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2.8KMOE’s Move to Abolish Streaming Creates Yet a New Entrenched Elite Class?
RONALD LEE: Ong Ye Kung should be lauded for trying to shake things up at the Education Ministry, and carrying on the...
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Lee Hsien Yang and Tan Cheng Bock: A Win-Win Marriage of Convenience?
ELSON: It’s a sexy idea – Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Tan Cheng Bock forming a team, fighting the “dishonourable son” Lee...
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The Dismal State of PMET Retrenchment and Re-Employment: 60 Percent Out of Job and Unable to Re-Enter the Workforce
ELSON: “Study so hard for what” is a common refrain heard among young boys and girls here who absolutely hate hitting the...
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MOH Hid HIV Patients’ Data Breach from the Public for Two Years: Where’s the Accountability?
RONALD WONG: The Ministry of Health makes the Ministry of Defence look good when it comes to public accountability – and that’s...
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Insurance Industry Veteran Blasts “Messy” MediShield Scheme, Says Gan Not Fit to be Health Minister
Former NTUC Income CEO Tan Kin Lian has condemned the way the MediShield national health insurance is structured and says that changes...
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MINDEF’s Sorting of NS Recruits Based on Educational Qualifications Widens the Social Divide
RONALD LEE: National Service fosters integration among all ethnic groups in our multiracial society. It is the one melting pot where boys...
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Power of the Internet Drives the Government to Withdraw MPs’ Parking Privileges and Review SEHCs
RONALD LEE: When Singaporeans band together in a common chorus of “nabeh lah” and other curses, we can effect change. Just look...
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Transgender Woman Who Served National Service Saved Lives but was “Mercilessly Abused”
This story was written by Pengpeng Zheng, a research Assistant at the University of Texas at Dallas, who served her National Service...
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Median Income Up by 4.8 Percent, but Cost of Public Services Hiked by Up To 30 Percent?
ELSON: Is the government bent on making sure that taxes and the cost of public services keep up with or even outstrip...
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“Little Police Scholar”: Reform Party Chief Kenneth Jeyaretnam Shares His First Encounter with Heng Swee Keat
KENNETH JEYARETNAM: When I was studying economics at Cambridge in 1980 I remember one occasion when I invited a group of Singaporeans...
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Signs Point to Chan Becoming Next Prime Minister with Shan and Heng Serving as Deputies
RONALD LEE: The PAP’s CEC election on Sunday has shed more light on Singapore’s next generation of leaders from the PAP. I’m...
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Has Lee Hsien Yang Been “Bullied” into Rebellion by Big Brother?
RONALD LEE: Lee Hsien Yang caused one hell of a stir when he went for teochew porridge with former PAP politician turned...
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Sports Hub and SEHCs: The Shameful Flops of Vivian Balakrishnan’s Public-Private Partnership Forays
ELSON: So much time and money given, yet so little results to show for it – that’s the best I can say...
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Bringing Back the Hawker Centre Culture: The Government Must Stop Prioritising Profit Over People
ELSON: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Clearly the government didn’t get the hint when it came to hawker centres. Either...
