Unfettered Discretion
Don't pop the bottle of champagne yet. The Court of Appeal may have reversed a High Court decision and ruled that the Singapore Prime Minister does not have unfettered discretion in whether to call a...
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My First Skool Teacher
This is a scary picture. What kind of parent will leave her charge in the hands of a masked stranger?The human face provides important cues for recognition of both individuals and emotions, cues...
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Third World Justice
"The Fatal Gift of Beauty" is the true story of the trial of Amanda Fox, an American exchange student convicted of the murder of another exchange student, British Meredith Kercher, in the university...
View ArticleA Politician's Waterloo
"Politics is a contest for power but the key principle when you have power is, don't take advantage of people under your charge, and always be honest and upfront with them." The problem with this...
View ArticleNot Clear At All
Can someone explain what Information Minister Yaacob Ibrahim meant by his Facebook post, "But let’s be clear – doing good offline does not mean one is excused from acting responsibly online"? The usual...
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Saving Private Dominique
The safety recommendations stipulated no more than two smoke grenades, thrown at least 20 metres apart, at least 10 metres away from the closest troops involved in the field exercise. Platoon commander...
View ArticleSend The Jokers to Coventry
To send someone to Coventry is a British idiom meaning to ignore or ostracise someone. Typically, this is done by pretending that the shunned person, although conspicuously present, can't be seen or...
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Dark Clouds Ahead
Omigosh, the proverbial fecal matter has hit the rotating cooling device. Rating agency Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the outlook on Singapore's banking system from "stable" to...
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“I Say, You Say”
The lamestream media got it wrong again. Zaqy Mohamed did not inititate any legal proceedings, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chua Chu Kang GRC merely demanded that the website take down an...
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Blind Allegiance
It was blind allegiance that led Frank Bailey to dedicate one year of his life to help put Sarah Palin into the office of Governor of Alaska. Working eighty hour weeks on pro-bono basis, Bailey was...
View ArticleLaughing All The Way To The Bank
According to the SMRT Annual Report of FY2012, ex-CEO Saw Phaik Hwa collected $700,000 in Basic Salary, $1,053,000 in Variable or Performance related bonuses plus $60,000 worth of benefits for a total...
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Subdued With Extreme Prejudice
The Australian police has a brochure to explain Positional Asphyxia (restraint asphyxia) as a form of asphyxia (from Greek α- "without" and σφύξις sphyxis, "heartbeat") which occurs when someone's...
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A Higher Calling
Even George Yeo seemed uncertain why he has been appointed to a special Vatican commission set up by Pope Francis. Contacted by 938LIVE, the usually loquacious Yeo said it "is too early to comment".The...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Dead
Zhang Kun, 39, driver of SMRT bus No.700 that flipped on its side after negotiating the sharp corner from Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) slip road into Daisy Farm Road, told Zaobao that he had applied...
View ArticlePermission To Panic, Sir
Wait a minute, this has to be deja vu. Barely a week ago, when Moody's Investors Service downgraded the outlook on Singapore's banking system from "stable" to "negative", the Monetary Authority of...
View ArticleGame Over
According to Teo Chee Hean, minister in charge of the civil service, a study commissioned by the Prime Minister's Office found that 1 in 5 Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) probes involved...
View ArticleBeyond Reproach
The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) is absolutely right when it says commentators "appeared to have misunderstood" how the process works. Problem is, none of us is really sure of how it does work.On...
View ArticleBad Example
Fresh after the retelling of Lim Swee Say swiping half a box of toothpicks from a Din Tai Fung Chinese restaurant - because he could - and depriving other paying customers of their entitlement, we are...
View ArticleHearing From The Court
The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) said, “AGC would like to take the opportunity to reiterate that the proper forum in which factual issues in a pending matter before a court should be determined,...
View ArticleGovernment Generosity
First, the good news: the much maligned Housing & Development Board (HDB) is finally pricing one of its public housing flats at $16,000. Needless to say, there are hoops you have to jump through to...
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