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Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Politics in Singapore: The past five years (and the next three)

Earlier this week, TR Emeritus (TRE) featured a brief editorial on how Low Thia Khiang faced a challenge from Chen Show Mao for the Workers' Party's (WP) top post. Much to my surprise, there were some well-received comments on TRE about how Low ‘deserved’ this challenge as the WP had been too meek in Parliament under his...

Why PM won’t heed Jap PM’s tots

Foreword: Chris K (A S’porean FT living in Japan) commented on Facebook on this piece. I’ve worked his comments into the original piece and added some background info. Hence this retitled piece which is an expanded and reworked version of the earlier piece. … …. Prime Minister Abe … in his latest op-ed in the WSJ...

What’s wrong, ELD?

News broke on Friday that the Elections Department (ELD) had lodged a police report against Teo Soh Lung, Roy Ngerng, and The Independent Singapore (TISG) for their posts made on 6 May, which happened to be the Cooling-off Day for the Bukit Batok by-elections. My personal understanding of the regulations for this ridiculous...

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