TR EMERITUS

If you are familiar with the comments made (Letter to ST’s Forum) skip it and read the rest of my piece. Promise you it’s worth reading. When I first saw the “brownface” advertisement, my initial reaction was that it was a rather interesting (and perhaps even intelligent) advert, in that it was trying to show that whether... 

As a true-blue Pioneer citizen who have lived through the era of our founding fathers, just reading the reported Parliamentary debate between Education Minister Ong Ye Kung and Workers’ Party Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) Leon Perera and MP Png Eng Huat, tells me that the Ministry of Education has a mountain... 

There was a recent report on increase in suicide rates among young people. This is wasteful. It is bad for society. The underlying cause is a stressful and competitive education system. Those who cannot cope with this system find a bleak future. They prefer to take their own lives. To overcome this problem, we need to reduce...