UPDATE 8: Lianhe Wanbao reporter’s tape recording of book launch is believed to have been seized by the police. When contacted by TOC, the reporter –...
Choo Zheng Xi – Alan Shadrake’s book “Once a Jolly Hangman” makes for uncomfortable reading. One case in particular might have made those in power uncomfortable...
On 15 July, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Singapore needed 100,000 foreign workers in the coming year. He said this was “was unavoidable as the...
Choo Zheng Xi – 22-year old Yong Vui Kong might soon be hanged. His neck and spine will be snapped, an effect calculated with precision by...
From Goh Meng Seng’s blog, Singapore Alternatives: There is nothing shameful to admit that I was also an illegal hawker since I was 5 years old,...
Singapore flood – Orchard – June 2010: Singapore flood – July 2010:
Andrew Loh – “Does Singapore have a safe system of equal justice for all? I say no,” Alan Shadrake [picture, left] told the audience at the...
Mr Wu Qing Shun, a photographer with the Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao, was handcuffed by the police for taking flood pictures at Upper Bukit Timah road...
Report from The Straits times. HEAVY rains lashed Singapore early on Saturday morning, uprooting trees and causing flash floods in many area. The affected areas included...
Stephan Ortmann – Along with more than 190 countries, Singapore is represented with its own pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China. Situated between the...
From Gerald Giam’s blog: After a drop of just 4,200 foreigner numbers last year due to the downturn, the PAP’s “open-the-floodgates” immigration policy is back with...
Leong Sze Hian – After adjusting for historical inflation of about two per cent, the annual real wage increase may only be about 0.6 per cent....
Wong Chun Han Hundreds of jobless migrant workers may go hungry as the food aid programme they depend upon could fold due to a lack of...
The Singapore Prison Service has denied access to Ms Ngeow Chow Ying, a Malaysian lawyer representing death row inmate, Yong Vui Kong. Ms Ngeow had requested...
Was Lee Kuan Yew parroting someone else’s remarks – and getting it wrong? “Taiwanese are shameless, Hong Kongers are heartless, Singaporeans are ignorant.” Singaporean columnist Wong...