by Dark Matter, filed under Letters To TOC When low-wage workers received their first ever Workfare Bonus in 2006, 10% of the Bonus went into...
By leounheort People find thinking and examining things critically inordinately difficult, and yet it is these things that give rise to the ideas that drive culture....
By Edmund PM Lee announced in November 2006 two significant fiscal policy changes in the first parliament session after the election in May. First, the Goods...
“He (Mr Brown) should come out from behind his pseudonym to defend his views openly.” – Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the...
“Are we moving towards to punitive society?”, the Workers’ Party chairman, Sylvia Lim, asked the packed room of more than 80 people at the party’s headquarters...
By zyberzitizen The hanging of Nigerian Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi has, no doubt, thrown up many issues which we should be looking at. This article is...
With the increasingly fast pace of life in Singapore, there perhaps is a tendency for us to forget those who are left behind, those who can’t...
By The Kentang Analysts say that the PAP’s embrace of Hip-Hop, in order to nudge towards a style of government more in tune with the local...
PUBLIC FORUM ON THE PENAL CODE AMENDMENTS In Nov 2006, the government floated a draft Penal Code Amendment Bill and called for public comment. The Penal...
by Gerald Giam Mention “Asean” to the man on the street, and you are likely to get a puzzled look, or a stifled yawn at best....
Excerpted from Kitana’s blog here. My father and B are both of the opinion tt I am sometimes too emotional for my own good. I feel...
By Zyberzitizen Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi. Will we remember him – or even his name? Will it matter to us? Does it matter to us? Why should...
This is a summary of what some bloggers are saying about the execution of nigerian Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi. “Tochi was only 19 years old, with not...
This is part 2 of the article on entrepreneurship by Leounheort. Part 1 can be accessed here. In a conservative society, anything new is automatically treated...
Report from This Day President Olusegun Obasanjo has sought the “personal intervention” of the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Hsien Loong, in the imminent execution...
