TR EMERITUS

Ever since the elections started I've been reading a lot of vicious and ignorant comments about the Straits Times. Here's why most of them don't hold water, and why you should think twice before calling the paper a "running dog for the government" or a "state-controlled press" (other than the fact that it makes YOU look like... 

Singapore, says Mr.Lee Hsien Loong, is not a one-party state. The man is a bare-faced liar! What other lies, it makes you wonder, has he been telling? Perhaps he does not understand the meaning of the word. Or perhaps he hopes that if he repeats a lie often enough, like Goebbels, it will be believed. He then went on to say... 

IS ANOTHER former high-flying civil servant set to stand as an opposition candidate at the upcoming general election? Mr Tan Jee Say, 57, previously a principal private secretary to Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, told The Straits Times last night that he was not ruling out the possibility. 'It is interesting. I have not decided...