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TOC Exclusive: Teo Soh Lung – In her own words (part one)
Oct. 2 | In support of the 16 ex-detainees’ call for the Commission of Inquiry to investigate their detentions, TOC republishes this article which first appeared in TOC on May 19, 2009. – Next on TOC: Lone opposition MP in Parliament in 1987, Mr Chiam...
Political pokerplay: the government’s gamble
Jul. 24 | Khairulanwar Zaini ‘Our glory days were behind us but our excess was just beginning.’ – Jeanette Winterson Do not blink, friends, because an audacious game of political poker has just begun. Our government is very much aware of its eroding popularity...
Was LKY parroting someone else – and getting it wrong?
Jul. 15 | Was Lee Kuan Yew parroting someone else’s remarks – and getting it wrong? “Taiwanese are shameless, Hong Kongers are heartless, Singaporeans are ignorant.” Singaporean columnist Wong Lung Hsiang, April 2006 “The Taiwanese are ruthless,...
GIC stands to lose S$800 million
Jan. 9 | Well, it wasn’t hard to see this coming. But take heart, fellow citizens: despite our tiny size, we are at the forefront of one of the most damaging financial tsunamis about to hit the world in 2010. Singapore Uncle Trader, “GIC at forefront of...
Young Singaporeans reading history and the politics of age
Jan. 2 | The following is Mr Loh Kah Seng‘s speech at the 2009 Year In Review forum at the Post Museum. 2009 was a return to history. Men in White, written by three Straits Times journalists, appeared noisily in September, purporting to tell the ‘untold...
Bashing Singaporeans – PAP gets in on the act
Dec. 31 | Andrew Loh “Will he ever stop bashing Singapore?” – screamed a big bold headline in a New Paper report in October 2007. It was in reference to the secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, Dr Chee Soon Juan. Dr Chee was accused of...
MM Lee’s interview with NatGeo – transcript
Dec. 30 | Transcript of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s interview with Mark Jacobson from National Geographic on 6 July 2009. Q: “I don’t think you’d be dazzled but this is what they give when they interview a big shot.” Mr Lee: “Okay. Barbara Poulson,...
We are a special red dot, says MM Lee
Dec. 30 | We are a little red dot but we are a special red dot. We are connected with the world, we play a special role. And we are not going to be in anybody’s pocket. MM Lee Kuan Yew
National Geographic interviews a dinosaur
Dec. 29 | There are not many countries in the world where people would persistently vote into power a leader who thinks they are all worthless ants… Ben Bland, Asian Correspondent
Complaint against TOC made to S’pore Police
Dec. 28 | The following is an email by a certain “Janet Wee’ which was sent to the Singapore Police Force and copied to The Online Citizen. Her email is also addressed to several other people, including MM Lee Kuan Yew, the Attorney-General, Mr Jeremy Au Yeong...
Lee Kuan Yew had suggested “instigating riots and disorder” to crush opposition
Dec. 27 | From Martyn See’s blog, Singpore Rebel: Below is an excerpt from the newly-published The Fajar Generation. The Barisan Sosialis was then the strongest political force in Singapore and its leadership united and staunchly anti-colonial in their outlook....
Higher HDB prices good for Singaporeans?
Dec. 21 | Leong Sze Hian Our columnist picks apart the latest announcements and replies from HDB. I refer to the HDB’s latest announcement on Build-to-order (BTO) flats for December – in Queenstown (Dawson), Bukit Panjang and Sembawang. Once again, the...
Lee’s inglorious past
Dec. 14 | The word gratitude is not to be found in Lee’s lexicon. In fact, it would have been a great joke if Lim’s detention had caused him any grief. Singapore Recalcitrant
TOC Blog Feature: 10 reasons why I cannot vote for the PAP in the next election
Dec. 13 | From the blog, yaevlejunce: Now that I am of age to vote, I am unable to vote for the PAP in the coming election because there is such an urgent need to send across a strong signal through their very thick skulls that there is a problem in the way it’s...
S’pore’s 2nd longest-held political prisoner speaks
Nov. 20 | Dr Lim Hock Siew is Singapore’s second longest-held political prisoner. He was accused of being a communist and was arrested without trial in 1963 in Operation Coldstore.
MM Lee: My insistence on bilingualism was wrong
Nov. 18 | “Successive generations of students paid a heavy price, because of my ignorance, by my insistence on bilingualism.” MM Lee Kuan Yew Video from Channelnewsasia
Dow Jones ordered to pay PM & SM S$400,000
Nov. 18 | From AFP: A magazine and its editor have been ordered to pay Singapore’s prime minister and his father over 400,000 dollars (290,000 US) for defamation, court documents showed Tuesday. The High Court ordered the Review Publishing Company, publisher...
