I have read Teo You Yenn’s coverage about inequality () and I feel a need to air some observations: a.) What she observed about “falling through the cracks” is no different from what MPs have been raising in...
So they yanked out an allegedly corrupt leader, made free a political prisoner, removed GST and froze petrol prices. That’s them. Good for them. May we not forget that they are 420 times larger than Singapore, have a population...
Whilst the rest of Singapore were preoccupied whether or not the President mooted the idea to stop using CPF for housing (she didn’t, this guy did), we challenged ourselves to summarise what all the Labour MPs said in...
Janil Puthuchery gave an interview today to the Straits Times about how complex it is to engage with the public, in the age of social media. The vocal minority jumped at an opportunity to criticise the administration for a...
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. That’s probably what Minister Chan Chun Sing meant when he said the best welfare for working people is to have a good job. One...
Post-May Day notes: Each year, the same thing happens. In Singapore, the labour movement celebrates May Day joyously, but elsewhere Labour Day continues to be marked with protests. This year, thousands of workers marched...
Parliament is sovereign. And by sovereign, it means that it can do anything it pleases. It can intern whomever it wants. It can question anyone, raise any subject, pass any law whatsoever, howsoever. It is iudicium finitum, the...
To understand the dual roles of the doc, you have to understand the context of trade unions. You see, it has often been misunderstood that trade unions, government and businessmen ought to be at eternal enmity with each other...
With the recent shake-up in the private-hire industry, drivers no longer have a choice to shuffle between Uber or Grab. That means, they are also somewhat beholden to a platform unless another fella that’s big enough comes...
I think this vigilante behaviour is wrong. I won’t be very popular for saying it, but it is wrong. Firstly, there is no crime. Nothing he did breaches any legislation. He did not hit, attack, raise public alarm or any...