Pappy Deploying Same Strategies Some time ago, PSP raised motion to discuss CECA, I sort of know the establishment will same strategy. The strategies have deployed repeatedly successfully over the years, they could be simplified into the few categories:
1. Against foreign investments
2. Against expats
3. Against foreigners, anti-foreigner.
4. Xenophobia...
TOC Files Judicial Review Challenge To IMDA’s Suspension... TOC Files Judicial Review Challenge To IMDA’s Suspension Of It’s Services And Activities On It’s Social Media Platforms
Lim Tean
The closure of The Online Citizen TOC has done a lot more than any other publications to amplify the voices of the marginalised. There are many examples but the one which is recent and resonates with me the most is the Parti Liyani case. Way before the high court judge acquitted her, TOC was already questioning the judicial process, something which no media...
Official statement from The Online Citizen The Online Citizen (TOC) has taken down its website at exactly 9.08am. If you are wondering, yes the timing is deliberate.
We have also deactivated our social media platforms, not because we agree that Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)'s demand is justified but we do not wish to complicate matters at this point...
J B Jeyaretnam Project Limited is Live!
The Directors are pleased to announce that the J B Jeyaretnam Project Ltd was successfully incorporated with ACRA on 10 September 2021.
The directors would particularly like to thank our lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam and his colleagues at Eugene Thuraisingam LLP for their diligence, knowledge and guidance which was...
People have choices if pushed to the wall If vaccination is mandatory then people will leave and sell away their property and assets to move to other countries and the property market will collapse and the banks will go bust.
Go impose mandatory vaccination and make sure all unvaccinated people cannot enter Singapore and force unvaccinated people to leave...
FairPrice – is it really fair price? I wanted to start a new regime of dieting by eating more cereals and visited NTUC FairPrice this week. To my horror, all the cereals were very expensive and I felt that it could be cheaper elsewhere. Then I visited the ValuDollar shop nearby. I was shocked to see the same product at a very discounted price.
I went back...
Brain-Dead or Washed Locals: We Are Better Than Malaysia Came across a PAPPY diehard fan, strangely she claimed to know all the lousy policies and how things are getting worst and worst and the answer she gave me is, "We are still better than Malaysia" and "if you unhappy why you still in Singapore". She even said the govt handled the Pandemic very well.
OMG please help these...
SDA's statement on Pasir Ris Flooding
I was sending my son to school this morning before heading to work when I noticed the water level build-up at Pasir Ris Drive 12.
Unfortunately, this build-up later erupted into full-blown flooding, trapping motorists in their vehicles and injuring several persons.
I wish the victims of this mishap a speedy recovery.
This...
Pandemic Assessment Let me give you a few key reasons and lets appraise together.
1. No sick no wear mask - underestimated the problem, abundance of masks from Taiwan, but told no need to send to Singapore.
2. Dorm spread - if they have been aware instead of complacency, 60,000 will be off the list, Singapore number will be very low.
3....
Singaporeans are Jokers or Joke? Online complaints are ubiquitous, from cost of living to pandemic handling, the suppression of freedom of speech and lousy policies such as immigration and foreign talents. When you go to the coffee shops and public places, same complaints here that life is getting harder, poor becomes poorer. Of course many decades passed...
Beta testing of auto-moderation script (in progress) Please be informed that effective 12th Aug, we will be beta-testing an auto-moderation script (AMS) customized by our in-house techie on TR Emeritus (TRE).
The purpose of this script is to assist the moderators (Mods) in their tedious daily moderation chores by taking some load off, by approving comments (almost instantly)...
I Don'T Celebrate National Day Anymore One day while talking to a new citizen from China, she told me the RC handed her many NDP tickets for her friends. Then I recalled many locals balloting NDP tickets for years and never got them. And how these tickets can be easily accessed by new migrants. I believe they were using these events to impress foreigners, particularly...
Social Distancing challenges at HDB neighborhood With the recent rampant outbreak of Covid community cases in schools, HDB estates, KTV and fish markets, the Govt Task Force needs to review and focus on social distancing guidelines.
There are many hotspots in my neighbourhood in Serangoon North Av1. As residents do their daily chores of purchasing groceries at the...
Open letter to Manpower Minister Tan See Leng Dear Minister Tan See Leng,
This is an open letter as a handful of citizens may be interested in the matter of "employment disconnect" as seen from the eyes of a real citizen. From your ministerial statement made on 6th July 2021, you declared:
1) "Today we still have about 22,000 PME jobs that are not filled. Companies...
