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Worker's Party, still the underdog
By Biddy Low Like a flash flood after a long drought, elections and the excitement that it brings have descended upon this nation over and over by the heavy hand of fate. By this second by-election for...
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Slouching towards normalcy
Editorial The country needs the PAP to introspect and renew itself. While the unexpectedly comfortable win for the opposition Worker’s Party (WP) in the Punggol East by-election of 26th January has...
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NSP:Population increase creates a vicious cycle
Press release from the National Solidarity Party (NSP): The PAP Government has proposed that the population of Singapore be increased up to 6.9 million by 2030. NSP is of the opinion that this increase...
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A historic loss for the PAP
By Calvin Cheng The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) biggest nightmare has come true – for the first time in their recent history, they have lost a previously safe seat. The loss of Aljunied was...
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Time is ripe for the Workers' Party
By Elaine Ee In the past 18 months, a wave of change has swept across the political landscape of Singapore. One general election, one presidential election and two by-elections saw the ruling People’s...
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Straits Times' appalling lack of due diligence
By Andrew Loh Just over 3 weeks after it conducted what looked like an illegal election poll, the Straits Times has again made another blunder – but this one perhaps more significant and alarming. On...
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Govt has failed Swiss standard promise; need breather
Speech by Mr Inderjit Singh, MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC On the White Paper on Population Madam Speaker, Thank you for allowing me to join the debate on the White Paper on Population. While the report has...
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White Paper: Missing the most important questions & priorities
By Chan Chi Ling A lot of sound and fury have surrounded the recent population white paper, and for good reasons. If all goes to plan, Singapore will have 7 million people in 2030. Between now and...
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No country for the old
Editorial Why the Population White Paper is a missed opportunity. Contrary to the vitriolic reception it received, the government’s decision to prepare and publish its Population White Paper should be...
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Slouching towards normalcy
Editorial The country needs the PAP to introspect and renew itself. While the unexpectedly comfortable win for the opposition Worker’s Party (WP) in the Punggol East by-election of 26th January has...
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Happy Birthday, PM Lee, you have a tough job
By Andrew Loh It's 10 February. It's the first day of the Lunar New Year. It is also the 61st birthday of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - the man whose job I would not want. The parliamentary debate...
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Govt has failed Swiss standard promise; need breather
Speech by Mr Inderjit Singh, MP for Ang Mo Kio GRC On the White Paper on Population Madam Speaker, Thank you for allowing me to join the debate on the White Paper on Population. While the report has...
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Complicated issues, emotive people
By Lim Jialiang In a statement on Sunday, PM Lee ‘acknowledged that the government could have done better in presenting the Population White Paper to the public.’ [1] Rather than look at the arguments...
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The heart within the White Paper protest.
I experienced my first protest when I was an undergrad in Australia, more than a decade ago. A group of my university's students took to the streets to protest the rise in school fees. I meekly...
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The heart beyond the White Paper protest.
I experienced my first protest when I was an undergrad in Australia, more than a decade ago. A group of my university's students took to the streets to protest the rise in school fees. I meekly...
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White Paper: Missing the most important questions & priorities
By Chan Chi Ling A lot of sound and fury have surrounded the recent population white paper, and for good reasons. If all goes to plan, Singapore will have 7 million people in 2030. Between now and...
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Inderjit Singh and the Whip
By Andrew Loh People’s Action Party (PAP) Member of Parliament, Mr Inderjit Singh, made an impassioned speech in Parliament against the population White Paper on 5 February 2013. [See here.] It was,...
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Complicated issues, emotive people
By Lim Jialiang In a statement on Sunday, PM Lee ‘acknowledged that the government could have done better in presenting the Population White Paper to the public.’ [1] Rather than look at the arguments...
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The racialisation of health data
By Fadli Bin Fawzi On 6th March 2013, a Straits Times article carried the headline, ‘Malays at higher risk, but fewer go for checks’. This was similar to the one on 13th March 2010 which carried the...
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One-sided views about online postings do not help
By Andrew Loh “In January this year, following the horrific accident in Tampines that claimed the lives of the two young brothers, photographs showing the mangled state of their bodies were circulated...
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