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‘REFORM’ or ‘TRANSFORM’ – Change in what form?

On 4th May 2011, sensing the voters were very angry: "WHATEVER the results of the general election.......And if elected, Mr Yeo, who leads the PAP team in the fiercely-battled Aljunied GRC, pledged that he and his team-mates would be 'advocates of reform' within the party, the government and the Cabinet."[Link] On 10 May 2011...

How GE 2011 proved me—oh, so wonderfully!—wrong

For 17 years, since 1994, I had been writing commentaries on various issues in the Singapore political scene. Whether these were long-standing problems such as the emotional divide between the PAP leadership and the people, or specific issues such as the controversial increase in ministerial salaries, the articles invariably...

Stop donating to the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund

Now that the election is over and our government promising to listen and help Singaporeans more, it remind me of my personal experience which had never give me a good impression of the ST Pocket Money Fund by the Straits Times Group which is part of our government machinery. I was unemployed for over 2 and half years with 3...