Editorial

20/01/2021

Urgent legislation on use of digital contact tracing data: Ministers’ frantic attempt to curb erosion of public trust

09/01/2021

S’pore govt said demand low for Parliament live-stream — but numbers prove otherwise recently

07/01/2021

TraceTogether data privacy: Can we trust promises and assurances made by Singapore politicians?

05/01/2021

Editorial

Current Affairs

2020 in Review: From elections in a COVID-19 world to the regional rise of political youth

31/12/2020

by Danisha Hakeem and Yas The major events of 2020 marked a tumultuous finish to a decade — most notably...

Trial highlights of defamation suit between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Terry Xu

by Ghui

16/12/2020

The defamation trial launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (PM Lee) against Chief Editor of The Online Citizen (TOC),...

Why is Govt tearing down petting farm and forests to build more roads when most S’poreans want to preserve nature?

The Singapore government is tearing down a local petting farm to make ways for more roads to be built. In...

Arts & Culture

AWARE launches 12-part ‘Saga’ podcast series to recount ‘New Guard’ takeover of 2009

It is simply called Saga. But for all who were caught up in it, showed up for it, or were...

Parti Liyani case: Govt readily spends on prosecuting lower-income accused persons, but tentative about providing legal representation for such individuals?

The case of Parti Liyani has sparked much debate on the state of Singapore's criminal justice system and the enhancements...

Parti Liyani’s case: Minister Shanmugam says police are “very stretched”, cites low officer to population ratio

The police are already “very stretched” said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam during his ministerial statement in Parliament...

Internal reviews cannot solve the mystery of why Parti Liyani’s case had to go all the way to High Court for justice

by Terry Xu

05/11/2020

Speaking in a ministerial statement on Wednesday (4 November), Minister of Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam said that reviews...

Is the AGC utilising technicalities to serve a personal agenda?

24/10/2020

The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) has filed a disciplinary complaint against human rights lawyer, M Ravi (Ravi), to the Law...

Community

Population planning in Singapore and how it contributed to the country’s persistently low fertility rate

23/10/2020

In 2018 during a committee of supply debate on population, Minister of Manpower Josephine Teo said that Singapore would have...

The NTUC disappointment post-GE2020