Policy, Fairness and Compassion

Straits Times Press

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This collection of speeches, interviews and articles from Coordinating Minister for National Security

and Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam gives insights into his thinking on political and social issues.

It spans a period of over thirty years from 1988, when Shanmugam, then aged 29, was elected into

Parliament as the youngest Member of Parliament, to 2008 and beyond, when he became a Cabinet

minister holding the portfolios of Law, Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs.

The speeches start from when Shanmugam was a backbencher (for 20 years), pressing for more

compensation for his residents and engaging in amusing brushes with government agencies, and

continue through to when he became a Cabinet minister, enacting and changing legislation in diverse

fields. They add to the perspectives on how Singapore has been governed over the last 38 years.

K. SHANMUGAM | AUTHOR

Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, SC, better known as K. Shanmugam, is Coordinating Minister for National
Security and Minister for Home Affairs. He has served as a Member of Parliament
(MP) since 1988. He has also served as Minister for Law and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1985, he later became a Senior Partner at Allen
& Gledhill, and one of the youngest lawyers to be appointed a Senior Counsel
of the Supreme Court of Singapore at the age of 38.

Shanmugam was educated in Raffles Institution and at the National University
of Singapore where he graduated at the top of his class with a First Class Honours
degree in law in 1984.

ISBN: 978-981-5081-09-1
Size: 152 mm x 227 mm (portrait)
Page extent: 384 pp, limp cover with flaps
Estimated weight: 520grams
Publication: February 2026

Policy, Fairness and Compassion

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