The following article is published by blog Diary of A Singaporean Mind on 6 February 2011. Leong Sze Hian recently wrote a letter to the Straits...
Bought too much Chinese New Years goodies and not knowing what to do with them? Rather than discarding these items, why not drop them off at...
MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release 29 January 2011 MARUAH’s View of the Police Investigations into SFD Members’ Sale of Death Penalty Book MARUAH notes the statement...
BANGKOK, Feb 4, 2011 (IPS) – A young Malaysian’s legal battle to escape the hangman’s noose in Singapore is finding new hope. “He has a 50-50...
This article was first published at this blog. by Siew Kum Hong I was a little bemused (and later amused) to see a letter in ST...
The following is a letter sent to us by a TOC reader who also writes at his blog. Professor Lee Wei Ling’s report two Sundays back,...
The following is an excerpt of an article from Asia Times Online. By Muhammad Cohen HONG KONG – What do you call a country that takes...
by Pritam Singh Earlier this week, Yahoo! Singapore ‘Fit to Post’ (FTP) published an article that generated in excess of 900 user comments within 24 hours....
by Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Muslims can be both religious and patriotic” (ST, Jan 30). It states that “Dr Yaacob was speaking...
by Davin Ng This is an addendum to my previous post on “Income Inequality & How to Not Fix It”. There has been a lot of...
Unless you’ve been living on the dark side of the moon, you must’ve known that we have been gazetted! (or, as some prefer, ‘cassetted’) The news...
by Leong Sze Hian I refer to the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) “Employment Situation in Fourth Quarter 2010” report released on 31 January. It states that...
The following article first appeared in Reinventing the Rice Bowl Why cooling measures and subsidies offer no solutions to rising prices and declining fertility by Kenneth...
by Leong Sze Hian On 29 January, the Ministry of Health (MOH) organised a dialogue with the Health Minister, with Mayor Dr Amy Khor as the moderator....
by Davin Ng The spectre of income inequality (“the rich get richer, the poor get poorer”) has never been greater in recent years. This is not...