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Manpower director makes incredible claims about how well migrant workers are...
On 18 March 2014, Mr Kevin Teoh, the Divisional director of MOM’s foreign manpower management division, testified at the Committee of Inquiry into the riot in Little India in December. Mr Teoh made...
View ArticleFive notes from The Malayan Forum
By Sudhir Thomas Vadeketh Sudhir is the authour of the book “Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore” an was an editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit. He is currently...
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Lesson from MH370: “Go easy on the anti-foreigner” rhetoric, says ST editor
In his piece for the Straits Times over the weekend, Warren Fernandez made a pitch for Singaporeans to “go easy” on the “anti-foreigner ‘Singaporean first’ rhetoric” which he says “has become so...
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Time to understand S’pore’s history in all its complexity
Hong Lysa On 10 March 2014 Workers’ Party leader and MP for Aljunied GRC Low Thia Kiang raised a question in parliament on the National Archives of Singapore (NAS) and called for the adoption of a...
View ArticleCommissioner of Police: “There is a hint of lawlessness in Geylang”
By Yasmeen Banu On the 25th of March, the third week into the Committee of Inquiry for the Little India Riot, Police Commissioner Ng Joo Hee said that although the riot did happen in Little India,...
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Scamming the system – under the noses of MOM
By Andrew Loh When Workers’ Party (WP) Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC, Low Thia Khiang, asked in Parliament in January about foreigners working illegally in Singapore, he was raising a problem...
View ArticleLack of resources by Singapore Police to tackle increase in foreign workers
By Tiffany Gwee According to Commission of Police Mr. Ng Joo Hee in Tuesday’s Committee of Inquiry (COI) hearing, the Police lack the resources to tackle the increase in population and the potential...
View ArticleProtection of whistle blowers and filing of civil suits suggested for...
By Yasmeen Banu Over the years, Singapore has dealt with reoccurring haze situations and managed to get past it. The city state has been affected by haze resulting from land or forest fires in...
View ArticleSSC Lacklustre Commitment to Groom Local Talents
By Irene Choo The recent string of bad press about Singapore Sports Council (SSC)’s nonchalant attitude towards our home grown elite athletes may be just the tip of “indifference iceberg”, and a...
View ArticleNo accountability of public funds used by Temasek Holdings for philanthropic...
By Leong Sze Hian Temasek Holdings announced on Monday that it is setting up a new endowment fund to commemorate its 40th anniversary and will be putting S$40 million into the Temasek Emergency...
View ArticleData protection more critical than online controls
By Ghui The World Wide Web is perhaps the singular biggest game changer in the 20th century. From online shopping to bill paying, banking and as a source for breaking news, the internet has permeated...
View ArticleMothership.sg accedes to MDA’s request to be registered
In a statement on Thursday, the Media Development Authority (MDA) said it had notified Project Fisher-Men Pte Ltd, a social enterprise on March 27 that its website, Mothership.sg is to be registered...
View ArticlePhilippines theater group to stage play about S’poreans & Lee Kuan Yew
Earlier this year, it was announced there are going to be two separate musicals on former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. It has now appeared that one of the plays will be staged by a Philippine theatre...
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That SAFRA ad – vehemently objectionable or not a big deal?
Jewel Philemon for Online/Offline- SAFRA’s widely-ridiculed gym advertisement ended its run yesterday. The advertisement met harsh criticism over its depiction of women as “healthy distractions” to men...
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Sunflowers Uniting Taiwan
By Lee Yi-tze, Photo by REUTERS/Toby Chang No one could have expected that the events of March 18th could be so powerful, and so alarming to Taiwan’s governing Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) administraton. The...
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S’pore’s thirst for sand again in the news
A Myanmar news outlet has reported that the country’s export of sand to Singapore is causing serious environmental degradation to the source country. Eleven, the news outlet, reported on Wednesday, 2...
View ArticleOf Faculties Foreign and Local
By Ian Chong In all honesty, I find the current attention on the proportion of foreign faculty in Singapore a little curious. My general observation is that few universities have faculty members from...
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Let NSFs sit on trains. Here are 3 reasons why.
By Sudo Nyme I’m writing to refute a Lye Khuen Way’s opinion on why NSmen in uniform should stand in crowded trains. I first saw this on my Facebook wall, and to be very honest, I’d initially thought...
View ArticleShould male Singaporeans suffering from Schizophrenia serve national service?
By Dr. Ang Yong Guan This write up first appeared as a status update on Dr. Ang’s facebook account. Updated on 9th April with additional notes. Private Ganesh Pillay Magindren, aged 23, who suffered...
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“Dangerous general assumptions to have”
By Terry Xu The second hearing of the coroner’s report to establish the causes behind the death of National Serviceman Private (Pte) Ganesh Pillay Magindren, 23, took place at the State court on last...
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