By: Ng Yi Shu The Online|Offline forum on the SMRT strike, the second so far (since the Think Centre forum on the 9th of December), focused...
By: Ng Yi Shu (photo: Workfair) The recent SMRT strikes have led to a series of responses, culminating in two forums – one by Think Centre...
Ghui Former President SR Nathan recently said that: “the role of Singapore’s president cannot be defined easily or clearly”. He also alluded to the fact that...
By Dan Lim Can any real change come out from the Singapore Conversations initiative to engage the concerns of the people and the problem that Singapore...
By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the report “Public transport fare adjustments to take into account bus drivers’ wage increase” (Channel NewsAsia, Dec 6). It...
This is a translation of forum post began by free planet go (自由世界go), now recognized as He Jun Ling, on Baidu’s forum tieba.baidu.com. Mr He was...
By Terry Xu Our insider source informs TOC that the strike was not a pre-meditated action by the workers but started by a few drivers who...
by: Ng Yi Shu This chart, as we might now be familiar with, shows the root cause of what the current SMRT fiasco is about. It...
By Dr R G Eli The recent Gallup/Bloomberg article re Singaporeans and their purported lack of feeling provides excellent motivation for some careful thinking…..(“Singapore Confronts An Emotional Deficit”...
TOC Editorial Despite the best attempts of the over-cautious mainstream media, the significance of Monday’s strike by over 102 Chinese workers (initial news reports mentioned...
By Howard Lee Strike – to cease work collectively as a protest against working conditions, low pay, etc (www.thefreedictonary.com/strike) It is interesting to note the headlines...
If you are a frequent commuter on the North-South and East-West Lines, you should have noticed for a few months now a new announcement made when...
By Gerald Tan Strike strikes Singapore! A strike is defined by Section 5 of the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act (“CLTPA”), to mean “the cessation of...
By Choo Zheng Xi/ Consultant Editor Yale lecturer Jim Sleeper’s provocatively titled column in the Huffington Post didn’t quite deliver. Captioned: “Blame the Latest Israel-Arab War...
By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “So, what’s the true cost of casinos?” (Straits Times, Nov 17). How many visit casinos? It states that...