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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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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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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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Abused and exploited - but now in jail
This is the story of the two Chinese construction workers who staged a protest last December, as told to us by the 2 men themselves. By Irene Lee & Bernard Lim Pay issues were not the only reasons...
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Abortion vs Adoption – People’s well being should come first
By AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) AWARE welcomes Minister Chan Chun Sing’s recent statements on abortion, affirming that the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy or bring it...
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"That’s pretty unbelievable, don’t you think?”
By Woo Wei Ling We die how we live—that is one of the subtexts of the new documentary Bukit Brown Voices. The film opens with shots of densely packed HDB blocks, and ends with footage of Mandai...
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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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Workers made false claims, MOM?
By Andrew Loh Two days after the two Chinese workers – dubbed the “crane protesters” by the media – were sentenced to jail, the Ministry of Manpower said the men had made “false claims”. One of the...
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Abortion vs Adoption – People’s well being should come first
By AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) AWARE welcomes Minister Chan Chun Sing’s recent statements on abortion, affirming that the decision whether to terminate a pregnancy or bring it...
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Straitjacket prosecutorial decision not the way to go
The following is a letter by Mr Vincent Law was sent to the TODAY newspaper, which declined to publish it. The letter was also sent to the Straits Times. Last week, AG Steven Cheong launched an...
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Abused and exploited - but now in jail
This is the story of the two Chinese construction workers who staged a protest last December, as told to us by the 2 men themselves. By Irene Lee & Bernard Lim Pay issues were not the only reasons...
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"That’s pretty unbelievable, don’t you think?”
By Woo Wei Ling We die how we live—that is one of the subtexts of the new documentary Bukit Brown Voices. The film opens with shots of densely packed HDB blocks, and ends with footage of Mandai...
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Workers made false claims, MOM?
By Andrew Loh Two days after the two Chinese workers – dubbed the “crane protesters” by the media – were sentenced to jail, the Ministry of Manpower said the men had made “false claims”. One of the...
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Allow society to be provoked
By Andrew Loh “The guidelines clearly state that we will not fund projects which are incompatible with the core values promoted by the Government and society or disparage the Government,” said the...
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Loving our country too much?
By Elaine Ee Things are getting ugly online again. Read almost anything that has to do with immigration, population, jobs, housing, transport or any current socio-political issue and you’re likely to...
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Not prepared to wait
The following is a note first published on Ms De Rozario's Facebook page. We thank her for allowing us to re-publish it here. By Tania De Rozario "...it is not that the courts do not have any role to...
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Straitjacket prosecutorial decision not the way to go
The following is a letter by Mr Vincent Law was sent to the TODAY newspaper, which declined to publish it. The letter was also sent to the Straits Times. Last week, AG Steven Cheong launched an...
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Allow society to be provoked
By Andrew Loh “The guidelines clearly state that we will not fund projects which are incompatible with the core values promoted by the Government and society or disparage the Government,” said the...
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S377A - to prevent what harm?
In light of the recent judgement on the issue of Section 377A by our courts, the following article by NUS professor Michael Hor on the topic is worth re-reading. The article was first published on The...
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Cheering bigotry in the House
By Andrew Loh When a hate speech is delivered in the august chambers of Parliament, you know something is not quite right. Yet it did happen. In Singapore. In 2007, during the debate on the issue of...
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