RONALD LEE: It’s no longer Tharman, but President Tharman, following his inauguration as Singapore’s head of state yesterday (14 Sep). Mr President swamped his...
ELSON: When the government gives scholarships to foreign scholars, it harbours the hope that they will work in Singapore and contribute, or be “friendly”...
RONALD LEE: In censoring presidential election candidate Tan Kin Lian’s speech, the Elections Department and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said that explanatory...
UNCLE SUAN: Law Minister K Shanmugam is right – Singapore is “highly susceptible” to deliberate online falsehoods. But how to tell the “deliberate” from...
ELSON: If you’re middle-class, you’re likely to be hit the hardest by the government’s alternatives for raising taxes. When the government says it will...
SINGAPORE DEMOCRATS: During the general elections in 2015, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam denied the SDP’s warnings that the government would raise the GST. At that...
ELSON: Something just didn’t sound right when Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said in parliament that SMRT CEO Desmond Kuek had “volunteered” for the...