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In Parliament: government’s reply poorly reasoned, insulting
Aug. 28 | By Choo Zheng Xi The Worker’s Party MPs asked why their party was not allowed to hold a cycling event at East Coast Park as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. If Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee’s answer is any...
WP Youth Wing elections set new tone for youths in politics
Aug. 22 | By Choo Zheng Xi It was not so long ago that the single most familiar refrain of opposition politicians was a constant complaint about a ‘climate of fear’ surrounding politics. If the Workers’ Party Youth Wing (WPYW) elections were any gauge, this...
PM Lee’s National Day Rally Speech
Aug. 18 | The Prime Minister’s National Day Rally Speech has been likened by some to the US President’s State of the Union address. It has traditionally served as a summary of the trends and events of the year, and used them to project a direction for the...
Has new media gone off the radar?
Aug. 6 | By Aaron Ng If PM Lee’s National Day message is any indicator of what is coming up on the National Day Rally speech for this year, it is perhaps not surprising that new media has been thrown off the radar, despite having occupied a relatively prominent...
TOC interviews Ephraim Loy
Aug. 3 | Ephraim Loy, one of the men behind Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo’s foray into blogging, has become something of a piñata on TOC. Of the 44 comments so far posted in the article welcoming him on board, many were overwhelmingly negative,...
Displaying the national flag
Jul. 28 | By Andrew Loh National Day is just around the corner but walking around some HDB estates, you will notice the scarcity or absence of the national flag being displayed. So, why are Singaporeans not displaying the flag – proudly and openly? Is it because...
Fare hike for public transport in October?
Jul. 26 | By Andrew Loh The Public Transport Council (PTC) has given public transport operators until August 2007 to apply for any fare revisions they wish to make. (Straits Times, Mar 23, 2007). Any fare hike will take effect from October, according to a PTC...
WP Youth Wing reaches out to youths downtown
Jun. 25 | The Workers’ Party’s Youth Wing held an outreach programme in downtown Singapore on Sunday to celebrate Youth Day with young Singaporeans. The team of about 20 WP members from the Youth Wing strolled down Orchard Road handing out specially-designed...
Award winning local playwright fired from teaching position
Jun. 11 | TOC report Alfian Sa’at, one of Singapore’s most illustrious playwrights, was recently fired from a relief teaching position by the Ministry of Education (MOE). The reason for his dismissal? In the words of the Ministry, he did not ‘best meet the...
Auditor General’s Report – Millions Missing
Jun. 1 | TOC Exclusive The original Auditor General Office’s (AGO) audit of 12 Ministries and associated statutory boards has revealed irregularities to an extent not fully revealed by the recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC). According to the AGO, losses...
JBJ to set up “The Reform Party” (Report)
May. 20 | Video of the press conference is at the end of this article. Recently discharged from bankruptcy, former Workers’ Party chief JB Jeyaretnam announced that he is registering a new political party. Wearing a polo shirt with the words “The Truth Will...
Packed audience at SDP forum
Apr. 14 | The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) held a public forum to a packed audience of between 160 to 180 people at the Sheraton Towers hotel on friday. The Singapore Police and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) had earlier rejected the SDP’s...
DiaSpura – Singapore club at the University of Pennsylvania
Apr. 4 | DiaSpura is a speaker series and musical organized by the Singapore club at the University of Pennsylvania. Among those who attended the event were Singapore Ambassador to the US, Prof Chan Heng Chee (right), former Singapore solicitor-general Francis...
The construction of noise – Singapore de-constructed
Feb. 20 | Singapore is in upheaval – literally. I am sure that all of you have noticed it too – the many construction sites and construction activities going on around our little city-state. Building, re-building, knocking down, piling up, digging underground,...
“Are we moving towards a punitive society?”
Feb. 4 | “Are we moving towards to punitive society?”, the Workers’ Party chairman, Sylvia Lim, asked the packed room of more than 80 people at the party’s headquarters who were there to attend the WP’s forum on the government’s proposed amendments...
Report on the P65 Dialogue on GST implications
Jan. 24 | Starting later than the scheduled time of 7pm, the P65 Dialogue – GST Implications took place at NTUC Centre Jan 23rd, 2007. Chaired by the post-65 PAP MPs Teo Ser Luck, Michael Palmer, and Zaqy Mohammed, the event was a rather scaled-down affair....
New northern hospital – public transport concerns
Jan. 10 | Construction of the new $400 million, 400-beds Alexandra@Yishun hospital is now underway, and is expected to be completed by march 2009 (It was first announced as an election promise by the PAP in the 2001 general elections, by the way. 8 years to build...
w w w . H e l p N a z a n i n . c o m
Jan. 10 | Go to the website here to learn how to help Nazanin. On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a...
My neighbourhood… after dark.
Jan. 5 | By zyberzitizen In the heartlands of Singapore – and away from the glamour and glossy pictures we see on promotional brochures, advertisements and postcards – lies a question. A question which will be asked at the end of this essay. I took...
A stranger, my friend.
Dec. 21 | By zyberzitizen He sleeps there every night – rain or shine. Everytime I get home from work, I see him there. Sometimes, he stares into space while drawing on a cigarette. Other times, he is already sleeping. A cat nearby keeps him company, sometimes...
Freedom Walk
Dec. 14 | The Singapore Democratic Party, along with some like-minded Singaporeans, commemorated Int’l Human Rights Day by embarking on a Freedom Walk from Hong Lim Park to Queenstown remand prison. You can view pictures of the event here.
