The alleged plot to bomb passenger jets from the UK to the US with liquid explosives is the latest reminder that terrorism remains a serious threat. The UK and Singapore have both been targetted by terorrists and the respective governments have issued highly illuminating reports since 2001 on terrorism. The main focus of this post is to compare the two sets of government …

I attended the Confluence 06 Ministerial Dialogue with Students (mainly Overseas) and also the annual Academic Conference of the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations 06 which was held in Singapore this year...

The Prime Minister's National Day Message is usually a prelude--or what we might call an executive summary--of the later Rally Speech. The former outlines the main points to be discussed in the latter. In addition, the Prime Minister's Office presumably composes the Rally Speech in consultation with the various ministries and after collating their …

Andy Ho wishes that we have decolonized minds, that we should be confident about our achievements without having to scratch that itch for external validation. I have no quarrel with this ideal. I just have problems with his supporting arguments for it...

Today Heavenly Sword wishes to write about 'the nation' using three metaphors: 'person', 'place', and 'club'. My discussion will focus on 'reasonably well-educated Singaporeans' who are potentially mobile, and I shall argue that the first metaphor of the 'person' should be abandoned, while the next two metaphors of …

The aim of this article is to examine some of the comments made by people about the government on the issues of entrepreneurship and put things in perspective. This article also hopes to debunk the myth that the development of entrepreneurship in Singapore is heavily dependent on the government...

In a recent press statement, the Minister of Transport Raymond Lim expressed concern that many of our youth are choosing to leave Singapore for greener pastures. Another article reported that "more than half of the Singaporean teens would consider emigration...Since this issue ties in quite closely with loyalty to country and National Day is just around the corner, it …

Bloggers tend to portray the MSM as slavishly serving the servant role. The normative position of most bloggers is that the mass media should serve the watchdog role; some bloggers are attempting to remedy the perceived deficiencies of the mass media in Singapore through blogging. This post will argue that while the party-state's normative position is that the media …

As those among the readers who have been perusing the blog might surmise, Singapore Angle strives to be an online forum for promoting civil and reasoned discussions of Singapore affairs and other related issues of interest. To that end, we invite the reading public to make guest contributions for publication on this blog...

The writer, Dr Gan Su-lin, is presently Director, School of Technology for the Arts & Centre for Culture and Communication, Republic Polytechnic. Dr. Gan--together with MP Penny Low and myself--was recently involved in the round-table on media issues organised by Straits Times (you can read the article here), the same round-table that …