TR EMERITUS

Hardly a day goes by without fake news being howled and shrieked. In place of constructive debate, there is now the cry of fake news. It becomes a tit-for-tat, each side calling the other out for fake news at the drop of a hat. Truth be told, it was the Singapore government which started the ball rolling with all that indiscriminate... 

LAW AND HOME Affairs Minister Mr K Shanmugam intoned last week that, left unchecked, the widening income inequality in Singapore would lead to “dire consequences” and that such inequity is “one of the most serious issues” that Singapore faces today. I can almost hear a sarcastic wit shooting back at the Minister with... 

I refer to HDB director (Strategic Planning) Jeffrey Aw’s ST Forum reply. (“Living density different from population density“) Jeffrey has tried to defend HDB CEO Cheang Koon Hean’s blunder and invented a new term “liveable density”. Jeffrey: “Housing Board chief executive Cheong Koon Hean’s lecture was about...