The Rape Of Democracy
Daming Sunusi, an Indonesian High Court judge running for a Supreme Court position, was quoted by Kompass in January 2013 saying, "The one raped and the rapist both enjoy it, so [we would] need to...
View ArticleLack Of Trust All Around
Morbid anti-suicide pledges are flooding the internet in China according to a BBC report, written in the hope that they will prevent authorities from falsely ruling their death as suicide should they...
View ArticlePrice Of A Patriot
If you require proof Khaw Boon Wan is no gentleman, read how he addressed Ms Sylvia Lim in his closing remarks of the MND Review "debate":"This is self-righteous and - pardon me for saying so -...
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The Fix Goes On
At the watered down MND Review debate, Denise Phua, MP for Moulmein-Kallang GRC, said: "To be honest, the last thing on the minds of my fellow TC chairpersons, councillors and the staff was to fix and...
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Story Of A Brave Ah Lian
Japanese politicians scrambled to distance themselves from mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, after he said forced recruitment of Asian women to work in military brothels had been necessary to maintain...
View ArticleIt's All Done With Math
In what could be a smoking gun in the City Harvest Church court case, it was discovered that the 2 percent interest rate in the original bond documentation for a Special Opportunities Fund managed by a...
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Truth Is The Real Casualty
NOT the Ministry of Manpower advertisementNo wonder the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) flashed it's advertisement on telly last night again. You know, the one that has an old lady at a food court whinging...
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Competence Challenged Again
Call it another mee siam mai hum moment. The prime minister gave a big speech about safety at work, and identified the construction, manufacturing and marine sectors as places where most incidents...
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Who Is Janadas Devan?
In response to Ian Buruma's article in NYR ("The Singapore Way, 19 Oct, 1995") which made reference to a journalist who lost his job for writing something critical of the government, the unnamed person...
View ArticleGood News About Singapore
Yay, finally, something positive to read about Singapore, after a dismal surfeit of negative court proceedings and workplace bashing. Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) supposedly...
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Growing Old In Singapore
Women in Singapore can expect to live to 85 and men to the age of 80, if the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) figures are to be believed. Problem is, WHO assumes we have the same healthcare...
View ArticleGo On, Make My Day
The former president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) was charged with criminal breach of trust for misappropriating association funds in 2005, but declined to take the witness stand to...
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No News Is Good News
You can tell Yaacob Ibrahim is still sore with the internet. How else would we ever learn that the Minister in charge of Muslim Affairs was once courting a Puerto Rican lass instead of a nice Muslim...
View ArticleThe Evil That Men Do
Look who's leaping from flood waters into hot water. Cornered by the tsunami of backlash against the proposed news website licensing requirements, Yaacob Ibrahim dismissed it in monetary terms as "just...
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More Cracks In The System
Does it look like this guy is trying to crack you up?Call it another crack in the system. No, we don't mean the latest crack that caused another delay in the south-bound train service between Yio Chu...
View ArticleCase Closed
The horny law professor from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Tey Tsun Hang, has been sentenced to a jail term of 5 months and ordered to pay a penalty of S$514.80, a figure presumably...
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Corrections
Associated Press (AP) was taken to task for its article ("Singapore police protocols flouted in US death") by ambassador Ashok, who called it "inaccurate, misleading and mischievous". Read AP's...
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How Mistrust is Generated
Watching Acting Minister of Manpower Tan Chuan Jin on the Talking Point programme special reminds one of a book which has the full title, "Denialism, How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific...
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Ghostly Hands At Work
After the Todds left the official hearing about their son Shane's death in a huff, they told Reuters: "What has made us say that we can no longer stay here is the testimony from the beginning saying...
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