Commentaries
Multi-ministerial task force should re-examine its communication, engagement strategy to overcome public distrust of vaccines
by Professor Sattar Bawany Regrettably, the tone of the message by Mr Lawrence Wong, the co-chair of the multi-ministerial task...
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MIT on TraceTogether saga: S’poreans not particularly bothered by privacy issues, but by “bait-and-switch” in how contact tracing data can be used
Earlier this month (4 January), Singapore’s Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan revealed in Parliament that the police...
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Dennis Tan and Nicole Seah of The Workers’ Party speak up for Dover Forest
It is heartening to see non Peoples' Action Party (PAP) politicians fulfilling their promises to hold the ruling Government accountable...
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Founding fathers of Singapore Hainanese chicken rice stall did not attend poly or ITE
Senior Minister of State Amy Khor announced on Monday (11 Jan) that the government will launch a new work-study programme...
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Teo Soh Lung: Leaders of S’pore are cruel and vengeful for imprisoning authors and poets like Yeng Pway Ngon and Kuo Pao Kun
by Teo Soh Lung The leaders of Singapore are so absurd or shall I say cruel and vengeful? Why did...
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Privacy laws applied to the Government at last
by Ngiam Shin Tung Well, okay, we haven’t really seen the details yet, and we already know that there will...
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“Legally unsound” and “serious error” for Court of Three Judges to find Lee Suet Fern guilty of professional misconduct, says leading Queen’s Counsel
The Court of Three Judges’ (COTJ) decision to find senior lawyer Lee Suet Fern guilty of professional misconduct and suspend...
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S’pore population “being conditioned to accept greater surveillance”, says Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
The Singapore population is "being conditioned to accept greater surveillance", and such is why people must be wary of "the...
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Allowing TraceTogether system to be used for non-COVID purposes is a slippery slope
It is concerning to read that data from the COVID-19 contact tracing system TraceTogether can be obtained by the Singapore...
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Should PM Lee and Gan Kim Yong publicly take the COVID-19 vaccine on live TV to allay jitters?
Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong (Gan) has said that politicians have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19 because they...
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