South-east Asia is central to regional
economic and security frameworks
that will inform the grand strategy of
nations in the future, says Ernest Bower.
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C O L U M N S
Key role of S-E Asia
BY AMELIA TAN
G
ETTING four A1s in the O levels...
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South-east Asia is central to regional
economic and security frameworks
that will inform the grand strategy of
nations in the future, says Ernest Bower.
í REVIEW PAGE 32
C O L U M N S
Key role of S-E Asia
BY AMELIA TAN
G
ETTING four A1s in the O levels might not seem like a big
deal in Singapore where it is
common for top students to
score 10 A1s.
But it is, in the case of Xinmin Secondary School student Gary Koh, 16.
He went
from scoring 199 in the Primary School
Leaving Examination (PSLE) to bagging
four A1s and three A2s in last year’s
O-level examinations.
Gary was a playful pupil in primary
school who spent hours playing computers games instead of doing his homework.
He scraped through his exams as a result.
It did not help that his peers started to label him as someone who “cannot study”,
and his confidence plummeted.
But things changed when he got into
Xinmin Secondary’s Normal (Academic)
course.
The Normal course caters to academically weaker students and takes in
about
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