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Awareness Does Not Reasonate
The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) recently concluded a survey of more than 1,500 Singaporeans carried out between August and October 2014 to explore which are the influential Singapore stories and...
View ArticleThe Slap That Was Heard Around The World
Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin - still trying hard after all these years of OJT - had to comment on the video of a senior citizen being hit by a younger one:"While there can...
View ArticleThe Law On Tape
During the debate on Singapore Budget 2013, Member of Parliament (Aljunied GRC) and ex-police inspector Sylvia Lim proposed that law enforcement agencies should video record sessions whenever police...
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Use Your Hands Campaign
You know election fever is on when even the hearing impaired is roped into the political proselytising. The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf) has produced a series of general election-related...
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Battle Enjoined
"I think the playing field is level, if you do your work on the ground consistently," says the Deputy Prime Minister with the extensible Pinnochio nose. Explain that to Workers' Party's Yee Jenn Jong...
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Bad Behaviour
When TIME's Zoher Adoolcarim and Hannah Beech interviewed Lee Hsien Loong for the "Singapore's Next Story" article (3 August 2015 issue), they did not shy off from asking about the conviction of a...
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Drawn And Quartered
Robert-François Damiens, who attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757, was the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty...
View ArticleHiccups At The Starting Line
Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen thought he could simply call the shots for how the imminent general election would be run when he boasted on Sunday (Jul 26), "No Mr Lee Kuan Yew to tell us what's a...
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The Truth About The Leak
Desperate for an answer, SMRT's Desmond Kuek was obviously clutching at straws when he blamed a heavy downpour the night before July 7 for tripping the sophisticated train system. So obvious that he...
View ArticleDescending From Heaven
After being rebuked by Ng Eng Hen for jumping the gun, Inderjit Singh is now performing to script and doing what the natural aristocrats are demanding. The retiring People’s Action Party (PAP) Member...
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It Starts With A Lie
Jump, Sir? How high, Sir?The official retirement age for commissioned officers in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is 50 years old, up from 45 previously - adjusted in 2009 so that Colonel Ishak Ismail...
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The Man Of The Moment
The first reaction to the news was like, desperate times require desperate measures. "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated ..." was occasioned by erroneous newspaper accounts of Mark...
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The Interview That Never Was
When the camera started rolling as the two walked towards their places for the televised "A Conversation with the PM: Our Future, Our People" interview, Lee was heard saying to Ambassador-at-Large Chan...
View ArticleWho's The Boss?
Ng Eng Hen is supposed to be the chief strategist for this coming election, but nobody seems to give a hoot to his edicts, namely (1)outgoing incumbents to introduce replacements after August 9,...
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Speeches From Hell
You don't have to be the mother of someone detained without trial to walk away from the television set every time his image comes on. It's scary enough to see a horrible person speaking from the...
View ArticleHe's Back!
Our boy is back, comparing the founding father with Osama bin Laden, rebutting criticism of his long hair, dancing hands and colourful language, and generally teaching fellow citizens of Singapore a...
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Flexing Muscles
According to the BBC, they spent $15 million to put up this year's National Day Parade. The figure has to be grossly understated considering the fancy hardware on show."If I have to shoot 200,000...
View ArticleThe Quiet Before The Storm
What the mainstream media labelled as derisory horse trading turned out to be a demonstration of maturity in the opposition ranks. One by one, they sacrificed personal agendas for a common objective,...
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Time To Abandon Ship
The body language says it all: someone has to payWhen Ng Eng Hen said election season was officially on, it was as good as declaring open the hunting season - it's time to lock and load. Cecil the lion...
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Unfinished Business
Last chance to show Wong can sing.Singapore's then Minister Mentor (MM) said in an April 2008 email interview that the daring escape of Mas Selamat Kastari from the notorious Whitley Road Detention...
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