By Andrew Loh ‘It is very sad when your principal doesn’t have faith in you and will not give you a chance.’ – Student from school...
By Andrew Loh This Sunday at the Allson Hotel at Victoria Street, members of The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will head a public forum calling for...
By Choo Zheng Xi I’m completely unashamed to admit that watching Barack Obama give his Iowa Caucus victory speech sent shivers down my spine and made...
MM Lee’s defence of Suharto irrational
HDB compromises with Mdm Lee. Update: Reprieve for ex-hawker by TODAY, Jan 15. By Andrew Loh “If you had a mother who’s been working all her...
By Leong Sze Hian A close friend whom I have known for about 20 years, a 75 year-old widow, has received a registered letter from the...
Where is the graciousness in govt?
By Gerald Giam Last night (this morning actually), I wrote a post commenting about the article, Discount ads on taxis illegal: LTA, which appeared in the...
By Terence Lee for theonlinecitizen Who would have known that in a brightly-lit street along Clarke Quay, an old trishaw driver would attain near-celebrity status when...
Riz Khan of Al Jazeera hosts a panel of 6 university students from the city-state of Singapore. They discuss their country’s restrictions on many freedoms for...
Special blog feature: By Yawning Bread Leong Sze Hian devours numbers like almost no one I know. Recently, he noticed something about healthcare costs and subsidies...
By Leong Sze Hian 77% Private sector benchmark = 9 months performance + GDP bonus? I refer to the Public Service Division’s (PSD) reply “Public sector’s...
Singaporean activist, Seelan Palay, is fasting without food for five days (starting at 9am, 31st Dec 2007) outside the Malaysian High Commission in protest against the...
By Jeffrey Leow Not too long ago, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, amid the seemingly rising anti-Singapore sentiments in Australia, the following with regard to the...
By Kamal Mamat Amidst the gloom of inflation and concerns over spiky social issues, one can sense that generally, 2007 has been a positive year for...