Breaking: AGC files complaint against M Ravi
The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) has filed a complaint against human rights lawyer M Ravi for releasing court documents to the media with respect to three cases. In a letter sent to the Law...
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Chinese national jailed 8 weeks for assaulting cabby
Chinese national Feng Jia Cheng, 23, has been sentenced to eight weeks in jail for assaulting a taxi driver in October 2012. Feng, a club singer holding a work pass then, had placed his friend who was...
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M’sia Airlines denies that families were flown to India
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has rejected rumours that some families of the passengers who were on the missing flight MH370 were flown from Beijing to India instead of Malaysia. The rumour, which...
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The browning of Singapore – time to step up
“From our latest water demand figures,” Dr Vivian [Balakrishnan] said last Friday, “we are currently consuming about 420 million gallons a day. Now if the demand figure continues to increase then...
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Third world problems in first world S’pore: Low Thia Khiang
On Wednesday, the Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC and secretary-general of the Workers’ Party, Low Thia Khiang, raised the issue of Singapore’s hospital bed crunch which had been in the news...
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Shop tenants help to suppress fire at Rochor Centre before SCDF arrives
A fire broke out at a ground floor shop unit in Rochor Centre at around yesterday (Thursday) Mr Soe sent in the photos which he took at the scene and shared that the fire originated from the shop near...
View ArticleDifficult to help those needy with other reasons
By Leong Sze Hian Minister of Social and Famil Development, Chan Chun Sing said in Parliament on Thursday that every case of a down-and-out Singaporean that appears on social media or in the...
View ArticleThe right to information and an accountable public service
By Howard Lee The Parliamentary exchange between Low Thia Khiang from the Worker’s Party and Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong on the public’s right of access to Cabinet...
View Article10Q – Project LUWAK SG: Putting some serious shit in your cuppa
By Howard Lee How much would you pay to have faeces in your coffee? $35? $100? Or maybe, the life of an innocent animal that is forced to eat only coffee beans to fuel a lucrative novelty trade? TOC...
View ArticleMalaysia PM confirms that plane turned around and turned off its...
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak addressed the press on the incident of the missing MH370 plane of the Malaysia Airlines. He confirmed that the MH370 did in fact turn around based on primary...
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Neither overflowing with laughter nor “misery city”
By Andrew Loh “It will be a fascinating city, competitive yet compassionate, busy and yet with time to enjoy friendships and recreation. It will be a nation overflowing with laughter, confidence,...
View ArticleCollective appeal by animal welfare organizations to review the case of...
A total of ten animal welfare groups (AWGs) submitted an open letter to Minister of Defence, Dr Ng Eng Hen and Minister of National Development, Mr Khaw Boon Wan to ask for the case of alleged animal...
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Blue Is The Warmest Colour: The film that took Cannes Film Festival by storm
By Yasmeen Banu Blue Is The Warmest Colour, released in France last year in October is scheduled to be released here in Singapore this May. Starring Léa Seydouz (Midnight in Paris) and Adéle...
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Gov’t has “stabilised” income inequality, says Lawrence Wong
While Singapore’s measure of income inequality has “fallen”, and remains “high for a country”, it is however “not high for a city”, says Acting Minister of Culture, Community and Youth, Lawrence Wong....
View ArticleHistory’s lessons on granting secrecy to governments
By Jeremy Chen During a March 10, 2014 sitting of Parliament, Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang, said, “Mdm, in many democratic countries with advanced social and economic...
View ArticleIntegrated Schools with No PSLE?
In a recent speech by the Workers’ Party earlier this month, Mr. Yee Jenn Jong brought up the topic of integrated schools and urged MOE to “study the feasibility to pilot” schools that let children go...
View ArticleDo you live in Misery City?
“We got on with life on the immaculate island, where social housing estates look like spotless toy towns, crime is pretty much non-existent and you can get a delicious bowl of noodles for $3 (£1.50)....
View ArticleNo pay rise for 1 out of 3 workers
By Leong Sze Hian On March 18, Ministry of Finance released a press release, “Employers to Receive First Tranche of Wage Credit Scheme Payouts by End March 2014“. It said that over 74,000 employers...
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Foreigners working illegally in S’pore – MOM keeps a “closed eye”?
The phenomenon of foreigners working in blue collar jobs in Singapore while on social visit passes is an issue which some have observed and raised previously. In 2009, The Online Citizen highlighted...
View ArticleNo intention to sue organisers of the Singaporean Songkran Festival
By Tiffany Gwee Contrary to some news reports, the Thai Ministry of Culture has no intention of suing the organisers of the upcoming Singaporean Songkran Festival that is supposed to take place for two...
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