Your candidate: Yee Jenn Jong – A life of service
If you thought Yee Jenn Jong only started serving the community after entering politics, you would be way off the mark. Mr Yee, a Workers’ Party (WP) member who became…
View ArticleJeannette Chong-Aruldoss launches Mountbatten Manifesto
Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss, the Singapore People’s Party (SPP) candidate for Mountbatten SMC, on Monday launched her manifesto for Mountbatten, outlining her plans for the constituency should she be...
View ArticleYet another reason why GE2015 will be important beyond Sept 11
By Sherman Tang That GE2011 and GE2015 are “watershed” elections are claims repeated ad nauseum. Here is an attempt to explain why from the point of electoral politics—beyond the fact that…
View ArticlePAP vs SPP: When folksy politics works its slow charm
By Howard Lee “43 percent!” Benjamin Pwee whispered emphatically to opposition stalwart Chiam See Tong, as the duo stood outside Deyi Secondary School following the announcement of results for Bishan…
View ArticleIndependent candidate, Tan Lam Siong backs out from 3 cornered fight at...
Former National Solidarity secretary general and independent candidate, Tan Lam Siong, has announced on his blog that he will not be contesting Potong Pasir SMC. This means there will not…
View ArticleTwitter sees sharp jump in #GE2015 chatter
The number of tweets including the #GE2015 hashtag spiked the day Parliament was dissolved and the Writ of Election issued, reaching a high of 61 tweets per minute, Twitter revealed…
View Article#GE2015: Top 10 tweets, 24 – 31 August 2015
With news, opinions, comments, satire and jokes everywhere on Twitter, the top 10 tweets of the past week give us a glimpse at what people are talking about when it…
View ArticlePAP candidate’s clenched fist gesture offends and is criticised
At the Raffles Institution Nomination Centre on Tuesday, People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate, Ng Eng Hen, gave a speech after his team had submitted its nomination forms and was declared…
View ArticleFirst-class voters, not first-world parliament: GE2015 panel discussion
By Thian Si Ying The SMU Apolitical team held a book launch event on 31 August for its second publication titled “A Guide to General Elections in Singapore (GE 2015…
View ArticleHelp build a balanced Parliament: Low Thia Khiang
The Workers’ Party’s Secretary-General, Low Thia Khiang, has urged Singaporeans to help build a balanced Parliament. Mr Low made the call in a message posted on the WP website on…
View Article#GE2015 Day 1 Diary: TOC volunteers share impressions of Nomination Day
Singaporeans volunteering for The Online Citizen during the general election period spread out across the country on Tuesday to be present at all nine primary schools designated to be nomination…
View ArticleBehind the man – through her eyes
On Tuesday, filmmaker Tay Bee Pin released the following short film on the wife of Dr Chee Soon Juan. Dr Chee is the Secretary General of the Singapore Democratic Party.…
View ArticleLawrence Wong revives old accusations against Chee
In a Channel Newsasia forum on television on Tuesday night, just hours after candidates for the general election had filed their nomination papers, a People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate unsheathed…
View ArticlePointers for General Election 2015
The below is a letter sent into TOC by one of our readers By David Deng I remember once how Dr Ng Eng Hean wanted to sue a professor to…
View ArticlePAP Top Echelon Reads The Online Citizen?
By Masked Crusader On 21 January this year, following the Prime Minister’s statement that the People’s Action Party would field around 24 new candidates in the General Election, The Online…
View ArticleThe unheard heroines
The letter below was sent in by one of TOC’s readers By a single mother As the nation’s getting ready for the upcoming GE, touching on topics/concerns on ever-rising cost…
View ArticleGE is a time to talk about heritage and quality of life.
By Wong Chee Meng Finally, it is happening. The issue of heritage protection may potentially become a political issue in Singapore with GE2015, now that WP has included the importance…
View ArticleOpen letter to Law Minister over comments on Islamisation
The letter below was sent by one of TOC’s readers addressing Mr K Shanmugam who was the Minister of Law and Foreign Affairs before Parliament was dissolved last month. TOC…
View ArticleGE issues – Choosing between track record and a new vision
By Ghui Now that Nomination Day has come and the candidates for each constituency have been announced, the real hustings can begin. Even before the polling date was announced, husting…
View ArticleModelling the 2015 Singapore General Election
By Vernon Chan In a very accessible article, Jeraldine Phneah writes about the advantages the People’s Action Party has over the opposition in Singapore. Note that several of the advantages…
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