Student said plainclothes officers at school, wore T-shirts with ‘Police’ at...
Due to the public outrage over the case of the Benjamin Lim, the fourteen-year-old who was found dead on 26 January at the foot of his flat after apparently jumping down from the 14th floor, both the...
View ArticleFather with dementia, forced to confess to a offence by police
The following experience was submitted to TOC by a member of the public, and as the mentioned case is still under investigation, a couple of details have been omitted for privacy reasons. L recounts...
View ArticleSDP: Ministers’ silence on Benjamin Lim’s suicide troubling
The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), in its latest statement, calls upon the Singapore Government to fully account to members of the public over the incident involving the death of 14-year-old,...
View ArticleReunion: Have you given a thought about our friends at home?
Towkay Tan plans to go on a trip with his family during Chinese New Year, leaving his coffee shop under the care of his employee, Ah Biao, a shop runner from China. But Towkay Tan is not convinced that...
View ArticleSingapore-based carrier, Jetstar adopts Singlish as official customer-facing...
Update: Oh, it's an April Fool's Joke. Singapore-based carrier, Jetstar will be speaking Singlish to individuals based in the city-state. From 31 March 2016, Singapore-based customers who visit...
View ArticleElderly cardboard collector killed by reversing taxi while looking for cardboard
Madam Poh Ah Gin, 78, succumbed to injuries after being hit by a reversing taxi while she was collecting cardboard behind a coffee shop at Block 123 of Bedok North Street 2 on Wednesday (30 March). The...
View ArticleSingapore banks’ outlook downgrade by Moody’s: What it means
By Chris Kuan On 31st March 2016, the credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded the credit outlook of a few banks, namely, DBS, OCBC and UOB to negative. The reason was due to deteriorating credit...
View ArticleThe Bernie Effect: Taking down mainstream media for a new generation of liberals
By Sean Francis Han 6 March, or Super Saturday if you’re following the U.S presidential primaries, was the second major date in the race after primary season kicked off on Super Tuesday. In the wake of...
View ArticleMother of 4-year-old little girl hopes her tragedy can be a lesson for the...
As Taiwan grieved and amidst some vigilante justice for the 4-year-old girl who was decapitated by a deranged male adult, Ms Claire Wang, the mother of the young victim has spoken out against any...
View ArticleJustice isn’t just about blame but also about prevention and collective...
By Ghui The senseless and brutal killing of a 4-year-old girl in Taipei shocked and appalled many across the world. As Taiwan grieved and amidst some vigilante justice, the mother of the young victim...
View ArticleUS nonfarm payrolls beat expectation, Moody’s lowers Singapore banks’ outlook
By Margaret Yang March US nonfarm payrolls increased by 215k, beating market expectations of 205k. The unemployment rate was little changed at 5.0%. New jobs were mainly added in the retail trade,...
View Article10th annivesary of Eco Action day, a call for all to pledge positive actions...
Japanese electronic multinational Ricoh Asia Pacific kicked off the 10th anniversary of its Eco Action Day initiative on last Friday (1 April) with a call for organisations and individuals to pledge...
View Article10 reasons why Dr Chee is the more electable candidate at Bukit Batok SMC...
By Wee Lee Sum I have been keenly following developments to the by-election which I believe will be called in June 2016. After reading several posts from various sources about why the Secretary General...
View ArticleBNPop Songs and Politics: Review of “The Songs We Sang”
By Ng Yi-Sheng I'm not a xinyao fan. I'm one of those jiak kentang, angmoh-ified, xiangjiaoren guys who got a C6 for his Chinese O-Levels on his second try. But I am a dutiful supporter of local...
View ArticleWhy women need to talk about NS
By Dhevy Sivaprakasam Even as commentaries(1) have been written about clear differential treatment between men and women with respect to National Service (NS) in Singapore, women’s attitudes here...
View ArticleMinister of Health: Greatest penalty to staff is the pain and regret of the...
Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Mr Leon Perera asked the Minister for Health in Parliament today; (a) what are the names of the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Ministry staff who have...
View ArticleMaking film stars out of Singapore’s domestic workers
By Rob O'brien The shoestring budget film Remittance depicts the hardship of life in Singapore through its ensemble cast of real life domestic workers. But now they are waiting for its message to reach...
View ArticleCrude Oil facing headwind, euro testing key resistance level
By Margaret Yang Commodities - Crude oil is facing headwind as Saudi Arabia hesitated to commit to freeze production unless Iran agrees to join the output freeze camp. This has brought down the...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Office concerned by ongoing use of death penalty in Singapore
The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) is concerned by the Singapore Court of Appeal’s decision on Tuesday to uphold the death sentence given to Kho Jabing of Malaysia and urges the...
View ArticleInternational Human Rights group, FIDH calls for the halt of Kho Jabing’s...
Statement by FIDH, International Federation for Human Rights Singapore must halt the execution of Malaysian national Kho Jabing and reinstate a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, FIDH said...
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