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THE leading alternative news website cum blog in Singapore, The Temasek Review has received an email from Mr Gary Bryson, a radio producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation requesting for a discreet in person interview with their representative – to be featured in an upcoming radio documentary jointly... 

Former ISA detainee Mr Vincent Cheng will be sharing his experience on how he was “mistreated” by the PAP regime during his detention for three years from 1987 to 1990 tomorrow at Hong Lim Park as part of the SDP pre-election rally. Mr Cheng was arrested under the PAP’s repressive Internal Security Act... 

Famed terrorist Mas Selamat Kasteri has been handed over to the Singapore authorities after a year in Malaysian custody, heightening fears among Singaporeans if he would repeat his spectacular escape again. Mas Selamat made the PAP regime an international laughing stock when he escaped from the Whitney Detention Center... 

Desperate to stem the tide of anti-PAP sentiments among young Singaporeans, the PAP regime has embarked on a “brainwashing” campaign to craft “active citizens” out of Singapore students. School teachers will be required to set aside two hours a week to “make confident learners and active citizens... 

Dear Straits Times,   I refer to the commentary by Ms Xue Shu Qin which first appeared in Lianhe ZaoBao on 24 Aug 2010 and reproduced by Straits Times on 28 Aug 2010.   Ms Xue laments the muddied state of her own country Malaysia while waxing lyrical on all that is good about Singapore.  If Ms Xue can broaden her perspective... 

With the next election looming ahead, the PAP-controlled media has gone on a propaganda overdrive to weaken and split the opposition in a desperate attempt to promote its “endorsed” opposition party – the Workers’ Party. The Straits Times Insight carried two glowing reports on Hougang today with... 

Netizens are getting increasingly irritated and peeved by the rampant censorship on the Ang Mo Kio-Yio Chu Kang Facebook launched personally by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last week which was given extensive coverage by the mainstream media. PM Lee has initially invited netizens to post “freely” on its wall,... 

Why should Singaporeans bother to procreate? – Having a kid is, perhaps, as good as buying a piece of landed property in Singapore. To be precise, it is the equivalent of owning a semi-detached house in either the Eastern or Western states in this diminutive country. Nonetheless, it also depends on how much you, as... 

The disastrous Youth Olympic Games may have ended already, but its litany of comical screw-ups continue, much to the embarrassment of the organizers and the embattled PAP regime which had touted the games as a showcase of the “Singapore Spirit”. The YOG was blighted by complaints of mistreatment of volunteers,... 

The majority of Jurong residents are unconvinced by the latest “wayang” put up by PAP Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to better “differentiate” Singaporeans from foreigners in order to placate rising public disgruntlement at his unfair pro-foreigner and ultra-liberal immigration policies ahead of...