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Telling It Like It Is
Just like the National Library prefers to pulp books instead of burning them, the Media Development Authority (MDA) chose to slap a NAR rating (Not Allowed for All Ratings) instead of an outright ban...
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ICA's Hot Potato
Some pictures are really worth a thousand words. The body language of each player could have such a rich story to tell: the immigrant made good (trying hard anyway), the sneering driver going about his...
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Rotten Apples And Rotting Fruit
It was West Virginia University (WVU) who outed the fraudster, Anoop Shankar, former academic at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Shankar did not have a doctorate degree, and he did not...
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Forgive Is Not An Option
First Came The InsultThen The Abject ApologyThis is getting tiresome.The law makers want to jail Singaporean motorists - one whole year behind bars - for using their handset while at the wheel. As if...
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如斯好德如好色的人
The English translation of the subtitle does not quite do it justice ("Because I have not yet seen anyone who puts principles before licentiousness", Chinese: 微臣從沒見過 如斯好德如好色的人), but you get the...
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Thrown Out To Dry
It's no fun being an inventor in Singapore when big brother is out to grab your ideas. Yiap was too trusting in February 2001 when he presented his design for a clothes drying rack system to the...
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Best Left Unseen, Unheard, Unread
peering into the darknesss....... with photoshop magicThe first photographic image accompanies Heng Swee Kiat's Facebook post:"Grateful to Mr Lee for making the time for his former PPSs and some staff...
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Talking Big
During the stopover in Hong Kong, Lee Hsien Loong said that while he is glad the Americans have taken a stand against the Islamic State militant group, Singapore has yet to decide whether or how it...
View ArticleForeigner Bashing
At a dialogue during “The Singapore Summit” conference on 20 Sep 2014 Lee Hsien Loong was reported as saying, “If we just open our doors and say everybody can come, free movement of labour, tomorrow,...
View ArticleSlow Mail Costs More
SingPost announced yesterday that ten million stamps will be given out to 1.4 million households here ahead of a planned increase in postage rates. Each household will receive a free stamp booklet...
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A Bum Deal
The blue noses in Singapore are awfully protective when it comes to what we are allowed to read - no penguins please, we're Singaporeans - and see, to the extent of invoking national security issues...
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The Plot Thickens
One can appreciate the number of foreign construction workers needed in the country, and we are grateful to each and everyone of them for scaling the dizzying heights of tower cranes and scaffoldings...
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Who Do You Trust?
This video is a fascinating documentation of how our vaunted Home Team members earn their pay. Firstly, they seem to like to go about their task incognito. They are obviously not proud of their smart...
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Suffer The Little Children
Don't mix up Hong Lim with Hong KongRight on cue, the mute button was toggled off. Politicians who stood idly by and played dumb for weeks while a 87 year old pioneer generation member was in grave...
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Our Very Own Zapruder Clip
November 22 is just round the corner, boon time for "Who Killed JKF" fans to rehash conspiracy theories. Vincent Bugliosi's 1,632 page "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F...
View ArticleSignificant Damage To Readers' Trust
Leading Japanese daily, the Asahi Shimbun, has been forced into a series of embarrassing admissions over errors it published on the country’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and the use of sex slaves by...
View ArticleDouble Standards
There are two Susan Lims. She is the talented surgeon who performed the first successful liver transplant in Asian history in 1990. You can see her giving a TED talk on "Transplanting Cells, Not...
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The War On Secrets
The Ministry of Home Affairs hosted the 23rd GovernmentWare (GovWare) conference & exhibition event on 23 to 25 September 2014.With the whipping boy of cyber threats in today's connected cyber...
View ArticleWatch His Lips
We don't know what kind of company the prime minister keeps, but contrary to what he imagines, Singaporeans do know what ISIS and ISIL stands for. In case he still thinks cockles are served with mee...
View ArticleIt's A Dog's Life After All
Businessman Lim Soo Seng was fined the maximum S$10,000 for “unreasonably omitting” to bring his female cross-breed dog to the vet for treatment. Under the present Animals and Birds Act, anyone...
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