Welcome to the first episode of the second series of the SDP's Let's Talk, a face-to-face interview programme with members of our community whose work is...
PRESS RELEASE During the Rio+20 United Nations Conference in June 2012, world leaders identified the need to promote sustainable patterns of consumption and production. The 18th...
By Vincent Law – I refer to the report "do more to help Malay drug abusers, urges MP" on August 17. Although there were more Malay...
By Leong Sze Hian – Record pawn shop loans According to the Department of Statistics’ Monthly Digest of Statistics Singapore June 2012, pawn shop loans increased...
By TR EMERITUS – Recently, Kishore Mahbubani, the dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, wrote an Opnion piece entitled...
By Jolovan Wham – In the last few months, I have been approached by over one hundred migrant Chinese women and men who are...
By Kumaran Pillai – Kumaran Pillai, the Chief Editor of The Online Citizen spoke to Dr. James Gomez over the recent announcement that Singaporeans For Democracy’s...
By Atticus – Do you need to be prosecuted under an unconstitutional law before you have the required legal standing to challenge it? After deliberating for...
PRESS RELEASE Dear All, IN THE MATTER OF KENNETH JEYARETNAM & THE IMF LOAN COMMITMENT ORIGINATING SUMMONS NO. 657 OF 2012 With reference to the...
The below is the blog post posted by Duck & Hippo after the company lost the tender to a new start up water taxi company, Singapore...
By Ravi Philemon – I refer to the letter by Alex Chiang (link), where Mr Chiang writes 'we should also expect our parliamentarians to put aside...
By TR EMERITUS – You know there was this hooha on Ministry of Manpower and their ergonomic chairs right? [Link to story] In short, they “spent...
By Leong Sze Hian – I refer to the article “Many low-wage workers prefer cash plus CPF mix” (Straits Times, Aug 11). Only 14% prefer...
By BBC/Katia Moskvitch – A new high-speed undersea data cable has opened to traffic in Asia. The 7,800km Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) connects Japan, Malaysia, Singapore...
By Leong Sze Hian – Madam Ang (not her real name) is 57 years old, and works as a tea lady in an office. She stays...