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. —...
The following is an excerpt from ‘4 Tans in Presidential Elections’, a blog entry by Diary of A Singaporean Mind Today, our concerns about our reserves goes...
Tan Jing Quee, historian, writer, poet and lawyer who passed away on 14 June 2011, was the person who has given us, Singaporeans back our history...
by: Neo Swee Lin/ In 1987, 22 people were detained without trial under the ISA under Operation Spectrum – “a security operation which saw 22 young...
by: Ravi Philemon/ I was watching Channel NewsAsia’s (CNA) ‘AM Live!’ and was quite disturbed that CNA kept associating Presidential candidate Tan Jee Say with Singapore...
Leong Sze Hian/ I refer to the article “Seven trade unions endorse Tony Tan: Presidential candidate also holds dialogue with SMCCI members, pays tribute to Malay...
Joshua Chiang/ Law and Foreign Minister K Shanmugam isn’t the ‘ultimate interpreter’ of the Consitution and there are other lawyers equally qualified to speak on the...