TR EMERITUS

Little India Although the Government has increased the number of parking lots in Little India, the weekend traffic situation has yet to improve on Buffalo Road, next to Tekka Centre. Around noon yesterday (Sunday 17th Oct), the traffic jam there stretched about 100m all the way to the bus stop on Serangoon Road, across the corner... 

The authorities continued to restrict freedoms of speech and assembly in 2009. In April, Singapore’s legislature passed a measure that would require police permission for public assemblies of all sizes, removing a previous threshold of five or more people. In October, the Far Eastern Economic Review lost an appeal in a defamation... 

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called democracy a “failed” ideology and held up China’s model of authoritarianism as an alternative “worth studying”. He said China’s political model — which he termed the “Beijing Consensus” — showed that a nation could develop well even in the absence...