~by: Donaldson Tan~ Nuclear energy first gained public attention in Singapore when the Economic Strategy Committee (ESC) rallied the government to consider nuclear energy in February...
~by: Yaw Shin Leong/MP for Hougang SMC~ About a week after the lunch I had with an ex-inmate Mr. E, who is also HIV+ (see HERE),...
~by: Kenneth Jeyaretnam/Secretary-General of Reform Party~ The Reform Party welcomes the Prime Minister of Malaysia’s announcement yesterday that Malaysia would be abolishing the ISA and replacing...
~by: Leong Sze Hian~ I refer to the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) Labour Market Second Quarter 2011 report, released on 16 September (see HERE). It states...
MARUAH applauds the decision by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (‘Malaysian PM to scrap ISA’ – ST, September 16, 2011) to repeal the Malaysian Internal...
~Kong Soon Tan/President of Think Centre~ Think Centre (TC), one of Singapore’s oldest political NGO, welcomes and applauds the announcement by the Malaysian government to repeal...
~from Martyn See’s blog~ There are three things you need to know about Singapore. 1. The only political violence that has happened in the last 45...
~The Workers’ Party~ The Workers’ Party notes the Malaysian government’s proposal to repeal the Internal Security Act (ISA). The Workers’ Party manifestos, including the 2011 election...
The Government notes the announcement by Malaysia that it will be replacing its Internal Security Act (ISA) with new legislation aimed at preventing “subversive action, organised...
~by: Leong Sze Hian~ I refer to the increase in the salary thresholds for Employment Passes. How many Employment Passes were given last year? How many...
~by: Ghui~ Malaysia and Singapore, once the same country, have developed side by side over the years. Apart from certain marked differences such as the presence...
~picture: Joshua Chiang~ from The Straits Times dated 3 February 1991: — Singapore will seriously consider abolishing the Internal Security Act if Malaysia were to do...
~by: Ravi Philemon~ “Generally the power to extend detention will shift from the executive to the judiciary”, with these words the Prime Minster of Malaysia Datuk...
~by: Patrick Gallahue/Human Rights Analyst~ A survey of countries that enforce the death penalty for drug offences reveals that in many nations the majority or even...
~by: Jewel Philemon~ National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences announced a public seminar titled ‘Fragmentation and Land Use Change: Impacts on Tropical Forest...