By Cheryl Marie Tay Dear National Library Board, Before I begin my letter proper, allow me to provide a little relevant background: I’ve noticed that open letters...
By Singapore Armchair Critic So it was reported that last week in Parliament, not even a quarter of our 87 elected Members of Parliament (MPs) were...
By Howard Lee A number of judges for the Singapore Literature Prize have resigned from the judging panel in response to the National Library Board’s recent...
By Lim Jialiang One common narrative that we have heard constantly from those in the pro-banning camp is that this is in line with the “dominant social...
You might have heard of the maternity package which the Finnish government gives out to all expectant mothers in Finland, but do you know what the...
The National Library Board (NLB) has withdrawn only three books “as a result of customer feedback”, the library insisted. A Straits Times report which had claimed...
By Benedict Chong The recent removal of two books from the shelves of all libraries administered by the National Library Board (NLB) resulted in much furore from...
The ASEAN Counter-Terrorism (CT) Workshop, organised by the Home Team Academy (HTA), will be held in Singapore from Tuesday, 15 July 2014 to Thursday, 17 July 2014. 28...
By Saiful Saleem The religions that have perdured are the ones that have succeeded in transmitting their message across time and spaces, instead of merely communicating...
The Lee Hsien Loong Government has been terrible in providing leadership on the gay issue. Its pussyfooting stance on the anti-gay sex law, for example, is...
By Nathan Bullock More often than not, Singaporean academicians are woefully absent and silent in the spaces and face of oppression and violence. The most recent...
Madam Ramasamy Krishnama was warded in June last year at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) following a heart attack she had had. About a month later,...
A police report has been lodged with regards to the hoax letter purportedly from the president of Singapore in which he declared 14 July to be...
More than a thousand individual turned up at Hong Lim Park to attend the second Central Provident Funds (CPF) protest held on 12th July 2014. This...
By Saiful Saleem The sixth annual pro-LGBT Pink Dot event that took place a few weeks ago was marked by unprecedented vilification by certain religious leaders...