On 28 Feb last month, international news agency Al Jazeera did a story on Singapore politics. In it, there was a video interview with renowned historian Dr PJ Thum (at 19:00), saying that he was privately informed by someone senior in National University of Singapore that he “would never be able to work in Singapore as an academic… again” after …

In a Today report dated 14 March (Wednesday), Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information Janil Puthucheary is quoted to have said that he favoured an integrated approach similar to the one Singapore uses against drugs the Republic’s intention to treat fake news. According to the Cabinet minister, the treatment on fake news should be with the same comprehensive approach …

Mr Loh Boon Kwang was involved in a violent encounter on 2 March after sounding out to a driver that his vehicle should not be taking up two lanes. Mr Loh was earlier waiting at a pick-up location on 2 March 2018, waiting for a hitchgrab driver to pick him up. He said that he was waiting below the shelter as …

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reports Singapore has retained its title as the world’s most expensive city for the fifth consecutive year in its annual Worldwide Cost of Living Survey. Seoul is the only other city in the top ten that has maintained its ranking from the previous year. In the rest of Asia, Hong Kong and Sydney join Singapore and …

The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd has been scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018 took place. The Singaporean man was convicted of, and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty for, drug-related offences in 2016. He maintains his innocence of the crime. Hishamrudin Bin Mohd, a 56 year-old Singaporean man, was sentenced to the …

Singapore’s labour union, National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has confirmed with local newspaper, Straits Times that it had conducted a poll with its union leaders on issues such as training and taxes, ahead of the annual Budget. According to ST,  Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute has expressed that the feedback gathered from the poll along with other inputs gathered through …