The Online Citizen A Community of Singaporeans There is, of course, no need to ape everything Singapore does. After all, according to a former president of Indonesia, it is no more than a red dot on the map! Besides, there is no way Malaysians or Penangites can pay the chief executives of the government what Singaporeans are paying their prime minister and ministers.
Retired academic Dr Goh Ban Lee, in an article for Malaysian paper The Sun.