By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Second shot at ComCare for needy families” (ST, Jan 13), and media reports about the setting up...
By Andrew Ong Much attention has been on Singapore‘s greying population and it will likely remain a perennial national challenge for many years to come. According...
By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the articles “Workfare payout going out to 287,000” (ST, Dec 29), “First Workfare payments to be made on Jan...
By Andrew Loh Chaired by the Singapore Democratic Party chairman, Mr Gandhi Ambalam, the election reform public forum at the Allson Hotel focused on getting Singaporeans...
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...