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2.4K“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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4.3K1Signs 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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2.4KHas 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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2.9KSports 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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1.9K1Bringing 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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4.5KTray 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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6.0KThe 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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3.0KNot 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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3.0KWhy 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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1.7KIf 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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2.3K1Gay 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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6.7K5Proposed 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 –...
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3.1KWhy is the Singapore Government Leading the Charge to Fracture Our Society?
RONALD LEE: Who are Thum Ping Tjin, Kirsten Han, Jolovan Wham, Sonny Liew and co that they should stir up so much...
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3.0KHow to Have Affordable Hawker Food when the Government is Jacking Up Costs for Stallholders?
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said during this year’s National Day Rally that the government will help Singaporeans to manage the cost...