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Workers Party I refer to the Straits Time Insight report on Hougang Constituency published on 24 September 2010. Mr Eric Low said, “at every wake, he would send a blanket from the town council”. I would like to clarify that blankets and donations to families of deceased residents are given in my personal capacity as... 

An obviously peeved Low Thia Kiang, the WP MP for Hougang has lashed out at his ”buddy” from PAP Eric Low for misquoting him in the press. In a recent interview with Straits Times, Eric Low, who is the PAP “adviser” for Hougang said Low Thia Kiang would send a funeral blanket from the Town Council... 

Author: Yoong Siew Wah There is a Chinese saying:When a person is about to die, his/her words are kind (人之将死，其言也善）。 What does one make of the MM Lee Kuan Yew’s interview with The New York Times’ Seth Mydans coming just before his 87th birthday? Was it the ramble of a man on whom the above... 

The recent announcement by the National Solidarity Party (NSP) to establish a Malay Bureau has been greeted with much interest from both the grassroots as well as the online community. Last week, I took the opportunity to meet up with a few of NSP’s recently announced Malay candidates as well other CEC members to get... 

Dear Mr Liu Thai Ker,   I refer to the 9 Sept 2010 Today’s report of your comments at a Centre for Liveable Cities lecture.   You said since we planned for 5.5 million people, increasing the figure by 10% to 6 million will not make a huge difference.  But that is an increase of 500,000 people.  Considering that... 

Dear Straits Times,   I refer to the letter by Mr Mark Topolski dated 25 Sept 2010.   Mr Topolski claims to have observed the Singapore democracy for more than ten years now.  But according to his own posting http://comment.straitstimes.com/showthread.php?t=13816 under the ST forum thread “What will make race a... 

The massive influx of foreigners into Singapore in recent years has become the hottest issue in the coming General Election. The anti-foreigner hate comments on internet forums have alarmed even a pro-Singaporean reader like me (true blue native Singaporean who has completed 2.5 years of NS). Foreigners make up 36.4% of... 

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“The stakes in the next general election have never been higher for Singaporeans,” quipped Singapore Democratic Party’s Secretary General Dr Chee Soon Juan at the SDP pre-election rally last Saturday which drew a larger than expected crowd of nearly 400 people. Dr Chee was referring to the hordes of foreigners... 

Dear Straits Times,   I refer to the letter by Ms Margo McCutcheon dated 17 Sept 2010.   Ms McCutcheon is astounded by the tremendous changes in Singapore over her three year absence.  She concludes that Singapore is hard to beat.  But Singapore isn’t the only place where development has been rapid.  East Asia...