by Robin Low The idea of a welfare state is shunned by many countries and groups within our modern business-oriented society. At the same time, the rise of neo liberalism and the growing concentration of wealth have created the conditions for an explosive growth of philanthropy. We have limited resources but ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, so we look to philanthropy …

The Election Department has announced that the Registration Officer is preparing the Registers of Electors in accordance with section 10(1)1 of the Parliamentary Elections Act based on the prescribed date of 1 Feb 2019. Any person who satisfies the following qualifying criteria as of 1 Feb 2019 (i.e. the cut-off date for the Registers of Electors) will have his name …

Following the success of his first rally on Saturday (26 January), Lim Tean, founder of political party People’s Voice, is gearing up to organised his second rally called "Where Is The Accountability In Singapore?" on 16 March at Hong Lim Park. Announcing this news on his Facebook page, the Singaporean lawyer and politician, said that the Republic is no longer …

The Singapore government has announced on Thursday (31 January) that it has received confirmation from the Government of Malaysia through diplomatic correspondence that it has remitted to the Government of the Republic of Singapore the payment for abortive costs incurred by Singapore in suspending the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail Project. The deal came after a formal agreement between the two …

Back in 2017, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged Singaporeans to start replacing white rice with brown or mixed-grain rice for a healthier diet. White rice, he said, would cause your blood sugar to rise up, implying that eating white rice would increase a person’s risk of developing diabetes – a major health concern in Singapore. He suggested switching to …

Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected multiple attempts to infect foreign diplomatic entities in Iran with homebrew spyware. The attacks appear to be using an updated Remexi backdoor. Several legitimate tools were also used during the campaign. The Remexi backdoor is linked to a suspected Farsi-speaking cyberespionage group known as Chafer, previously associated with the cyber-surveillance of individuals in the Middle …

The recent death of Corporal First Class (CFC) Aloysius Pang Wei Chong in New Zealand was not the first occurrence where a serviceman lost his life on the job. At least 7 other Singaporeans have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving the nation in peacetime in the past 16 months. When such incident repeats itself frequently in a short span …

An American fraudster teams up with a rogue Singaporean doctor and together they wreaked havoc. They hookwinked and defrauded the Manpower Ministry, Health Ministry and Education Ministry and put thousands of Singaporeans in jeopardy. If ever we need confirmation that the rot has set in, this is it. It was with apparent ease that HIV-positive Mikhy Farrera-Brochez was able to …

Following the death of operationally ready reservist Corporal First Class (NS) Aloysius Pang, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) announced that they had lowered the training tempo – referring to the duration, frequency and intensity of training activities – in order to allow units more time to comprehensively review their training programmes with the aim of reducing training risk for all …

A Singapore Go-Jek driver uploaded a video on Thursday (31 January) on Go-Jek Singapore Community Facebook page that shows a woman rider accusing him of kidnapping her because he took a route that uses Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries. Driver Kamaruzzaman Bin Abdul Latiff recorded and uploaded the seven-minute video to show the kind of behaviour displayed by riders that …