Latest: Alan Shadrake visited the Gleneagles hospital on Saturday. TOC understands he has been advised to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours starting Tuesday as...
The UK-based directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor of the community project, TIONG BAHRU, a short film starring over 150 volunteers from Singapore, talk about the...
Khairulanwar Zaini ‘Our glory days were behind us but our excess was just beginning.’ – Jeanette Winterson Do not blink, friends, because an audacious game of...
Straits Times, 23 June 2010, Page C2 Reporter: Amelia Tan The headlines says: Free YOG Village stay for 200 boys But the report says: “The ‘stay...
The following is an email which was sent to Ms Saw Phaik Hwa, CEO of SMRT Corporation, on 1 July 2010. As of 23 July, we...
From Radio Australia: [Listen to the podcast on the website] A British author arrested in Singapore while promoting his book on executions in the island republic,...
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...