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Straits Times’ outrageous opinion piece on homelessness
Mar. 10 | By Callan Tham The Straits Times, true to its form of operating as a government mouthpiece, publishes this gem of an opinion piece disguised as ‘Prime News’ entitled Life’s a beach but it’s no holiday (complete with the accompanying...
Survey on IT knowledge among Singaporeans
Mar. 9 | TIP Media hit the streets recently to find out from the man (and woman) in the street what they understood by some IT terms – with some hilarious results! _________________________________ About TIP Media TIPMedia.net was started by 2 innovative...
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...
Budget debate statistics: Uniquely Singapore?
Mar. 7 | By Leong Sze Hian According to the article “Parliament: Transformation budget for future” published in My Paper on 5 March, the Finance Minister was quoted as having rebutted opposition MP Low Thia Khiang’s (Hougang) claim that the Government...
The language divide
Mar. 6 | By Yini Chua Step into any ACS school, and you would be hard-pressed to find anyone conversing in Mandarin. As an alumnus aptly articulated, the surest way of gaining notoriety is to ‘get a loudhailer and start singing Chinese songs at the top of...
At the Ringside of the global village
Mar. 6 | By Ho Rui An The central thesis of Work-Life: The Making of Community, a two-day forum presented by the Theatre Training and Research Programme and the British Council argues that communities are centered on creative activity. It puts forth that communities...
Lim Swee Say, the consummate joker
Mar. 6 | By the author of Singapore Recalcitrant Can you believe your ears when the honourable Mr. Lim Swee Say, minister and secretary-general of the NTUC, said that he was like the little frog in the unheard of fable “kingdom of frogs” that he was...
Sylvia Lim on GRCs
Mar. 6 | “Group Representation Constituencies can be chopped and changed; Member Constituencies can be created and dissolved with a stroke of a pen.” WP Chairman Sylvia Lim, in parliament
Malay homelessness – who was the quicker finger-pointer?
Mar. 6 | By Joshua Chiang Imran sold his flat for a profit. With the money, he rented a bungalow in Johor Bahru and even bought a car. Two years later, his money was spent, and he was back in Singapore, homeless. Imran could be what Senior Parliamentary Secretary...
Interview with Rev. Dr. Edward Job on Death Penalty
Mar. 4 | Rev. Dr. Edward Job, a person with over 16 years of experience in helping drug addicts, speaks his mind on the death penalty.
Anti-Death Penalty in Singapore
Mar. 4 | One reader reflects on the situation in Singapore. Yong Vui Kong’s appeal is going before the Court of Appeal this March. It seems that Singapore cyberspace is pretty much silent on the issue but a few interesting points in the death penalty debate...
Subhas Anandan on Walter Woon stepping down
Mar. 4 | “He’s (Attorney General Walter Woon) more of an academic, but there’s also a possibility he would stand in the next General Election as a candidate.” Subhas Anandan, president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore
Award-winning director’s take on community
Mar. 4 | Award-winning Singapore director, Tan Pin Pin, succinctly points out how the simple act of watching a movie in a cinema theatre is also a form of community. Ms Tan will be speaking at the Work-Life: The Making Of Community forum this Friday and Saturday...
SDP’s Teoh Tian Jing: Ruling will go down as one that ignored common sense
Mar. 4 | By the Singapore Democrats Two days after the Singapore Democrats commemorated our 30th anniversary dinner, Mr Gandhi Ambalam, Dr Chee Soon Juan, and Ms Chee Siok Chin are being imprisoned again. They are serving a one-week imprisonment after they were...
30 minutes that changed the people’s lives
Mar. 3 | By Ajax Copperwater On 1st January 1982, Singapore celebrated the New Year 30 minutes earlier because of a decision by the PAP government to move the time in sync with Malaysia’s for political and economic reasons. Of course, the move to change...
Vivian Balakrishnan on protecting homeless children
Mar. 3 | “I have insisted that (to) anyone with children. The children must be put in a proper home; they must continue to go to school. They must continue to get access to good food, good hygiene. And if any family has difficulty providing these things...
Low Thia Khiang: Low productivity not workers’ fault
Mar. 3 | By Gerald Giam Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang has slammed the PAP government for seemingly suggesting that Singaporean workers have only themselves to blame for their low incomes, because of their low productivity and skills. He said it was easy...
Low Thia Khiang on low wages
Mar. 3 | “How long more must our low-wage workers wait to enjoy a first-world pay? Must they wait until our productivity reach two to three per cent?” Mr Low Thia Khiang, in parliament
Singapore playwright on making communities
Mar. 2 | Alvin Tan, Founder and Artistic Director of The Necessary Stage shares his thoughts about what community means within the Singapore context. Mr Tan will be speaking at the Work-Life: The Making Of Community forum this Friday and Saturday – for more...
Youths unite in creating 169 kites of well-wishes for the 2010 YOG
Feb. 28 | Over 150 local and international youths created 169 kites – the number of days from the event date to the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (Singapore 2010) – at the CAN! Create event yesterday. Made and designed by youths from the Mongolian community,...
Work-Life: The Making Of Community Forum
Feb. 27 | What makes a community? How can community celebrations help to celebrate identity and difference? Can art bring communities together? And how do artists work with communities to empower them to make their voices heard? All of these questions and more...
Electric Scooter now available in Singapore!
Feb. 25 | By Bhavani Prakash, founder of Eco Walk The Talk Zeco Systems Pte Ltd, a Singapore born and bred clean technology company, is paving the way for a quiet revolution in the way we move around. The firm launched a global rollout of its EV charging solutions...
Post Budget Day blues….
Feb. 25 | See more of Sei-Ji’s brilliant work at My Sketchbook… ___________________________________________________
Singapore ranked 70 in Quality of Life Index
Feb. 18 | By Gangasudhan International Living, a magazine whose business for the past 30 years has been to inform readers on the best places to live and work, released its 2010 Quality of Life Index last month. This year’s index places Singapore at Number 70...
The irony of being Singaporean
Feb. 17 | Sei-Ji Rakugaki illustrates the sad state of being Singaporean – where you have less access than foreigners. See more of Sei-Ji’s brilliant work at My Sketchbook… ________________________________________
Aftermath of the Rony Tan incident: it has only just begun
Feb. 12 | By Alvin Phoon For most, the Rony Tan issue is resolved. Apologies have been made, hands have been shaken and people have been humbled. However, what this issue has successfully accomplished is to further expose the perils of religion in a multi-cultural,...
MFA update on accident involving Romanian embassy vehicle
Feb. 12 | The Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned HE Aurelian Neagu, the Romanian Ambassador to Singapore (who is based in Tokyo), to MFA on 11 February 2010 on the matter of the two hit-and-run traffic accidents on 15 December 2009 that involved the Romanian...
ST Forum letter on homeless situation and official reply
Feb. 11 | ST PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN The Homeless Deserve Better Treatment Letter from Joshua Chiang as published in the Sunday Times on 8 Feb 2010 As a private citizen who is working with other concerned individuals to aid and raise awareness for the homeless in Singapore,...
Grit and Grime: the migrant worker in Singapore cinema
Feb. 11 | By Ho Rui An How do we record memories, sensations and feelings? How do we adequately translate the fleeting and ineffable into a concrete expression of the most visceral human experiences? Capturing the “truth”, in its purest and most unadulterated...
What the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer really says
Feb. 8 | By Gangasudhan Last week, TOC critiqued the Straits Times’ misrepresentation of the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer report, and soon after managed to get in touch with some Edelman representatives. The localised press release for Singapore was duly furnished...
Limited-time trials on Singapore’s first synthetic ice rink
Feb. 8 | Working in collaboration with the Singapore Ice Hockey Association (SIHA), Stamford American International School (SAIS) has is offering Singapore’s first synthetic ice-skating rink on the school’s Foundation Campus at Lorong Chuan. This trial of...
Fail; Fail Again; Fail Better…
Feb. 5 | By Song Kwang Photo courtesy of Singaporean Says Few would know who Samuel Beckett is – well, I didn’t know who he was either. But what caught my attention was his quote “Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better” that I came across whilst...
In bed with the Economic Strategies Committee
Feb. 5 | One of our resident cartoonists, Sei-Ji Rakugaki, wonders about the ESC through his sketchpad – is this further from reality or closer to the truth? See more of Sei-Ji’s work at My Sketchbook… __________________________________________
Youth leaders from S’pore & Malaysia condemn attacks on Malaysian churches
Jan. 14 | Wong Chun Han Young Singaporean and Malaysian politicians have united in speaking out against recent attacks on churches in Malaysia. Youth wing leaders from the Singapore Democratic Party and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People’s Justice Party) issued...
