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1.6KIf 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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6.5K5Proposed 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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2.7KWhy 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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2.9KHow 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...
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3.4KIs Woody Goh Trying to Sabo Ah Loong Ahead of the Next General Election?
ELSON: You don’t become prime minister of any developed nation by being a fool (yeah, even George Bush II was a Yale...
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1.8KCementing the Elite: 99% of Singaporeans are “Very, Very Mediocre” Going by Lao Goh’s Logic
HAROLD CHAI: Anyone who doesn’t believe that Singapore has a natural aristocracy had better believe it now. That “natural aristocracy:”, as Prime...
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1.9KWith Former Military Men Forming Half of SMRT’s Top Management, No Wonder Commuters Kena Tekan!
ELSON: No wonder there’s the joke that army people go to SMRT to retire – half of their top management staff are...
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6.8KOpposition Coalition could Replace the Workers’ Party in Parliament
ELSON: Singaporeans always say they want a voice in parliament, but at the same time they always show that they want a...
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4.7K“Pakatan Singapura” could Target These Two Weakest-Link PAP GRCs
RONALD LEE: If everything goes ahead as planned and we do see an opposition coalition spring, we’re likely to see “Pakatan Singapura”...
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1.7KMINDEF’s “Strict Criteria: Singer Allowed Deferment to Take Part in China Singing Contest
RONALD LEE: How strict exactly is MINDEF’s stance on deferment, such that budding local football talent Ben Davis mustn’t be allowed to...
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3.1KOkay for Scholars to Defer NS, Not Okay for other “Elites”: Double Standards Set By MINDEF?
“As all male Singaporeans liable for full-time NS put aside personal pursuits to dutifully enlist and serve their NS, it would not...
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2.2K3Costs Can Be Halved: Did Singapore Government Go in Blind in Haste to Seal Overly-Expensive HSR Deal?
Harold Chai: Singapore’s Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan can cow beh cow bu about Singapore already spending some S$300 million on the...
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3.4KCost of Living a Problem because of “Aspirations”? What has Chan Chun Sing been Smoking?
RONALD LEE: In parliament yesterday, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing said that “people’s aspirations” and their inability to fulfill...