mr Philip Yeo, former Chairman of EDB, on their understanding and interpretation of the 1972 "Global City" speech by former DPM and Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam. The video was played during Singapore Perspectives 2022: City, just before Minister Desmond Lee's dialogue session. Ms Irene Ng, the biographer of S. Rajaratnam, is our advisor for this video and provided the historical perspective of Rajaratnam’s global city concept as well as the narrative for the script. Special thanks to National Archives, SPH and Mediacorp for giving permission to use the archive pictures, video and audio files, and Darren Soh for providing pictures for this video. Watch the full series here    • Singapore Perspectives 2022 "City"   Follow us: Facebook:   / ipslkyspp   Twitter:   / ips_sg   Instagram:   / ips_sg   IPS Website: https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips