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Budget should be more inclusive, change workplace culture to boost productivity, NMP says
Mar. 5 | By Wong Chun Han Singapore’s Budget 2010 fails to address concerns of lower-income Singaporeans, while cultural and societal attitudes need to be adjusted for the productivity drive to work, Nominated Member of Parliament Viswa Sadasivan said Tuesday. “The...
Talking Point(s) with NMP Viswa Sadasivan
Nov. 9 | Gangasudhan with contribution from Ravi Philemon >> TOC Review TOC caught up with Nominated Member of Parliament Mr Viswa Sadasivan who discussed his views in a candid chit-chat session TV personality, CEO, consultant, trainer and now NMP, Viswa...
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,...
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...
That speech – highfalutin, over-analysed? Or the hopes of a nation?
Aug. 25 | After all the reaction, condemnation and praise, what is it that NMP Viswa Sadasivan said in Parliament about the Pledge that was so controversial? We hope you will take another look at the following videos of Mr Viswa’s speech again – and decide...
Once upon a time in Singapore
Aug. 24 | KJ Fulfilling the ideals of the Pledge that we hold so dearly is also a brazen act of high treason. No wonder then, we dare not pledge ourselves too seriously. There was a time not too long ago, when we clenched our fists upon our hearts, and pledged...
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...
The Singapore of our National Pledge
Aug. 21 | Choo Zheng Xi / Editor-at-Large / New York The Singapore we know will change. This revelation wasn’t immediately apparent to me, reading reports of this Parliamentary session’s debate. A continent away, the anger and helplessness I felt at our Finance...
MM Lee brings the House “back to earth”
Aug. 20 | Minister Mentor’s speech in Parliament on Wednesday, 19 August. Video source: Channel NewsAsia. Watch Part Two below.
S’pore’s political system – Minister takes issue with Sadasivan’s criticism
Aug. 20 | Singapore’s political system was a point of contention in Parliament on Wednesday. Education Minister, Dr Ng Eng Hen took issue with NMP Viswa Sadasivan’s criticism in the latter’s maiden speech made on Tuesday. Dr Ng Eng Hen: Let me be unequivocal...
