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Mainstream press scuttling Govt's effort
By Andrew Loh I was in a discussion with some government officials the night before on the issue of Singapore’s population situation. One of the issues, naturally, which came up in the discussion was...
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Baby steps with our pilot project
On 1 February 2012, Back To School was launched by publichouse.sg, with the aim of crowd-sourcing lesson plans and commentaries for teachers in Singapore. We started small, with a handful of lesson...
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Herding the heedless heathen
Editorial Why the Media Literacy Council seems unnecessary. On 30th July, the Government launched the vaguely named Media Literacy Council (MLC) to “spearhead public education on media literacy and...
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Bring out the studs, please!
By Elaine Ee Why hot male Olympians send a strong gender message Most of the sexy images we see around us—in advertising and the media—are, of women. Pretty, made up, well dressed, or skimpily dressed,...
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Churches, money and scepticism
OPINION By Stacy Ooi To tithe or not to tithe? The arrest of Pastor Kong Hee and five others from City Harvest Church (CHC) for the alleged mishandling of church funds has prompted scrutiny of the...
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Baby steps with our pilot project
On 1 February 2012, Back To School was launched by publichouse.sg, with the aim of crowd-sourcing lesson plans and commentaries for teachers in Singapore. We started small, with a handful of lesson...
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Fooling ourselves with nationalism’s thin veil
By Andrew Loh With National Day just two days away, our celebration this year will be unwittingly and ironically tainted by an achievement which last happened 52 years ago. Feng Tianwei’s bronze medal...
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What price loyalty? Being native-born?
By Tang Li The debate about foreign talent in Singapore took a particularly interesting turn last week when a few letters appeared in the Today Newspaper questioning the value of the Gurkha...
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How Christian is the Crossover Project?
By Stacy Ooi The Commissioner of Charities sees City Harvest Church’s (CHC) Crossover Project as an inappropriate use of church funds ― especially as the funds were meant for other uses, and their...
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Reshuffling the deck
Editorial Assessing the Prime Minister’s latest Cabinet reorganisation. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s annual reshuffle of his Cabinet, announced on 31st July, marked the first shakeup of his team...
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More than just sex trafficking
By Georgina Vass Introducing the Trafficking Research Project. Georgina Vass speaks to Kathryn Baer and Caroline Parkes about "The Trafficking Research Project", which is aimed at making a positive and...
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A nation looking for itself
By Andrew Loh It’s National Day today. It’s been 47 years since we exited from the Federation. Singapore, after all these years, is still trying to know itself, trying to have its own identity. There...
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Chiams extend National Day greetings to Potong Pasir residents
While Singapore geared up for its 47th birthday celebration at Marina Bay in the evening, the former stalwart of Potong Pasir made a visit to his former constituency to extend greetings to residents in...
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The bottom-up approach to StandUpFor.SG
By Ng Jing Song If you rode the North East Line in the afternoon on the 9th of August, you might have been accosted by two people jiggling red and white badges in a plastic bag. If you were...
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Code of conduct ‘within the realm of possibilities’: MLC chief
The chairman of the Media Literacy Council (MLC) says its members have not had any discussion on the merits or otherwise of a code of conduct (COC) for the Internet. However, he says that such a code...
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Rousing cheers for table tennis team at Changi Airport
Scenes of euphoria at Changi Airport, Terminal 3, on 10 August 2012 as the Singapore table tennis team returned from London - after snatching two bronze medals in the games. Feng Tianwei, who won...
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Slaughtering sacred cows – again?
By Andrew Loh In his National Day message 2012, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a new committee, headed by Education Minister Heng Swee Keat, to “take a fresh look” at what the Government is...
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Having that national conversation
By Andrew Loh It is not surprising that the Sunday Times of 12 August had two reports on the Government's latest engagement effort - namely, the committee headed by Education Minister, Heng Swee Keat....
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Luring back the Singapore stork
By Elaine Ee To increase our birth rate, Singapore needs to be more livable for families. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is right. Singapore needs more babies. As he warned in his speech at the Tanjong...
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Want more babies? Change mindset towards less educated
Still, the birth rate refuses to budge. It is a hard nut to crack. The stork refuses to make a return flight — perhaps until fundamental mindsets within the government changes. An example of an archaic...
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