By Leong Sze Hian – The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has launched a new initiative to help security firms to recruit housewives and retirees. They will...
By Leong Sze Hian – Joshua Chiang, the former Chief Editor of theonlinecitizen alerted me to the following population data. PRs and new citizens dropped Between...
By Tan Jee Say – What does DPM Tharman's speech to NTU students last Wednesday tell us about the quality of PAP leadership? He had said...
PRESS RELEASE Please note that HRH The Duke of Cambridge delivered the following speech this evening at the Welcome Dinner hosted by President Tony Tan at...
By Dr Yuen Chung Kwong Few people would profess to be communists today. As everyone knows, communism brutalized and impoverished nations; perhaps even more importantly as...
PRESS RELEASE Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Mr Goh Chok Tong have indicated that they will accept my offer of composition of $30,000 to annul my...
By Yee Jenn Jong – Mr Speaker, I like to add my suggestions for reforms to the child care industry even as the government is looking...
By Edmund Lim – With reference to Grant for Low-Income Housholds Enhanced, see here and here. The Additional CPF Housing Grant (AHG) and Enhanced Grant Scheme,...
By Lina Chiam – Senior Parliamentary Secretary Ms Sim Ann has spoken of online comments which ‘spew hate and prejudice against individuals or groups’. She urged...
By Leong Sze Hian – I refer to the article "Social spending – where will money come from?" (Straits Times, Sep 4). How much total...
By Choo Zheng Xi/Consultant Editor – It was a jarringly dissonant quote, presented on page 8 of the Sunday Times by reporter Goh Chin Lian quoting...
By Kumaran Pillai – In a rare show of solidarity, a grassroots member of the ruling elite had a “conversation” at the SDP’s Malay forum to...
By Leong Sze Hian – I refer to the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) reply “Increased subsidies help offset fee hikes: MOH” (Straits Times, Sep 4) to...
By Dr Yuen Chung Kwong Singapore’s official social philosophy has always placed emphasis on self reliance, fearing that that welfare provisions might encourage undesirable patterns of behavior,...
By Walter Jayandran – Call me a skeptic, but I doubt this invitation to Singaporeans to participate in a conversation will be a useful exercise. In...