~by: Ravi Philemon~ According to Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao, the Commissioner of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), Mr Peter Lim, is under suspension for nearly...
~by: Joshua Chiang~ Following an event at Speakers’ Corner last Sunday to mark Yong Vui Kong’s 24th birthday, TOC has received more than 150 overseas letters...
~by: Jewel Philemon~ According to Today newspaper the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) will invest around 189 million yuan (S$38 million) in Li Ning a...
~by: Kirsten Han~ Today (20 January 2012) we’ve received wonderful news: the Malaysian Court of Appeal has set aside Atiqah’s death sentence, replacing it with 12 years...
~by: Ravi Philemon~ “If the annual salary of the Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts is only $500,000, it may pose some problems when he...
~by: Howard Lee~ With the long and extensive debate on ministerial pay – in traditional media, online media, and most recently in Parliament – the last...
~by: C L Cheong~ From time to time a spate of flash floods would trigger off public concern and debate for a while. While newspaper reports...
~by: Tan Yin Hoe~ The Ministerial salary issue, says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, should not be just about the amount of money. That is precisely...
~by: Ellery Aruldoss~ It was in a packed seminar room in Singapore Management University (SMU) that ONE (SINGAPORE) held its forum on ‘Child Prostitution, Human Trafficking...
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~by: Ravi Philemon~ Many Singaporeans, I believe, will agree that Ministers should be free from undue financial distractions and so, in general would not begrudge the...
~by: Leong Sze Hian~ I refer to the article “Mobility in S’pore ‘higher than previously thought'” (Today, Jan 13). It states: Having poor or less-educated fathers...
~by: Teo Soh Lung~ The recent decision in the motion filed by M Ravi, lawyer for Ramalingam Ravinthran complaining that in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion,...
the following is a brief report of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’a speech in Parliament today on Ministerial salaries: — Speaking in Parliament today, PM Lee...
~by: Siew Kum Hong~ The Straits Times ran a story on PAP MPs’ rebuttals of Mr Chen Show Mao’s speech on ministerial salaries. [note: the ST story is completely...