The Flipside of Xenophobia
Singapore invaded by the Japanese in Feb 1942 Another National Day but this one is different. It took me all these years to unlearn that National Day is not our country’s birthday (see LINK) but our Independence Day and then my own reflection of how our forefathers fought for it, first from the Japanese, then the British...
Duck Cries Foul – Another Government Tender to be Scrutinised?
Ducktours announced on 26th July 2012 in TODAY newspaper that they would be exiting the Singapore River in December 2012, as they have not been awarded one of the 2 water taxi operating licences in the Marina Bay (which includes Singapore River) in a recent tender exercise called by URA. The 2 licensees from 1st January 2013...
The case of the sleeping judge – Singaporean judge caught napping
It has been reported in the National, a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, that a judge (originally from Singapore, a place that some have called “the Little Red Dot” and others a police state) was caught sleeping while hearing a case before him. Nakheel, the developer behind the Palm Jumeirah (a premier resort in the...
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