
The threshold for the disclosure of public data is disconcerting, to the point that the bar may go lower
An article publicised by The Online Citizen led to some recent discussions in Parliament. A lady named “Ms Soo” was allegedly denied access to savings in her CPF’s Medisave and Special Accounts to pay the hospital bills. But this was subsequently clarified by various government agencies, including CPF, that she was allowed...

Operation Coldstore
The first time I heard of Operation Coldstore, an exercise which saw the arrest and detention of more than 130 opposition leaders was when I was helping to edit a small collection of poems and prose on imprisonment and exile with the late Mr Tan Jing Quee in 2008. We were talking casually about the contributors to the collection...

Do they really listen?
We all remember when the population white paper came out in 2013 and everybody objected so loudly. What happened after that? We were told the idea of 6.9 million people by 2030 would be reviewed and immigration policies would change but what has changed? In 2004 there were a little over 4.1 million people in Singapore, today...
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