TR EMERITUS

Halimah Yacob In an interview with Channel News Asia, PAP MP Halimah Yacob admitted that ‘integration’ between Singaporeans and foreigners isn’t ‘easy’ and that more can be done to look into the concerns of Singaporeans. Due to the PAP regime’s ultra-liberal immigration and pro-foreigner... 

Much attention in the past few years have been focused on the Singapore government’s liberal and generous immigration policies designed to attract foreign talent and labour which the government insists is necessary to maintain a sizeable workforce, given Singapore’s extremely low fertility rate. The influx of immigrants... 

Most Singaporeans have enough money to provide adequate housing for themselves and families, according to a recent global poll conducted by Gallup. The results are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults in 125 countries, 2,000 adults in Russia, 4,150 adults in China, and 6,000 adults... 

With the next general election expected to be called in early 2011, the PAP regime has started to give out its usual ‘ang pows’ to ’sweeten’ the ground. According to Channel News Asia, some 800,000 Singaporean HDB households will be receiving about S$50m worth of Utilities-Save (U-Save) rebates... 

Barely a month after newly-minted Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has boasted publicly that Singapore’s ‘crime rates have fallen’, another spate of violent attacks took place across the island, with one of them occuring at Downtown East, where a 17 year old boy was brutally murdered in November this... 

I tried to trace through this year’s  top  five events in Singapore and it was not easy as there were many happenings that shook our country during the past twelve months. In fact, this year has brought along a string of disasters and many have termed 2010 to be the year that is best left forgotten. Some have also... 

Michael Fernandez Former Internal Security Act Detainee, Mr Michael Fernandez, recently sued the PAP Government for wrongfully imprisoning and torturing him. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) countered that the Mr Fernandez was arrested because he was a member of the communist front and was instigating unrest and violence. This... 

SAE Institute’s Singapore campus will be offering a new Diploma of Digital Journalism starting 28 March, 2011. The new media journalism course is the first and only such accredited diploma offered in Asia. The Digital Journalism diploma is aimed at online journalists and communications professionals, as well as students... 

Singapore is one country that transformed itself from a developing to an industrialised one through reliance of the foreign economy. It depended on the inflow of foreign direct investments and the export of goods. This model has not changed over the last 50 years of Singapore history. During the last global financial crisis,... 

Mr Lim Chin Joo, the younger brother of one of the founding fathers of  modern Singapore and the PAP, the late Mr Lim Chin Siong has written a letter to the Straits Times Forum accusing the National Library Board (NLB) of ‘falsifying’ history. The book ‘1959-2009 Chronicle of Singapore, Fifty Years...