Sucking demigods’ toes
Nov. 12 | I sometimes wonder why people don’t seem to feel embarrassed. They hold high positions; they can’t be stupid to have gotten to where they are. Yet they kowtow to their political masters so low, they not only kiss their feet, but suck their...
Politicians’ personal sacrifices – lets have a sense of proportion
Nov. 11 | Just because Indranee and Shangmugum earn less now (but still in the millions) does it mean that they are sacrificing their bloody selves? Hello, do we want to put them in the same league as Mother Theresa or Mahatma Ghandi next? Let’s have a...
Rubbish? Look who’s talking
Nov. 10 | Andrew Loh & Ravi Philemon “Come election time, they talk a lot of things, which is rubbish… This is a government which chooses its MPs very carefully; test them out before they become ministers. That’s why it is working. The present...
The good life for younger generation a problem for Singapore – Lee Kuan Yew
Nov. 9 | If every time we run into a problem and the younger generation has grown up for the last 20, 30 years knowing only improvements in life, more income, better surroundings, better everything… that’s a problem. MM Lee Kuan Yew
Singapore neither a nation nor a country – Ministers
Oct. 31 | Here is a report by Channelnewsasia in July 2009 on MM Lee saying that Singapore is not yet a nation: Despite achieving harmony amongst all races in Singapore, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said on Saturday that the country is still a work-in-progress...
“We now have Ukrainians serving in the army” – Lee Kuan Yew
Oct. 24 | Straits Times censor Lee Kuan Yew?: Why did the Straits Times censor MM Lee’s remarks about Obama being a “very great” man? See TOC’s Facebook page here. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew gave an interview with Charlie Rose on the...
Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum: The Lion, the Young and the Orchestra
Oct. 20 | Khairulanwar Zaini / Photos by Damien Chng They clamour for his wisdom: O Father, whither Singapore in 50 years? The patriarch smiles and holds up a mirror: the minds and hearts in the auditorium his masterpiece, the technocratic utopia will persist,...
NUS forum with MM Lee had “planted” questions for MM
Oct. 20 | 500 university students deserved better than 9 deliberately planted questions at the NUS Kent Ridge Forum with MM Lee Kuan Yew. Yes, the moderator made it explicitly known that the questions were screened and planted. This isn’t right. Nathaniel...
GIC may lose big on investment in apartments
Oct. 16 | Another big player in the restructuring talks could be Singapore’s GIC. The fund owns a $575 million mezzanine loan backed by the property, according to people familiar with the matter. Also, GIC owns about $100 million to $200 million in equity,...
Power, change and leadership succession
Oct. 2 | Ho Rui An On Lee Kuan Yew’s 86th birthday, Netina Tan raised a question that has lately been discussed with increased urgency – will Singapore survive Lee Kuan Yew? Birthdays are usually a cause for celebration, but I couldn’t help but...
GIC had anticipated crisis, says chairman
Sep. 29 | We had anticipated the crisis and taken precautionary action which mitigated losses in the ensuing bear markets. GIC Chairman, Tony Tan
Passion And Patriotism (PAP)
Sep. 16 | TOC wishes MM Lee Kuan Yew a happy 86th birthday and thanks him for his nation-building endeavour. Ravi Philemon “It is difficult for him not to interfere,” said Mr Goh Chok Tong as he took over from Mr Lee Kuan Yew as the Prime Minister...
Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy on leadership succession
Sep. 16 | TOC wishes MM Lee Kuan Yew a happy 86th birthday and thanks him for his nation-building endeavour. Netina Tan A public conference was held recently to discuss the country’s prospects in the event of MM Lee Kuan Yew’s death (ST 21 Apr 2009). Lee Kuan...
Lee Kuan Yew’s 86th birthday
Sep. 16 | Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew celebrates his 86th birthday today – 16 September. Below is his interview with Charlie Rose where MM Lee spoke about various issues.
Singapore’s political centre of gravity has shifted
Sep. 7 | The centre of gravity has finally shifted. But what of the government’s response? Are they still in denial mode? Is there anyone there who has the wisdom to see that the best legacy they can leave behind is to redesign the political system to make...
