{"id":18886,"date":"2025-12-12T05:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18886"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:10:39","slug":"as-siblings-separated-can-singapore-and-malaysia-truly-be-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18886","title":{"rendered":"As siblings separated, can Singapore and Malaysia truly be friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In Salman Rushdie\u2019s epic novel Midnight\u2019s Children, the unfolding lives of two boys born on Aug 15, 1947 \u2013 one from a wealthy Muslim family, the other to a Hindu family from the Bombay slums \u2013 tell the distressing story of partition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The harrowing novel recalls the creation of modern day India and Pakistan from the traumatic 1947 division of British India, which resulted in mass displacement, communal violence and societal upheaval. It also paints a tale of brutal conflict between the two diametrically opposite main characters. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Singapore-Malaysia ties\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Singapore-Malaysia ties<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Singapore history\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Singapore history<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Malaysia\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Malaysia<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Anwar Ibrahim\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Anwar Ibrahim<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Lawrence Wong\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Lawrence Wong<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/as-siblings-separated-can-singapore-and-malaysia-truly-be-friends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Salman Rushdie\u2019s epic novel Midnight\u2019s Children, the unfolding lives of two boys born on Aug 15, 1947 \u2013 one from a wealthy Muslim family,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}