TR EMERITUS

It’s been a rather wild few days for me as a blog publisher. In the last few days, I’ve seen more people flock to my obscure part of cyberspace in the last five days than I have in the last few years. As a rule of thumb, socio-political blogs don’t attract much traffic and are notoriously hard to make money from. Nobody... 

Do you know that since Lee Hsien Loong became the Prime Minister of Singapore in 2004, no death row prisoner has been granted clemency? This means that three presidents – Tony Tan, SR Nathan and Halimah Yacob have never been advised by the cabinet to grant any clemency. At least 80 people have been hanged since 2004. Between... 

I read with disgust that a coffee-shop at block 631, Ang Mo Kio Ave 4 (AMK) charges its customers 0.60 cents and 0.80 cents for plain water and iced water respectively. Profiteering is considered an unethical and illegal business practice and behaviour. It is the act of taking advantage of a market or situation, in our case,...