PAP will win next two elections: Lee Kuan Yew
Sep. 3 | From AFP: SINGAPORE – Singapore’s elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew said Wednesday that he expects his People’s Action Party to win the next two elections to extend its grip on power by as much as 10 more years. “I don’t see any...
Men In White – “No-holds-barred report” on PAP?
Sep. 3 | From Martyn See’s blog, Singapore Rebel: “It was a no-holds-barred report”, gloats Richard Lim, one of three senior journalists who were commissioned to write the history of the People’s Action Party in a new book entitled Men In White,...
S’pore 3rd world democracy, Malaysia 3rd world mentality
Sep. 2 | The main reason Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman decided to kick Singapore out of Malaysia was the speech made by its then Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, in the Malaysian Parliament in May 1965 questioning the Malay government in Malaysia… If 50 years...
We should respect MM Lee, but not defer to him
Sep. 1 | Andrew Loh Whenever MM Lee steps out and demolish, to use his own word, someone else’s ideas, he does so with much effect. Whether that effect is a positive or beneficial one is open to debate. What is not, perhaps, is that when MM Lee comes out forcefully,...
Global crisis sparks Singapore fund shake-up
Sep. 1 | From the Financial Times: The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds, on Monday announced a senior management shake-up prompted by concerns about protectionism and regulatory change in the...
PAP pondering how best to fight to stay in power
Aug. 24 | The following article is by Seah Chiang Nee, first published on The Star Online. The Government appears to be telling young Singaporeans that if they want debate, the government will give it to them and if the youngsters want parliamentary democracy,...
What sort of government is this?
Aug. 23 | Why does the Government say it is open, and then come down hard on views that are not their own? They only prove themselves to be closed off to anything remotely different or divergent from their own views. How tragic for Singapore that true debate never...
Lee Kuan Yew – The modern Malay pahlawan
Aug. 22 | Greetings: The Online Citizen wishes all Muslim Singaporeans a blessed holy month of Ramadan. Khairulanwar Zaini The Malay community has found its new defender – Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. Usually the community’s harshest critic, Lee invoked...
Lee Kuan Yew: “All around us is evidence of our accountability.”
Aug. 20 | We’re here today, we have this building, we have all these facilities, and all around us is evidence of our accountability. Without being accountable, we would not have been re-elected and there would have been no Singapore of today. MM Lee Kuan...
TOC Special Feature: Foreign Talent policy remains contentious, and for reason too
Aug. 18 | Pritam Singh / Founder of OpinionAsia.com The overall perception is of a poorly articulated, poorly communicated and poorly understood FT policy that incites questions of loyalty, nationhood and national unity for native Singaporeans. The Straits Times’...
Who holds the sovereign wealth of this nation and why?
Jul. 30 | Sydney Morning Herald: SINGAPOREANS aren’t usually given to open criticism of the Lee family that has ruled them for half a century. Rightly or wrongly, some presume that in their tightly controlled island state, walls have ears, and one never knows...
Censors refuse to classify One Nation Under Lee
Jul. 17 | Breaking News: 49-year old patient becomes Singapore’s first fatality from the H1N1 virus. From Martyn See’s blog, Singapore Rebel: The Board of Film Censors (BFC) has refused to classify One Nation Under Lee (ONUL). The video documentary,...
5 out of 9 new NMPs list MM Lee as their “favourite politician”
Jul. 10 | Andrew Loh In a Straits Times report on 10 July, five out of the nine new Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) list Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as their favourite politician. United States president, Barack Obama, is second with two votes of confidence,...
Singapore — the modern middle kingdom?
Jun. 17 | From Mahathir’s blog: 1. Ancient China considered itself the centre of the world and called itself the Middle Kingdom. And well it should. It was far more advanced in every way than Europe of the Dark Ages. Maybe China is thinking of making a...
The cost of Singapore’s heavy export reliance
Jun. 13 | From AP: This speck on the map leapt from poverty to First World riches in a generation. Now its halcyon years of breakneck growth may be over. Ask none other than Lee Kuan Yew, the authoritarian statesman who oversaw Singapore’s transformation...
PM Lee doesn’t take private jet
Jun. 10 | Mr Lee said he did not think Singapore was an affluent country, the Korean daily reported. ‘Besides, as a government official, I have to lead by example. Singapore’s senior officials fly economy class, not first class, for flights under...
1989 – Lee Kuan Yew’s defamation suit against FEER
May. 24 | Nathaniel Koh This article consists mainly of excerpts from the Straits Times and the Wall Street Journal. Overview In September 1989, then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew sued the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) over an article related to the “Marxist...
