INK AND INFLUENCE: AN OB MARKERS SEQUEL

Ink and Influence: An OB Markers Sequel is media veteran Cheong Yip Seng's account of Singapore's dramatic beginning.

What, for example, did Lee Kuan Yew do the day after the legendary politician tearfully announced Singapore's break-up with Malaysia on August 9, 1965?

This book gives the seldom-told answer and shares many more such stories as he looks back on his 50-year career.

It recalls his many close interactions with some of Singapore's finest political leaders, and then looks ahead at what might be in store for Singapore, and the 180-year-old The Straits Times.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Why This Book
• The Politicians:
  • 'You Could Hear a Pin Drop!'
  • They Wanted LKY Locked Up
  • A Geopolitical Man
  • 'I Was So Proud of LKY'
  • 'A Sycophant Is of No Use to Me'
  • Thinkers and Doers
  • The Impatient PM
  • When Journalists Wore Black Armbands
  • The Successors
  • I Was Spared Jail
  • If Barisan Had Won
• Globe-trotter:
  • A Classroom Without Walls
  • Dark Forces Underneath
  • Western Hypocrisy
  • China
  • 'The Glory of the Nation'
  • 'While the US Was Sleeping ...'
  • Hong Kong Turmoil
  • 'We Are Watching You!'
  • Chile and OB Markers
  • 'OB Markers' Touched a Raw Nerve
  • Home
  • The Seeds of Solidarity
  • Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  • 'But Most People Do Not Play Golf ...'
• A Geopolitical Straits Times:
  • An ST Makeover
  • The Western Media's Weak Flank
  • Making 'The Bowl' Stronger
  • Think Tank Nation
  • The Alumni
  • Both Friend and Foe
  • From Newsroom to Stage
  • From Newsroom to Parliament
  • Big Hearts
• Last Words
• Index

Readership: General readers.