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Written by Ng E-Jay08 Aug 2008The popular Sammyboy’s legacy coffeeshop forum (formerly Sammyboy.com’s Alfresco Coffeeshop) has been officially closed. Hosted by the moniker Leongsam since 1999, it attracted a huge following who participated in a very wide variety of discussions ranging from current affairs, to coffeeshop talk, to matters of the heart, to sports …
Written by Ng E-Jay01 October 2008Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday wrote a condolence letter on the demise of JBJ, addressed to JBJ’s sons Kenneth and Philip Jeyaretnam.However, I find PM Lee’s condolence letter insincere and unbefitting of his stature as head of Government and the ruling party.PM Lee wrote that JBJ “used to engage ...
07 Aug 2008, The Star, AFPKUALA LUMPUR - THE Myanmar doctor, who examined Saiful Bukhari Azlan, is standing by his medical report that the former aide to Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was not sodomised.In a statutory declaration he filed on Aug 1, Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid alias Than Aung, reiterated that he stood ...
Pathologist unable to rule out possibility that wounds were defensive in natureStraits Times, 21 May 2009ST linkBy Sujin Thomas & Kimberly SpykermanWHEN he was found below a bridge at the Nanyang Technological University, undergraduate David Hartanto Widjaja had more than 36 wounds on his body.Many of these were cuts on his arms and hands, as ...
Vivian Balakrishnan said: “Anonymity in cyberspace is an illusion … … if need be, we can identify you, and if we have to, we will be prepared to prosecute you.”Channel News Asia, 21 Feb 2009CNA linkGovt says policies on new media will evolve as new challenges crop upSINGAPORE : The Singapore government has been embracing ...
When news of a ALLEGED “stabbing” incident involving final year Indonesian undergraduate student David Hartonto Widjaja at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) campus broke on Monday morning, the mainstream media descended like a pack of rabid wolves onto the story, caring not for impartiality and honest reporting, but on spinning David as an aggressor, a ...
Opposition stalwart J B Jeyaretnam has passed away.More updated will be provided shortly.Please visit the Singapore Democrats as well for further up-to-date information.Ng E-Jay30 Sept 2008, 0815hrs
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a comprehensive addition to the previous Policy Paper released by SDP entitled “Wealth and Poverty“.IntroductionEconomic growth in Singapore has, in recent years, benefited the few who control economic production at the expense of the masses who are forced to work harder and harder just to ensure that their basic needs are ...
(Photos obtained from NMP Siew Kum Hong’s blog: Homeless in Singapore — a collection of photos of homeless people in Singapore; here and here and here.)
Straits Times letter by Mr Victor Goh10 July 2009ST linkTHE ban imposed on financial institutions by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (’MAS acts against 10 institutions’, Wednesday), as a result of its investigation on the sale and marketing of Lehman-linked structured notes, appears to be a symbolic act rather than concrete action to redress the ...
Written by Ng E-Jay26 Aug 2008Every so often, we see very clearly the quality and caliber of the kind of people we have in Government. And this time round, the mainstream media did not even bother to hide or cover up the series of missteps.Lee Bee Wah’s blatant flip-flopping on the Gao Ning issue is ...
New Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Calvin Cheng has written an atrocious letter to TODAY newspaper betraying not only his absence of a sense of accountability, but also his complete lack of political acumen. I am truly shocked by his letter.
By Lim Siow Kuan, Malaysian Correspondent, Wayang Party Club16 Feb 2009Excerpts:Malaysian politics have plunged to low depths with the leak of a PKR Selangor assemblywoman’s nude photos to …
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Government is often fond of “using the right hand to slap the left hand” to give the public a semblance, but not the real substance, of accountability.If the Government was truly sincere about making the entire machinery accountable and transparent to the public, it should begin at the very top echelons. Not ...
It was reported recently in Channel News Asia that around 12,000 foetuses are aborted every year in Singapore, with doctors claiming that not enough people are using contraceptives, or are using them incorrectly. However, one must go beyond the superficial numbers presented and seek to understand the underlying reasons for those abortions. Although the Channel News Asia … 
Ms Leong Ching, a PhD student at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Professor Tommy Koh, chairman of the Governing Council of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum, are reportedly planning to lobby all ministries, statutory boards, Temasek-linked companies, and educational institutions to consider stopping the practice of serving bottled water, on the basis that bottled …
ST linkFormer lawyer Claire Nazar quit the presidency of Aware after just 11 days because she ‘did not want the hassle’.The hassle, that is, of working with the new executive committee, which she felt was ‘too gung-ho’ for her with its ‘Stormtrooper tactics’.For starters, the new exco did not seem to take kindly to having ...
ST linkNo shorts. No dyed hair. No slippers…Officials stationed at campus entrances every morning to enforce codeBy Jane Ng & Amelia TanONE of Singapore’s biggest private schools is cracking down on student dress, banning mini-skirts, flip-flops, dyed hair and visible tattoos, among a host of other things.The decision by the Management Development Institute of …
Written by Ng E-Jay08 Aug 2008Earlier in June, Ms Chee Siok Chin received notice from Stanford University that she had been selected to attend the Stanford Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development Programme which takes place from 28 Jul to 15 Aug. She was one of only 27 candidates selected from over 500 applicants.However, the ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This Straits Times column written by Nur Dianah Suhaimi is a week old, but I feel the need to put it up due to the very important and significant message that it carries.The Government has always prided itself on maintaining racial and religious harmony in Singapore. But has this outward appearance of tolerance ...
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