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She did not fight for herself
Andrew Loh / Editor-in-Chief, publichouse.sg Richard Wan / Editor, Temasek Review Emeritus Mdm Vellama Marie Muthu’s case in the courts – to seek the courts to declare that the prime minister does not...
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Judge Pillai grants protective cost order to Vellama
SINGAPORE, 2 NOVEMBER 2012 ----- In a historic decision, Justice Pillai of The High Court of The Republic of Singapore has ruled that no order of cost will be levied against applicant Vellama D/O...
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Migrant Encounters - A photographic insight.
" Feels like we're in a different country right?" I said to my taxi driver as we turned into the dimly lit street of Jalan Papan. Flanked on both sides with streams of foreign workers out for a walk...
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Vanishing Point - Mind the gap
By Elaine Ee Absences, voids and disappearances form the theme of Felix Cheong’s masterful new collection of short stories, Vanishing Point. He talks to publichouse.sg’s Elaine Ee. What happens when a...
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Building families with bricks, not straw
By Elaine Ee Some thoughts ahead of marriage and parenthood benefits the government will be announcing. As some of you already know, I am a mum with three kids (13, 10 and 6 ½ years), and have a fourth...
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Navigating, not surrendering, the online space
By Andrew Loh In the last one year following the general elections, the issue of free speech has been in the news. While it may not have been reported as such, still the question of how far one should...
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She did not fight for herself
Andrew Loh / Editor-in-Chief, publichouse.sg Richard Wan / Editor, Temasek Review Emeritus Mdm Vellama Marie Muthu’s case in the courts – to seek the courts to declare that the prime minister does not...
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Of activists, the death penalty and a home with a heart
By Andrew Loh “Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam told Yahoo! Singapore in an exclusive interview recently [that] the proposed changes were the result of the government’s continuous review of...
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The grateful father & his sack of potatoes
By Vincent Law I called uncle Cheong Sunday night to check if he was coming to Singapore and told him if I could wake up on time, I'll pop by and have breakfast with him early Monday morning. Little...
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Building families with bricks, not straw
By Elaine Ee Some thoughts ahead of marriage and parenthood benefits the government will be announcing. As some of you already know, I am a mum with three kids (13, 10 and 6 ½ years), and have a fourth...
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Group disappointed with press for naming it in reports
PRESS RELEASE by Function 8: Aussie clergyman denied entry for interfering in S’pore politics – ST 12/11/2012 Aussie clergyman barred from entering Singapore – TODAY 12/11/2012 We refer to the above...
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Navigating, not surrendering, the online space
By Andrew Loh In the last one year following the general elections, the issue of free speech has been in the news. While it may not have been reported as such, still the question of how far one should...
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Of activists, the death penalty and a home with a heart
By Andrew Loh “Foreign Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam told Yahoo! Singapore in an exclusive interview recently [that] the proposed changes were the result of the government’s continuous review of...
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Baying for a pound of flesh - and more
By Andrew Loh Can you take the life of someone, anyone, based on dubious arguments alone? It seems you can, from what our ministers said in Parliament recently on the changes to the mandatory death...
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State-sanctioned killing a cop-out, says ex-NMP
The following is the unedited letter to the Straits Times by former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Calvin Cheng. You can read the edited version in the Straits Times here. Dear Sir I refer to the...
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The grateful father & his sack of potatoes
By Vincent Law I called uncle Cheong Sunday night to check if he was coming to Singapore and told him if I could wake up on time, I'll pop by and have breakfast with him early Monday morning. Little...
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The forum that almost wasn't
By Jewel Philemon Imagine organizing an event for a hundred people. You make reservations at a hotel, invite special guests, members of the press, and pull out all the stops to make this event a...
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Group disappointed with press for naming it in reports
PRESS RELEASE by Function 8: Aussie clergyman denied entry for interfering in S’pore politics – ST 12/11/2012 Aussie clergyman barred from entering Singapore – TODAY 12/11/2012 We refer to the above...
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Train announcements in English and Chinese only - SMRT explains
Below is the response from the SMRT to a query by publichouse.sg's editor-in-chief, Andrew Loh, on why announcements on trains are in English and Chinese only. Some have observed this apparent anomaly...
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NSP calls for fair treatment of SMRT drivers
For Immediate Release National Solidarity Party’s statement on the strike at SMRT 28 November 2012 Singapore The National Solidarity Party (NSP) regrets the strike action taken by some SMRT bus...
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