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Politically Motivated Public Bodies
Nothing but the truth?The war of words is starting to degenerate into a kopi-tiam brawl. In the old days, we are told, cups will be turned upside down, the signal for the gangsters to begin battle....
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Phew! The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) has stated that, in terms of legal principles, they agree with District Judge Siva Shanmugam's key submissions and will not be appealing against the...
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Clearing The Air
At least the truculent troika of Khaw Boon Wan, Teo Ho Pin and Chandra Das had the smarts to shut up when invited to call in the CPIB if they were not satisfied with the public accounting of the A.I.M....
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Politicians Exposed
Edward Snowden is proving to be one of America's consequential whistle blowers, after Daniel Ellsberg, the man who gave us the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam war. The 29-year-old source behind the...
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Money For Cars
With scant information about the Changi Motorsports Hub project, we'll never know why the $36 million successful bid by a Japanese-led consortium was finally scrapped by the Singapore Sports Council....
View ArticleCredibility At Stake
Blackbox Research is one of many online survey companies out there, except that this one has decided to set up shop in Singapore, doing work for outfits like NTUC Income and Mendaki. Top management...
View ArticleInnocence Lost
The film maker's home was raided, her computers seized and her person dragged into a police station like a common criminal. But now the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) have, after a long review at...
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The Art Of Throwing Smoke
He was silent when the freedom of the internet was threatened by the likes of Yaacob Ibrahim. He was just as quiet when the number of dengue cases crept past the 10,000 mark. He did not chime in when...
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When Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) soared to 172 at 3 pm on Wednesday, Singapore's worst haze reading since September 1997 when the number peaked at 226. Then at 10 pm last night the PSI hit a new...
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Secret Origins Of The Little Red Dot
The term "little red dot" gained currency after former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie put down Singapore in an article published in the Asian Wall Street Journal of 4 August 1998. It quoted...
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Thinking Out Of The Box
The fact that the Indonesians are attempting to seed the clouds to quench the forest fires of Sumatra does not mean there are no alternatives to addressing the remote sites of conflagration. Our...
View ArticleLet There Be Light
The last time we had a reminder from the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) on the subject of sub judice it ran something like this:"Meanwhile, we would remind all parties that statements made by...
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Confusing The People
The National Environment Agency (NEA) website was supposed to clear the air about concerns regarding the assessment of the haze danger. It turns out to be another exercise in semantics to cover up...
View ArticleHow To Apologize
Apologizing for a mistake might seem like an impossible task, but if executed correctly, the expression of contriteness can win the respect of all parties concerned. Did President Susilo Bambang...
View ArticleA Question Of Libel
Whatever keeps Law Minister K. Shanmugam up at night, it wasn't The Global Mail (TGM) piece by Eric Ellis. At least not long enough to make midnight calls, or so he claims. But Shanmugam did write that...
View ArticleWindow Dressing
It was the rags-to-riches story to beat all rags-to-riches stories. Indonesia’s richest man, Eka Tjipta Widjaja, the semi-retired patriarch of the Sinar Mas group, built a fortune amounting to US$12...
View ArticleCyber Threat
What the fish (WTF) is the minister Hen thinking of when he announced plans to set up a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) surveillance task force to "track cyber trends"? Euphemistically code named "Cyber...
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The Goddamn Idea Was Stolen
The case says so much for intellectual property and copy right protection in Singapore. Two doctors had patented their design (filed in 2002, granted in 2005), yet the court has thrown out their claim...
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Innovation At Risk
On Wednesday 19 June 2013, international rights groups struck out at the Jordanian government who made amendments to their press and publications law last year to regulate "electronic publications,"...
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Ultimate Stakeholders of the Fund
The last we saw of him was the indelible image of a grown man bawling his eyes out like a baby on national television, after learning that his salad days as full cabinet minister was over. Not only...
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