Look at the outcomes Singapore has achieved, Social and Family Development Minister Desmond Lee has urged. This was his response to a report by United Kingdom-based charity organisation Oxfam which ranked Singapore among the bottom 10 countries in the world at tackling inequality. The Minister is right on point. Outcomes are what matters and outcomes are precisely what Singaporeans have …

They are supposed to be esteemed professionals but the way doctors and dentists are scamming the system and their patients raises alarm bells that so many of them are merely wolves in sheep’s clothing. The latest news on the suspension and police referral of 10 clinics from the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS)  for “severe non-compliance” is only the tip …

What has chicken feathers got to do with the People’s Action Party? We have to go back to a famous quote by fascist poster boy Benito Mussolini: “If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices.” His analogy spoke to the fact that a leader or government could consolidate power feather by feather without the people realising …

What kind of a species is the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP)? The answer: one of a kind, which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. An MP that is not elected by the people? An MP without a constituency? An MP who can speak in Parliament but cannot vote? An MP that ranks among the “best losers” in …

by Augustine Low One side calls the other out for moral corruption and degradation. The other side points the finger at hypocrisy and self-righteousness. When there are two vigorous opposing sides to Section 377A of the Penal Code, things can get pretty polarising. And the “government is in the middle,” according to Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam. How …

In 2011, the Workers’ Party spectacularly captured a Group Representation Constituency, ousting a People’s Action Party team helmed by two ministers and a senior minister of state. But four years later, it only won by a whisker against the weakest GRC team ever fielded by the PAP. Currently, the WP also has a court case hanging over its head like …

The Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods has put up 22 recommendations. Here are five quick takeaways. One: There isn’t even a definition First, the glaring omission is that there isn’t even a definition of what constitutes deliberate online falsehoods. The committee only goes so far as to say that such falsehoods “harm democracy and the genuine contestation of ideas …

Vlogger Nuseir Yassin, also known as Nas Daily, has branded Singaporeans “crybabies” for taking him to task over his videos effusively praising the country, the latest one even calling Singapore “the almost perfect country.” You may also recall that after a crushing defeat on election day in 2015, Opposition politician Kenneth Jeyaretnam said: “Singaporeans get the government they deserve, so …

Every now and then, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong throws a spanner in the works just to let it be known that he is still around and still relevant in the scheme of things. But the harsh reality is that he has been sidelined politically for a number of years now. He says that as ESM, he does not …

Give us the good stuff and we will embrace you like a friend, companion and comrade. First, he was seen hanging out at a cafe with Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan. Then, days later, he went on a stroll with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at Gardens by the Bay. All because Nuseir Yassin, creator of the video series, Nas …