Ong Soh Chin has written a thought-provoking review of the recently staged play National Language Class inspired by the painting of the same name by Chua Mia Tee. For Ong, the interplay of Malay and Chinese languages and personas in the play-painting produces poignant questions of national identity. The questions scribbled on the chalkboard in the play-painting, …

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The Singapore government has poured S$13.75B into research and development. Of that sum of money, S$5B will go to the new Research Enterprise and Innovation Council (REIC), chaired by Dr Tony Tan. The rest will be channelled to the Agency of Science, Technology and Research to fund the current ongoing projects in the physical and biomedical sciences. It has appeared …

At first glance, James C. Scott's (wiki) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (1985) does not look like a promising source for adding theoretical structure to the discussion on online expression as resistance in urban Singapore. It is, afterall, an anthropological study of the attempts of Malay rice cultivators in "Sedaka" in …

Ms Bhavani's rebuttal of mrbrown's TODAY article "Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!" was not unexpected - see, for example, Xenoboy's analysis of the government's reaction. This post examines some points raised by those unsympathetic to mrbrown, why mrbrown has received more sympathy than Catherine Lim or Cherian George and ends off with a …

By allowing easier access to Parliament through the GRCs, the PAP is implicitly 'appointing' new MPs as they have an easier route into Parliament by riding on the coat-tails of ministers who anchor the GRCs...

...Most of the writers who (will) contribute here should need no introduction. Some have already achieved fame on their own. Our individual motivations for casting our lot in the project--I am sure--are as varied as our choice of monikers. But (if I may hazard a divination of a mood) each is drawn by the possibility of reasoned discourse and …

This post attempts to look at three recent news items in a wider historical and theoretical perspective - particularly with reference to the ideas of NUS sociologist Prof Chua Beng Huat. It argues that recent events are consistent with the PAP's electoral strategy, policy agenda and core beliefs which have been extremely stable since 1988 or earlier.

The recent exchanges between Nominated MP Viswa Sadasiva and PAP Ministers and MPs in parliament appear to reveal an unexpected victory for the PAP in trumpeting its commitment to vague ideals of the Singapore pledge. But to what extent did the underpinnings of their speeches really diverged from one another? NMP Sadasiva used the "national pledge" as a platform to discuss …

A recent post by The Kway Teow Man (What I'll like my cousin to know by 18 - Please dun anyhow go and take up a scholarship hor!) appearing on the Star Blogs section of www.stomp.com.sg has its focus on the fact that a government scholarship in Singapore need not always be the holy grail for a JC student here. Also, during the National Day Rally Speech, PM Lee …