Get To The Root Cause Of Income Inequality
THE SUCCESSFUL recent private fund-raising campaign by Workers’ Party leaders Low Thia Kiang, Pritam Singh and Sylvia Lim was a positive sign for opposition politics in Singapore.
It only took them three...
Are We Being Less Neighbourly?
MUCH FUSS has been made of a recent meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four Singapore activists, historian Dr Thum Ping Tjin, civil rights activist Jolovan...
Singapore Among The World’s Least Active Societies
WE ARE not moving enough. And we are moving too fast.
The issues of mobility and movement come to a head as a result of technology. We are slowing down...
The 5 Stages To A New Malaysia
MALAYSIANS will be celebrating Merdeka Day with greater emotion and fervour following the recent events that have reshaped the country’s political landscape.
With former Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Razak...
Hot-potato Issues – HDB, CPF, Salaries
THREE issues have gained prominence in Singapore’s social media landscape in recent weeks, and the conversations about them don’t seem to be going away anytime soon.
These issues relate to...
Doctors, Aren’t Patients Clients…2?
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About a month after my last visit, and the feedback I’d given the eye specialist, I went back for a follow up.
The appointment was for 9.15am; the second appointment...
What Is A Minister’s Worth To You?
THE LATE Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew equated ministers’ pay to the importance of an individual to Singapore.
When ministerial pay hikes were discussed in parliament in 1985, Lee referred...
PDPA Vs GDPR — Whose Privacy Is Being Protected?
ON ITS website, SingHealth has a page devoted to the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) which took effect on January 2, 2013. As a public healthcare institution, it declares that...
Doctors, Aren’t Patients Clients, Too?
FOR THREE consecutive weeks this month, and even for previous bi-annual check-ups, I’ve been kept waiting for over an hour for each appointment, despite arriving punctually at the eye...
How Will Changes In Malaysia Affect Singapore?
IT IS hard to imagine the Datuk Seri Najib Razak was Prime Minister of Malaysia just over two months ago. His fall from grace has been rapid, and he...