by BHAVAN JAIPRAGAS July 16th, 2010 The People’s Action Party’s official organ Petir garnered two awards at this year’s Magnum Opus awards. In its seventh year, the Magnum Opus award recognises writers, editors, designers, and…
by BHAVAN JAIPRAGAS May 10th, 2010 The Straits Times Forum editor Yap Koon Hong has told opposition politician Chee Soon Juan that he would be denied space in the Forum pages until he withdrew his…
April 29th, 2010 At the end of his eight-day visit to Singapore, United Nations official Githu Muigai criticised the Republic’s limits on free speech. “It is absolutely necessary in a free society that restrictions on…
April 29th, 2010 The government has denied allegations that Al Jazeera International was removed from Singapore screens because of the news channel’s critical reports on Singapore. Replying to a question in Parliament, Acting Minister for…
April 28th, 2010 Nominated MP Viswa Sadasivan, who used to cover elections for Singapore’s national broadcaster in his first career as a current affairs television producer, said in Parliament that the “cooling off” period should…
April 23rd, 2010 Singaporeans For Democracy has told the visiting UN Special Rapporteur on Racism that the situation here is less harmonious than the government makes it out to be. The group, spearheaded by activist…
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by WONG KAN SENG April 16th, 2010 Extract from the speech by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng at the Internal Security Department Intelligence Service Promotion Ceremony, 14 April 2010….
by CHERIAN GEORGE March 30th, 2011 There’s an old saying, attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, that goes something like, “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” There’s an older and more famous saying, “Thou shall not…
by CHERIAN GEORGE March 26th, 2010 Critics have called Singapore’s leaders dictators and gotten away with it. But, there’s another d-word that the government has zero tolerance for: dynasty. Ever since Lee Hsien Loong was…