The following article is published by Stratfor Global Intelligence on 14 February, 2011. By George Friedman On Feb. 11, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned. A military council...
by Howard Lee Much seems to have been said recently about the effectiveness of our baby bonus scheme, and all indications of our total fertility rate...
The Singapore economy is near breaking point and cannot be sustained going forward without society tearing apart, says a former government economic planner who has just...
by Joseph Teo In the Straits Times, 12 February 2011, an article by Rachel Chang and Andrea Ong titled “Wrestling with the beast – again” was...
By Ravi Philemon On 18 September 2010, the Ang Mo Kio – Yio Chu Kang GRC’s Facebook page was launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...
The Reform Party (RP) announced on 10 February 2011 the addition of a new member, Mr Gilbert Goh. TOC catches up with Mr Goh to find...
By Lisa Li Crammed into Post-Museum’s exhibition space, the crowd kept shifting their chairs in to accomodate more and more people–eventually, about 70 people turned up...
by Leong Sze Hian I refer to the Key Household Income Trends 2010 report released by the Department of Statistics, on 14 February. Income increase only...
by Leong Sze Hian Malaysia’s former prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir said recently that Malaysia’s balanced growth was better than Singapore’s higher growth. (“Dr M: Malaysia’s...
The following article was sent to The Straits Times’s forum but was not published. I refer to the report ‘Non-grad parents, but they made it to...
Seven years after she left the country, a Singaporean lady was contacted by the Central Provident Fund (CPF) to settle her outstanding Medisave contribution or face...
By Deborah Choo Legend has it that St. Valentine was a Catholic bishop who lived under the reign of Claudius II in Rome. Claudius believed that...
In a follow-up to Flying Cheap, the hard-hitting investigation into major airlines’ outsourcing of flights to obscure regional airlines, award-winning investigative documentary series FRONTLINE and the Investigative...
A Valentine’s Day tribute to my lovely wife, Doris Lau Siew Lang “The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are...
by Joshua Chiang On Nomination Day for the 2006 General Elections, PAP candidate and Chairman of Yayasan Mendaki Dr Yaacob Ibrahim declared there would be no...