Race and religion are divisive fault lines in Singapore
While I cannot agree more with the Prime Minister who said that Singapore must treasure its racial and religious harmony in a Facebook post on Sunday (July 21), it is the Prime Minister’s People’s Action Party (PAP) government who are guilty of making race and religion divisive fault lines in Singapore. The question is...
Trumpeting an all-time high 9 poly graduates who get a PSC scholarship – but so what?
This year, out of 93 recipients of PSC scholarship, 9 are polytechnic graduates. Mind you, this is regarded as a big jump from recent years. In the past two years, only a single scholarship went to someone from the polytechnics. In 2016, the number was three. In 2017, 24,210 students graduated from the five polytechnics (figures...
Violence and peaceful protests in Singapore
Watching television yesterday about the protests in Hong Kong and the violence that erupted late in the night, I cannot help reflecting on Singapore’s history. Most of us grew up with the history that was taught in school. We simply believed that the unrests in Singapore in the 1950s and 60s were caused by communists and that...
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