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...
By Ganga England play Slovenia tonight in their final group stage game at World Cup 2010 and they desperately need to win in order to have...
The following article is inspired by Mr Anand A. Vathiyar’s letter to the Straits Times on 8 June 2010 (please see below). Kirsten Han – Singapore’s...
I refer to the report “Workers, HR experts expect wage increases of 3-5%” (Channel NewsAsia, May 25). It states that “After weathering one of the worst global...
A comprehensive study released today by the International Harm Reduction Association finds that hundreds of people are executed for drug offences each year around the world,...
While the death penalty and other tough measures like caning may seem barbarous to many, I feel as deterrents to serious crimes they have few equals....
“And I think censorship takes many, many forms. It may not be as blatant as cutting your words but they certainly give you a rating, which...
I refer to the report “State funeral for former DPM Goh Keng Swee” (Channel News Asia, May 14). When former President Wee Kim Wee passed away...
Singapore, as Jolene mentions and writer Catherine Lim has argued, is a fiercely patriarchal society, headed by the patriarch-in-chief Lee Kuan Yew. Jolene continues: I suspect that for...
The hard edges of Singapore’s rules and attitudes need to be softened in the face of the spectacle of people living along beaches. The root of...