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Posts tagged with "Singapore politics"
United Singapore Democrats — a new political party
Apr. 2 | By Ng E-Jay The registration of a new political party, the United Singapore Democrats (USD), has caused much buzz in cyberspace. The party members, however, are keeping mum for now. They will disclose further details about the new party at a press conference...
Engaging Singaporeans in new media: focus on the issues
Mar. 28 | By Leong Sze Hian This article has been updated with an edited version. During a recent REACH forum, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that feedback obtained online needs to be assessed “critically and carefully”, and that it is easy to...
PM Lee on engagement of new media
Mar. 27 | “Mr Lee (Hsien Loong) noted the government must also be cautious of what he calls ‘Astroturfing’ campaigns. That’s where individuals or groups fake identities and orchestrate online movements.” Channel NewsAsia
TOC Editorial: Cooling-off day may lead to heated confusion
Mar. 16 | By Ng E-Jay Three bills were tabled in Parliament last week to amend the Constitution as well as the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Acts. The proposed changes include raising the maximum number of Non-Constituency MPs from six to nine, making...
Why not apply ‘town council logic’ to worker wages?
Mar. 11 | By Gangasudhan This morning a TODAY report (No hike, say some town councils) proclaims that “(r)esidents in at least seven People’s Action Party (PAP) town councils can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being”. Never mind that the...
Who elected these clowns?
Mar. 8 | Newsflash: Gopalan Nair, who yesterday claimed that he had received information that MM Lee Kuan Yew had suffered a heart attack, has now admitted on his blog that “the hoax was deliberately written by me” and “(i)n fact I don’t...
Milder but more credible
Dec. 20 | Terence Lee In this third installment of our “Youth in Politics” series, we speak to Koh Choong Yong and Ng Swee Bee, President and Vice-President of the Worker’s Party Youth Wing. Don’t expect rabble-rousing politics from the Worker’s...
Circumventing the mainstream media bias: A call for oppositional introspection
Sep. 6 | Pritam Singh / Founder of OpinionAsia.com The kerfuffle last week within the Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS), an opposition political party in Singapore must have been music to the ears of the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). After all,...
“Democracy need not involve the presence of an opposition,” says PAP member
Aug. 13 | The following is an article written by Xu Kaixian, a member of the People’s Action Party’s Paris Ris West Branch. The article was published in the latest issue of Petir, the PAP’s newsletter. The views are his own and TOC does not support them....
TOC International : Is our politics any different from China’s?
Feb. 12 | TOC International is our new column and is made up of a group of Singaporeans who are currently living, studying or working abroad. From countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and China, they’ll write about their experiences,...
Apocalypse: LIVE!
Aug. 26 | Play with strong political themes and angst approved? Ng Sook Zhen / Writer What happens when fire from the sky rains down and thousands, including all our Members of Parliament, are killed, and the Singapore Flyer is nothing more than a smoking symbol...
Of eggs and baskets
Aug. 15 | If I were a PAP campaign strategist (which I am obviously not educationally qualified to be), I would advise them to liberalize politics significantly. In one fell swoop, they would pull the rug under the opposition’s feet. Gerald Giam
The “YouTube style of politics” in S’pore?
Jul. 17 | On 4 July 2008, Channel NewsAsia reported: Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan has said the Internet will change the way politics is conducted, and the challenge now is how to engage with what he called the “YouTube...
