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Reforming the NMP Scheme
Dec. 11 | Kelvin Teo A Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) is technically an unelected member of the Parliament who does not represent any political party or electoral district in the Singapore Parliament. The scheme was first introduced in the 1990s in order...
Why report on Viswa Sadasivan’s speech was removed from TOC
Aug. 30 | On Friday, 28 August, The Online Citizen published a report by Fang Shihan on NMP Mr Viswa Sadasivan’s speech at the Lee Kuan School of Public Policy. On 29 August, we removed the report from our website after being contacted by Mr Viswa’s...
New NMP “has discredited YP publicly”, says exco member
Jul. 21 | Breaking News: Chip Goodyear, who was to succeed Temasek Holdings CEO Ho Ching, has decided not to take up the appointment. Temasek says Ho Ching will continue as CEO and Executive Director. (See Reuters report.) The following is a letter published in...
“Non-partisan” NMPs? Did we miss something?
Jul. 13 | Andrew Loh What we have now is a PAP-infested Select Committee which has picked, to be NMPs, a YPAP member, a NTUC member and 5 people who idolise MM Lee! Good grief! “Enacted in 1990, the NMP scheme provides for persons …. to contribute to the...
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,...
Victims of reverse tactical ploy or party political opportunists?
May. 29 | Announcement: TOC is relaxing its moderation policy. As most of you can see, your comments are allowed to be posted immediately. However, we are still keeping an eye on the comments, and will not hesitate to remove those which are personal attacks, racist...
TOC Analysis: PM’s gambit is manufactured dissent par excellence
May. 28 | Choo Zheng Xi / Khairulanwar Zaini In chess, a gambit is an opening move which sacrifices a minor piece for a stronger strategic position later in the game. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent changes seem to have answered the opposition and the...
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,...
Will Siew Kum Hong get another term?
May. 14 | Breaking News: Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to face trial for breaching the conditions of her detention under house arrest, her lawyer has said… (BBC News) Excerpt from Alex Au’s website, Yawning Bread: Over the last few...
“A voice for the arts and artists”
May. 4 | Khairulanwar Zaini “A voice for the arts and artists” – and two names emerged as potential Nominated Members of Parliament (NMP) to represent the Arts community. Audrey Wong, the artistic co-director of Substation, and Loretta Chen, the artistic...
Stand up and be counted
Apr. 18 | Evaluating two decades of the Nominated MP scheme The concept of nominated MPs (NMP), or non-elected MPs as it was known back then, was first proposed in 1989 by then Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong to provide some sort of balance to the ruling...
