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PAP MP withdraws remarks on ministerial salaries
May. 28 | Andrew Loh People’s Action Party (PAP) Member of Parliament for Nee Soon GRC, Dr Lim Wee Kiak has apologised and withdrawn the remarks he made about ministerial salaries. Dr Lim was reported by the Chinese press last week as having said: “If the...
ACRES needs your help to “Save the World’s Saddest Dolphins”
May. 27 | Howard Lee / At the turn of this year, I interviewed Louis Ng, the Executive Director of the Animals Concerns and Research & Education Society (ACRES), and one of the questions was what ACRES plan to do for the coming year. Ng affirmed ACRES’s...
Social Media in Singapore Politics: It’s Serious Business Folks!
May. 25 | This article was originally posted on 24 May 2011 on Economy Watch . TOC thanks Economy Watch for permission to publish this in full here. Raymond Tham/ Singaporeans Find Their Voice (Credit: Stell Woll) It takes a brave person to write...
Potong Pasir petition campaign called off after police intervened
May. 24 | Elliot Aruldoss, Jewel Philemon It all started on 7 May when the results of the 2011 General Elections were revealed. A group of Potong Pasir residents gathered at a coffeeshop at Block 108 eagerly awaiting the results. This was the same coffeeshop which...
Goh Meng Seng’s brother passes
Apr. 28 | Ravi Philemon/ Mr David Goh, brother of the secretary-general of National Solidarity party, Mr Goh Meng Seng, passed away on Thursday morning. Mr Goh was only 56 years old and had no prior major illnesses before his death from a sudden cardiac arrest. Mr...
Criticisms posted on Balakrishnan’s Facebook page deleted
Apr. 26 | Comments by members of the public criticising Vivian Balakrishnan on his Facebook page have been removed/deleted by the page’s admin. It has also disabled wall postings by members of the public on the page. To know what has transpired so far in...
NSP unveils new candidates, challenges Mah to debate
Apr. 15 | by Deborah Choo/ From left to right: Mr Reno Fong, Mr Ken Sun, Mr Steve Chia, Mr Goh Meng Seng, Mr Syafarin Sarif, Mr Raymond Lim and Mr Gilbert Goh The National Solidarity Party (NSP) unveiled its third slate of election candidates today. At a press...
SDP: Choice of political system is the will of Singaporeans, not PAP
Apr. 7 | There is no need for the PAP to split itself to provide a two-party system in Singapore. The PAP must stop belittling and patronizing Singaporeans. We believe that Singaporeans are talented and can provide the leadership necessary for the political system...
SDP Vincent Wijeysingha’s appeal for clemency for Yong Vui Kong
Apr. 5 | The following letter was sent in November last year to President S R Nathan to plead for clemency for Yong Vui Kong. Your Excellency, Clemency for Yong Vui Kong In 2005, the Rotary Club of Sandakan, Sabah, launched an Education Care Programme in Sandakan....
Smile PAP, the Straits Times is here! (Updated: 29 Mar)
Mar. 29 | We will update this page with the pictures from the Straits Times each day until the elections are over. As the General Election approaches, we take a look at the coverage of the People’s Action Party (PAP) by the state-owned broadsheet, The Straits...
Bears, bikes and baby-cuddlers – snapshots of opposition walkabout
Mar. 29 | Photos by Benjamin Cheah, Jewel Philemon, Jeremy Philemon and Joshua Chiang Extra photos by New Asia Republic As the General Election approaches, the various parties are out in full force, and so are our reporters and photographers. Below are some snapshots...
PAP MPs doing walkabout wearing PA shirts?
Mar. 28 | “They (delegates from China) discover that the People’s Action Party (PAP) has only a small office in Bedok. But everywhere they go, they see the PAP – in the RCs (residents’ committees), CCCs (citizens’ consultative committees), and the CCs...
Straits Times does hack job on forum letter?
Mar. 23 | From the blog Visaisahero: Letter sent by by my good friend Samuel C. Wee to ST on the 8th of March, quoting statistics from their Page One infographic: (Read this closely!) I read with keen interest the news that social mobility in Singapore’s education...
Christians “less likely to riot” – George Yeo
Mar. 17 | Straits Times, 16 March 2011 NOTE TO READERS: We will not hesitate to remove any religiously inflammatory remarks – Ed
Clear signal that everyone matters – Josephine Teo
Mar. 16 | “On the first day of Chinese New Year, at six o’clock in the morning, the Prime Minister of Singapore goes to a waste collection point, greets 170 workers who are waste collectors, shakes hands with them, greets them Chinese New Year –...
SM Goh: Flip-flop?
Mar. 16 | “Without the foreign workforce, our flats and MRT will not be built, our buses will come to a standstill, our healthcare services will degrade, and many investors, including Singaporean ones, will uproot and go where talent is abundant. Instead...
SM Goh compares S’pore’s flood to Japan’s tsunami
Mar. 13 | “How many of you followed the latest tragic events in Japan with the tsunami…and then put into context our floods in Singapore against that kind of disaster. “I am not saying we shouldn’t do anything about the flood. But the amount...
Unemployed are “hardcore, voluntarily unemployed” – Dr Tan Khee Giap
Mar. 12 | by Deborah Choo “PAP has one good policy which (it has) said before -no Singaporean who wants to be educated will be denied the education. This is an excellent thing. I challenge PAP to come up with another policy – no Singaporean who wants to...
NSP gets a boost to election campaign
Mar. 11 | by Andrew Loh The National Solidarity Party (NSP) has received a boost to its campaign for the upcoming General Election. At the press conference at its party headquarters on Thursday, NSP President Mr Sebastian Teo announced that Mr Tony Tan, Ms...
Independent candidate Andrew Kuan asked to leave Opposition meeting
Mar. 5 | Mr Andrew Kuan Independent candidate Mr Andrew Kuan was asked to leave the opposition parties’ meeting held at the PKMS building this afternoon. The meeting, the second in a week, is the traditional horse-trading negotiation the parties hold to...
