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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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A lone voice no more
By Andrew Loh The problem of workplace discrimination was recently highlighted in the media and by the Minister for Manpower (MOM). The latest case involved government agencies placing age limits in...
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Nparks wants protest organisers to apply for permit
With 2 weeks to the second protest at Speakers’ Corner against the population White Paper, the organisers of the event have been asked to apply for a police permit. The “For A Better Singapore” event...
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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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Blogger to fight for free speech rights in court
In the first case of its kind in Singapore, 21-year-old local blogger, Han Hui Hui, applies to the High Court for a declaration that the Council for Private Education (CPE), a statutory body, is not...
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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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Time to video record statements to police?
“The electronic recording of interrogations… is the single best reform available to stem the tide of false confessions.” – The Innocence Project. The allegations by two former SMRT drivers, He Jun Ling...
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Time to video record statements to police?
“The electronic recording of interrogations… is the single best reform available to stem the tide of false confessions.” – The Innocence Project. The allegations by two former SMRT drivers, He Jun Ling...
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Cartoonist's arrest - not just about alleged sedition
By Andrew Loh The news is all over the Internet now - cartoonist Leslie Chew, 37, of Demon-cratic Singapore, arrested for alleged sedition. Since the news broke late on Tuesday night, the number of...
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Nparks wants protest organisers to apply for permit
With 2 weeks to the second protest at Speakers’ Corner against the population White Paper, the organisers of the event have been asked to apply for a police permit. The “For A Better Singapore” event...
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Nizam Ismail saga – the good, the bad and the ugly
By Zakaria Hassan Mr Nizam Ismail, a Director of the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) and Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Research on Malay and Islamic Affairs (RIMA) recently resigned...
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A lone voice no more
By Andrew Loh The problem of workplace discrimination was recently highlighted in the media and by the Minister for Manpower (MOM). The latest case involved government agencies placing age limits in...
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Single-identity politics
By Angela Oon The recent case of Nizam Ismail and his resignation from the AMP got me thinking, again, about the kind of single-identity politics that keep getting shoved down our throats. It's the...
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Blogger to fight for free speech rights in court
In the first case of its kind in Singapore, 21-year-old local blogger, Han Hui Hui, applies to the High Court for a declaration that the Council for Private Education (CPE), a statutory body, is...
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Silence over Sri Lanka’s killing fields
By Jewel Philemon From Singapore… Close to forty participants were seen setting up base at the Speakers Corner on Saturday. These people - from different walks of life, different nationalities,...
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Cartoonist's arrest - not just about alleged sedition
By Andrew Loh The news is all over the Internet now - cartoonist Leslie Chew, 37, of Demon-cratic Singapore, arrested for alleged sedition. Since the news broke late on Tuesday night, the number of...
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Nizam Ismail saga – the good, the bad and the ugly
By Zakaria Hassan Mr Nizam Ismail, a Director of the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) and Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Research on Malay and Islamic Affairs (RIMA) recently resigned...
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Kampong boy, human rights champion
By Elaine Ee Human rights lawyers in Singapore are a rare and precious breed. In a republic where political, press and civil liberties are only just starting to look up, fighting for human rights was,...
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More than a picnic, less than a conspiracy
By Ng Jing Song It was the following exchange that might have brought Stand Up on May Day more publicity than the organisers could have ever bargained for. “Labour Day is a day for rest.” “Ya, like...
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