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Facebook Group Supports Siew Kum Hong as NMP
May. 16 | Darren Boon A Facebook group, ‘We Support Siew Kum Hong’, has been set up to support Mr Siew Kum Hong’s bid for a second term as a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP). In a strong show of support for Mr Siew, the group, which was set up only yesterday,...
Are newspapers heading the way of the dodo?
May. 11 | Darren Boon Monetary losses due to economic downturn and fall in advertising revenue – is this the death knell of the broadsheet? Newspapers are seeing red in the U.S. The Washington Post Company newspaper division chalked up an operating loss of...
AWARE veterans set the record straight
Apr. 25 | Aware’s press conference. For videos of the rest of the event, please click here. Darren Boon Turning up in full force (which include several founding members) to set right the inaccuracies lay out by the new AWARE team. In a press conference...
Student activism – what’s next?
Apr. 23 | Coming Soon: As part of our lead-up to Labour Day on May 1st, TOC will be bringing you a special feature on our elderly folks making a living on the streets of Singapore. The week-long focus will begin on 24th April, Friday. Do look out for it. Darren...
Singaporeans rally to say no to shark fins soup
Apr. 19 | Darren Boon “It’s time for Singaporeans not to just focus on economic growth but for moral progress as well.” This is the message Mr Louis Ng, Founder and Executive Director for Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES), hopes...
TOC Interview: Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s debut
Apr. 11 | Darren Boon Same goals as JBJ but “I’m my own man” Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, the scion of the late politician J.B. Jeyaretnam, has joined and been co-opted into the CEC of the Reform Party. In an interview with The Online Citizen (TOC), the younger...
First ever animal lovers gathering at Speakers’ Corner
Apr. 10 | Darren Boon New angle to educate the public on the perils of the consumption of sharks fin ACRES (Animal Concerns Research and Education Society) is organising the first ever gathering of animal lovers at Speakers Corner on Saturday 18 April at 2pm to...
TOC Opinion: Singapore a “blacklistee” to be?
Apr. 4 | Choo Zheng Xi/Editor-in-Chief With contribution from Darren Boon You would be justifiably confused attempting to make sense of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) progress report on tax havens that emerged from the G20...
The Pope, condoms, AIDs prevention and a controversy
Mar. 30 | Cookie Boy Pope Benedict XVI’s made his maiden trip to Cameroon and Angola in the African continent recently. What was a well-intentioned trip to deliver ‘a word of hope and comfort’, however, was marred by a gaffe about condoms and AIDs prevention. The...
Earth Hour – The world gets ready to switch off
Mar. 28 | Darren Boon What will you be doing come Saturday 28 March at 8.30pm? If you are out and about in the Esplanade area, you might notice that the façade lights of some of the buildings have been switched off for Earth Hour 2009. The blackout will...
Singapore among nations on tax havens “blacklist”? No such list, says OECD
Mar. 27 | Darren Boon / Head, Reporting Team In response to a media enquiry from The Online Citizen, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has dispelled talk of a blacklist of non-cooperative tax centres. There had been speculation...
