TR EMERITUS

Holding a one-person protest for just enough time to take a photograph gets you into trouble in Singapore. This, labor and rights activist Jolovan Wham learned, when he did just that. His action was undertaken in support of two young climate activists who are being investigated by the police, and it landed him in a police station... 

The gas tank is empty. The same old story is repeated, the same old tricks and tactics are regurgitated. But we have to brace ourselves for a lot more of the same from the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) in the weeks ahead because in a general election, they go into full swing. A tried and tested tactic is to conflate loyalty... 

Someone asked me how I would have responded differently to the covid-19 pandemic, in the context of what has happened in Singapore. I will summarize the key points here. You can check the earlier posts to verify the accuracy of this summary. At the initial stage, PM Lee said that the virus will kill 0.2% of the infected people....