TR EMERITUS

It’s a distraction the country can do without. For the better part of 16 years now, the topic of Ho Ching’s salary keeps rearing its ugly head. The more determined the government is to keep the salary of the Prime Minister’s wife a secret, the more people speculate. The more people speculate, the more anxious the government... 

Yesterday's 1,426 new Covid-19 cases must come as a bombshell to many Singaporeans even as our citizens are slowly getting used to having new Covid-19 cases in the hundreds each passing day over the past 2 weeks or so. As I compose my post, the Chinese saying of "bing dong san cher, fei yi reu zhi han" came to my mind. Loosely... 

Some Singapore watchers might be forgiven for thinking that Heng Swee Keat is Ho Ching’s house elf. Somehow yesterday this civil servant got the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister to issue 4 Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) notices against various individuals and bloggers. Apparently,...