Copenhagen: failure or success
Jan. 11 | ECO Singapore Assoc Prof Pauline Tay-Straughan had the following questions brought up to the Minister of Environment and Water Resources Dr Yacoob Ibrahim and the Parliament over the weekend. Response is to be expected at the Parliament session on the...
Is multiracialism also just an aspiration?
Jan. 4 | Breaking News: HDB resale flat prices rose 3.8 per cent over the third quarter which saw prices going up by 3.6 per cent. (Straits Times) Singapore’s economy shrank 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter to December from the previous three months…...
The ability of countries to reduce their emissions will vary, says PM Lee
Dec. 18 | This is Singapore’s national statement to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, delivered by PM Lee to the international community. Lee Hsien Loong Mr President First, I wish to thank you and the Government and People of the Kingdom of Denmark...
Youth Olympics can, SEA games cannot?
Dec. 18 | Kelvin Teo Singapore’s decision not to host the 2013 SEA Games is baffling. There does not seem to be a good reason why it cannot do so, given that the Youth Olympics would be hosted before the new Sports Hub is ready. The first summer Youth Olympics...
Haunting mural graces Citylink
Dec. 18 | Report and photos by Wallace Woon The black wall with its black dripping paint and chalk scribblings resemble the chaos of a classroom. Yet the message within the writings is hardly academic. Facts pointing towards the various injustices throughout countries...
Does Singapore have a climate change policy?
Dec. 17 | Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong arrives today at Copenhagen to attend the high-level negotiation at the UNFCCC COP15. Civil society participation at COP15 has been reduced to meagre 1,000 today. By friday, the number would be reduced to 90. Donaldson...
PMETs and degree holders among hardest hit by weak labour market
Dec. 16 | Leong Sze Hian Despite a slight increase in GDP in the third quarter of this year, Singapore’s labour market, as well as the earnings and productivity of resident workers have not recovered. A report released yesterday by the Ministry of Manpower reveals...
Little green applause for Singapore
Dec. 12 | aLgae aLgae is a member of ECO Singapore, hoping to bring forward the gravity of the climate change issue in Copenhagen this December. The group is part of the International Youth Climate Movement (IYCM) at the United Nations Framework Convention for...
Debunking Singapore’s government claims on climate change action
Dec. 5 | Charles As the Singapore mainstream media announced the government’s decision to reduce its carbon emission by 16 percent below ‘business as usual’ levels by 2020, the public is conned into believing that the PAP is doing something to combat or...
High Court grants rare stay of execution
Dec. 3 | Breaking News: TOC has learned that the Attorney-General has filed an application to quash the stay of execution which the High Court granted to Yong Vui Kong on 2 December. The AG’s application will be heard on Tuesday, 8 Dec. DPP Jaswant Singh...
Cooling-off…. into a deep freeze
Dec. 1 | [Elections] in Singapore are already devoid of any heat. Any more cooling and the elections will go into deep freeze, sending voters into hibernation. Singapore Democratic Party
Was Singapore just a fishing village?
Nov. 30 | It has often been said that Singapore was just a “fishing village” before independence and the arrival of the People’s Action Party. “Many years ago, when Singa pore was just a fishing village, our forefathers came here in search...
Why I prefer Canada’s education system – world-ranking or not
Nov. 29 | Wing Lee Cheong / Canada “Singapore’s ranked 1st in quality education system in the world” – Global Competitiveness Report 2007–2008 “Singapore ranked one of the world’s best-performing school systems” – McKinsey...
President rejects clemency petition for Yong Vui Kong
Nov. 27 | Andrew Loh Yong Vui Kong’s death sentence “should stand”, the Principal Private Secretary (PPS) to President Nathan said in a letter from the Istana. In a one-sentence response to the petition for clemency for Yong, which was sent to the President...
Reducing the cost of living – the Lean way
Nov. 27 | Jeisilan Sivalingam How can we become more efficient and effective while at the same time reduce costs? In these incredibly tough budget times, you would think government agencies would be trying to emulate private enterprises and be working extra hard...
