When Ms Eileen Cheong, 25, took to the Internet to seek help to bring her father home from Tokyo, she was at her wits’ end. Her attempt to raise $250,000 was a last resort. Her father, who is in his 70s, had a heart attack […]
Oh dear, why the personal attack, Mr Shanmugam? Law Minister K Shanmugam, not one known for mincing his words, has taken aim at Donald Low, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Mr Shanmugam, posting on […]
Singapore’s Minister for Home Affairs, K Shanmugam, has called on the United States (and the world) to pay attention to the rise of “political Islam” and radicalism in Southeast Asia. Mr Shanmugam, who was delivering a keynote speech in Washington DC on Wednesday at the Johns […]
On 18 April, Mr Chua Bean Chong wrote to the Straits Times Forum page to highlight the apparent disparity between the prices of a new 4-room Build-To-Order HDB flat and that of a repurchased flat of the same size in Ang Mo Kio. Mr Chua’s […]
Clarification: Publichouse.sg has received a clarification, on 28 April 2017, from the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) following the publication of the article (below) on 26 April 2017. The MCI said, referring to Publichouse.sg, “In writing the article, you had referred to the Standing […]
In light of the current saga involving the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), and the arrest of Zainuddin Nordin, the last Government-appointed president of the association, it is timely to revisit Sylvia Lim’s rally speech during the 2015 General Election. Ms Lim, who is the […]
Thank you, FIFA The People’s Action Party’s long association with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) now seems to have come to a sad end. This is in light of news, 25 April, that its last-appointed President of the FAS – former Mayor and former […]
The recent spate of public altercations involving the use of violence is disconcerting. Are people too stressed, so much so that they are easily provoked into acts of violence over seemingly trivial things? What can be done about this? In April alone, several such incidents […]
If you have not been paying attention to Singapore’s Law Minister in recent months, you should. K Shanmugam, who also holds the Home Affairs portfolio, has been like a town crier, sounding the alarm of the threat of terrorism in Singapore and the region. If […]
Mohd Jeefrey bin Ismail was hanged in the early hours of Friday morning, 21 April, at least according to the scheduled execution date given to his family by the Singapore Prison Service. He was executed after the Public Prosecutor decided that Jeefrey had not “substantively […]
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