The following is a letter from a TOC reader on issues raised during Prime Minister’s National Day Rally 2011 speech in English Bill Tng/ I like...
By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the National Day Rally speech about ‘Singaporeans First’ in the universities (“At a glance, key points from Prime...
By Leong Sze Hian What percentage of students in our universities are Singaporeans? Posted by theonlinecitizen on August 16, 2011 I refer to the National Day Rally...
Shawn Danker and Joshua Chiang/ Photos by Shawn Danker Presidential candidate Tan Jee Say asserted that he was not suggesting closing down factories when he proposed...
by: Leong Sze Hian/ I refer to the article “When a charity’s business does too well …“ (ST, Aug 1). It states that “Charity organisation The...
by: Lisa Li/ Without great fanfare, a very important political debate for Singapore took place on 13 August 2011. This two-hour public forum ‘On Politics: A...
Joshua Chiang/ “Candidates should run for the office that exists, not the one they wish to have,” Presidential hopeful Dr Tony Tan If the past two...
Bhavan Jaipragas/ The Council of Presidential Advisers’s fundamental role is to advise and make recommendations to the president on certain key issues. Wee Kim Wee was the first president...
TOC takes to the streets to ask Singaporeans about what they would like to see in the President. (Scroll down to watch youtube video)
by: Ravi Philemon/ In his National Day Rally speech in Mandarin today, the Prime Minister asked the young people who grew up in the Internet age...
by: Ghui/ The issue of “foreign talents” has been hogging the news of late for all the wrong reasons. Tensions have run so high that every...
by: Teo Soh Lung/ Dr Ang Swee Chai, a prominent surgeon and author of From Beirut to Jerusalem has now written about her arrest and detention...
The following is an excerpt from an article first published in Asiaweek in 1999 In choosing Ong as its first candidate back in 1993, the government...
Joshua Chiang/ “I don’t wake up everyday trying to figure out how to mess up your lives,” Member of Parliament BG Tan Chuan Jin told the...
by: Deborah Choo/ This article was first published in ‘Lady in the mirror‘. We thank Deborah for allowing TOC to reproduce it in full here. —...