Jail As A Positive Experience
In 1961, Nelson Mandela realized that non-violent measures in protest of the South African governmentās policy of apartheid would not be successful, and formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a militant wing...
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The End Game Is Near
The outside world may have awaited anxiously for the outcome of the court case yesterday - including The Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and International Business Times - but we who...
View ArticleDumb Moves And Smart Moves
On April 23, 1985, the Coca-Cola Company took arguably the biggest risk in consumer goods history by announcing that it was changing the formula for the world's most popular soft drink. And spawned an...
View ArticleColourful Language
We once had a colleague who never used a swear word in his whole 40 years on earth. When he got really angry, it was like, what the fish. For minor disasters, the strongest utterance was, "Oh, sugar!"...
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The Greying Prison Population
This is the kind of statistics that set you wondering. Of the convicted penal inmate population languishing in Singapore jails, some 27.7 percent are aged 51 and older as of 31 December 2014, a...
View ArticleMocking God
Whilst a graduate student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Jason Rosenhouse was surprised when his active Christian friends were uninterested in accompanying him to hear the famous evangelist...
View ArticleHard Talks About Singapore
It was not the kind of soft balls lobbed by a compliant press that Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was accustomed to. At the "An Investigative Interview: Singapore 50 years After Independence" segment...
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Betting The Future
Astrologer Joan Quigley claimed in her memoir titled "What Does Joan Say?" that it was a question that the former president habitually asked Mrs Ronald Reagan. In an interview with āCBS Evening Newsā...
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Think About It
The first generation leaders were not afraid of contrarian ideas, and sparring with intellectual equals. For instance Toh Chin Chye, although over ruled, always maintained that health care should be...
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Please Let Them Go
It has to be clearest signal to date that the rare sighting of a member of parliament walking in your neighborhood is imminent. Health Minister and Minister-in-charge of Ageing Issues Gan Kim Yong...
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World Heritage Site Aspirations
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View ArticleFar From The Maddening Crowd
āThe most the police can do is give chase and try to bring (suspects) into custody. Use of deadly force or opening fire is not an option in (roadblock breaches),ā a former officer of the Singapore...
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Special Treatment
When Francis Seow was incarcerated at the Whitley Detention Centre inĀ 1988- at the pleasure of the horrible man - the doctor's concern about his weight prompted his jailer to inquire about his choice...
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A Time For Celebration
Peak season in Hokkaido is usually during February for the snow festival and July autumn for the lavender season. So why did the prime minister decide to go to Japan in summer when Tokyo temperatures...
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Travel Advice
Putting our fate in dumb animalsA friend planning to visit Greece in July - no, he is not one of the ministers rumored to be clearing annual leave for fear of being ousted in the next GE - asked if it...
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Laughter Is The Best Medicine
Kishore Mahbubani (former permanent representative to the UN who told the world "There are no homeless, destitute or starving people in Singapore. Poverty has been eradicated.") once wrote in his...
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Free Money
One has to be blind to miss the sweet young thing (SYT) stationed at the ticketing terminal to help the senior citizen (SC) redeem the $50 Public Transport Voucher.SC: Can you tap the card twice to...
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Man Shoots Cop
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean said the use of any firearm is taken very seriously, and that police are investigating. Nope, he is not referring to the shoot out at...
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Turning The Tables
Even a hustler has lessons to learnIt started when Hollywood studio Voltage Pictures - in the person of Samuel Seow Law Corporation in Singapore - sent out threatening letters of demand to local...
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Caught Between A Rock And a Very Hard Place
On 2 June Amos Yee was sent back into remand for an additional 3 weeks because District Judge Jasvender Kaur wanted more time to contemplate his suitability for the Reformative Training Centre (RTC)....
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