I was chatting to a British friend of mine recently. He had just visited Singapore and sang glowing praises of how wonderful and rich the city state was. Commenting on how new and gleaming all the buildings were, he was under the impression that everyone was rich or at least middle classed in Singapore. When I thanked him for his …

It’s a curious case, this whole STR and Singapore Herald business. On 9th November, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) asked for service providers to restrict access to the States Times Review website for publishing an article linking Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to the 1MDB investigations. After refusing to remove the article, and a failed attempt by the IMDA …

Reading reports on a media briefing given by the new SMRT CEO LG (NS) Neo Kian Hong who told reporters that there were no “deep-seated cultural issues” of human errors as characterised by his predecessor Desmond Kuek within the SMRT, I cannot help but draw parallels with certain trends of behaviour within our government which was observed by writer, Augustine Low. If …

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has expressed his apprehension regarding having to pick a side as a result of the ongoing trade wars between China and the United States, adding that it is in the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s best interests to not cave into the pressure of doing so. Speaking at a press conference that was held on the …

The Singapore Parliament will sit at 12:00 on Monday, 19 November 2018 for the 85th session of the 13th Parliament. *95 oral questions and 36 written question had been scheduled to be asked. There will be Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Foreign Affair : * Review of Foreign Policy 2018. At the commencement of Public Business, there will be …

In a bid to garner the support of Singaporeans for the People’s Voice Party, founder Lim Tean has proposed to remove the Group Representative Constituency (GRC) system should representatives from the party be elected to Parliament, as he believes that the system has enabled representatives from the People’s Action Party (PAP) who are “not qualified to be MPs” to be …

Commuters may expect to have more choices in e-hailing service providers in the very near future as Jakarta-based ride-hailing platform Go-Jek enters the Singapore market with its beta mobile application before the end of this year. Speaking to reporters after a casual discussion at the Singapore Fintech Festival on Wednesday (14 Nov), Go-Jek president Andre Soelistyo revealed that the beta …

The Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) under the National Environment Agency said that the second half of November 2018 is expected to be less wet than the first half of the month and there could be a few warm days during this period. According to the authority, inter-monsoon conditions with winds that are light and variable in direction have been prevailing …