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Vivian Balakrishnan I have read in some online news that Vivian Balakrishnan (VB) has telephoned Leong Mun Wai (LMW) to apologise for some inappropriate comments that he has whispered about LMW in Parliament and LMW has gracefully accepted it. I like what I have read. Unlike LMW, VB is not a newbie MP but a very experienced... 

Trivia about the beginnings of The Online Citizen... The name was conjured at Glenda Han's pub in Boat Quay. I believe that pub was called The Camel (in French). That was where my friends in the WP and I would hang out. (This was in 2006, when I was a WP member.) I had 2 names on the shortlist, after weeks of throwing up various... 

Singapore will soon take another step towards becoming a totalitarian state with the introduction of the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill, or FICA, in Parliament last Monday. Independent Singaporean journalist Kirsten Han analyzes the problems with the bill effectively here. As she summarizes, The official narrative...