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Raeesah’s resignation will stem damage to WP’s reputation: Observers
$6b offset package to cover about 10 times cost of GST hike for some
NUS boosts financial aid, 3,300 needy undergrads expected to benefit
Pandemic takes its toll on caregivers of people with special needs
Lawrence Wong to deliver Budget statement on Feb 18
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News Reports
When I saw the title of the book of essays on the Nominated MP scheme, Are unelected voices still necessary in Parliament?, I did...
News Reports
I have been waiting to read news reports about responses to the upcoming Forward Sg exercise. Since its launch last month, I can recall...
News Reports
The silence in Catholic circles is to be expected. No Catholic wants to recall the sex scandal which led to the the conviction earlier...
Reading
One of the first things that struck me about The Last Fools was how thin the book was. The book on the eight pioneering...
Chin Chai Lah
On New Year’s Eve, young people broke all social distancing rules partying at Clarke Quay. Should they punished or dismissed as indulging in hi...
Chin Chai Lah
The United States invited more than half the countries around the world for President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy, but in a glaring omission,...
Chin Chai Lah
Chin: We should reduce the number acronyms ASAP! Chai: Why? I am sure WFH and HBL are now in the Singapore vocabulary. One is...
Chin Chai Lah
Chin: You think we should say something about the Yale thing? Chai: No need lah. Already booked slot for ministerial statement in Parliament. It’s...
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Besides experts, there are observers…Cannot do some reporting to get some facts on what happened? Need to resort to getting ‘views’ instead? Views are...
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News Reports
I first met Mr Lawrence Wong more than 10 years ago when he was a political newbie from the 2011 general elections. It wasn’t...
Sticky Post
It’s a sign of how starved of political excitement we are that an announcement of a likely slate of People’s Action Party candidates for...
Sticky Post
In the early 1800s, an English journalist named William Cobbett wrote a presumably fictional story about how, as a boy, he had used red...
Sticky Post
What a curveball People’s Action Party MP Christopher de Souza threw in Parliament yesterday! In his speech on Budget 2022, he told his 4G...
Sticky Post
“Tonight is the night of all nights’’, said the BBC’s Ukraine correspondent this afternoon, reporting from an underground carpark in Kyiv, the country’s capital....
Society
I read the Straits Times report yesterday headlined “Study shows how savvy Singapore readers assess credibility of info’’with some amusement. It said that “the...
Society
When I was updating my mother’s bank passbook at an ATM last week, an old lady in a wheelchair behind me in the queue...
Politics
To put it plainly, the Workers’ Party chief Mr Pritam Singh’s performance in Parliament on Tuesday was a bit of a let-down. From the...
Politics
I wasn’t happy with the way the parliamentary privileges committee went about its work. I thought the members were too soft on Ms Raeesah...
News Reports
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