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2.7KTransgender 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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3.2KMedian 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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2.0K“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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4.1K1Signs 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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2.2KHas 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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2.5KSports 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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1.8K1Bringing 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...
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4.2KTray Return Initiative: Has the Public Been Played for Fools In the Name of Greed?
ELSON: It never sounded right, right from the start. I’m talking about the tray return initiative. First off, why would the government...
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5.8KThe Struggle of the Opposition: Fending Off AIM and the PA, to the HDB and EMSU
RONALD LEE: We’ve a long AHTC trial to go, where Mr Low, Pritam and co can explain their good faith defence in...
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2.9KNot So Benevolent: NTUC’s S$1.50 Meals Only for Exclusive Group of People
ELSON: NTUC has tried to frame its acquisition of Kopitiam as a benevolent move that will give the public affordable meals that...
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2.7KWhy has an Independent Probe Not Been Launched into Ang Mo Kio Town Council?
RONALD LEE: An independent probe was launched into AHPETC/AHTC over bad corporate governance, and today we have town councillors from the Workers’...
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1.5KIf NTUC Takes Over Private Enterprises, Who’s Left to Fight for Workers’ Rights?
ELSON: A workers’ union is supposed to defend the interests of workers. In Singapore, this tends to be done through non-adversarial means,...
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2.2K1Gay Singaporean Recounts Discrimination He Suffered Working as a Teacher
A gay Singaporean has publicly shared his experience of discrimination at the workplace. In a Facebook post that has gone viral, Poh...
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6.4K5Proposed Smoking Ban in HDB Flats: Prepare for More Erosion of Home-Ownership Rights
ELSON: A chill was raised when Nee Soon MP Louis Ng proposed that people be banned from smoking in HDB flats –...