Wong Kan Seng makes a mountain out of a molehill in relation to arrests of JI members in 2001
After a number of years of being retired from politics, former deputy prime minister Wong Kan Seng has said at a forum on religious harmony that following the arrests of 15 Jemaah Islamiah (JI) members who had planned to bomb several targets in Singapore in 2001, "the threat of serious public disorder loomed." As all the arrested...
Does the state of football in Singapore mirror the state of leadership?
Mah Bow Tan, former PAP Minister and President of the Football Association of Singapore, once set a target for the Singapore football team to reach the World Cup finals by 2010 just as how Goh Chok Tong targeted a Swiss standard of living for Singapore by 1999. But both were ill-fated and ill-conceived targets that never came...
Less judgment and more focus on how we can help is needed
The plight of a visually impaired senior citizen denied government aid has put the spotlight on the work of social workers of late. While I don't doubt the good intentions of the social worker in question, I do wonder if an over reliance on frameworks and an overly fixed mindset has produced a rather unfair and inaccurate result. Based...
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