
Tom Plate, UCLA Professor and columnist for The Straits Times (Singapore), Honolulu Advertiser and The South China Morning Post, Tom Plate provides a balanced view of the political and economic concerns facing the Asian Pacific, a region of great strategic and economic importance. A longtime journalist, he offers a fresh reporting style, thorough analyses and frequent, exclusive interviews with Asia's political, military and business leaders.
BIOGRAPHY__From 1989-1995 he was Editor of the Editorial Pages of the Los Angeles Times. He has won numerous journalism awards
Originally posted by lionnoisy:Pot calling kettle black?
Unlike William Safire who barked at SG without stepped on sg land.
2.what i said recticted to one issue at a time.What i am quotingOriginally posted by fymk:Pot calling kettle black?
You hardly live in Taiwan or Australia and you post their negatives which you read on media AND you want to say someone is barking?
This is very amusing .

Ah ..You cut and paste and put down negative comments. William Sarfire may be a professional writer but the commonality that exists between you and him is that you both like to whinge about countries which you both probably never live in to comment.Originally posted by lionnoisy:2.what i said recticted to one issue at a time.What i am quoting
the people of that country.Any false info so far?I am not a
professional writer.
That William Sarfire is professional writer.
He painted sg as hell and people as slaves,but without doing his leg works.
He is too generalised of Sg.
Read what Tom Plate said about him at STimes.
Originally posted by maurizio13:It's like the lottery.
You topic already said it all, "[b]RARE western fren of SG".
Means there are very few people who would praise Singapore. I am aware that Tom Plate's view can be considered quite extreme.
In one article he touched on the subject of gay marriages.
http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2004/yax-365.htm
From his article, I think he is in favor of gay marriages, one could say he has very divergent views when compared to the normal masses. I wonder if he belongs to the group, he does have those kind of looks.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=8475
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nice oneOriginally posted by fymk:Ah ..You cut and paste and put down negative comments. William Sarfire may be a professional writer but the commonality that exists between you and him is that you both like to whinge about countries which you both probably never live in to comment.
Pot calling kettle black lah.![]()