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Khaw Boon Wan should not stroke nationalistic sentiments unnecessarily

Mr Khaw Boon Wan is stoking up nationalistic sentiments when it calls for Singaporeans to stay united and stand our ground. The danger of flaming nationalist emotions is that we can now see that war is being mentioned loosely. It is totally unnecessary of Mr Khaw to do so. It is a given that Singaporeans would stand behind the...

The shocking poverty behind Singapore’s glamorous facade

I was literally shocked when I watched the recording of the roundtable on wages organised by the Straits Times on 30th November 2018. Professor Tommy Koh revealed in that programme that there are about 100,000 to 140,000 families who are living in Absolute Poverty conditions in Singapore and a further 20 to 35 percent of families...

Real reason why Terry of TOC kanna lim kopi?

To signal to him to stop publishing fake news on the public transport system? LOL. Let me explain. If you skim thru TOC’s headlines as regularly as I do, you are sure to get the impression that our public tpt system is on the verge of collapse and that most S’poreans think it sucks: bad and expensive. Well I personally find...