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Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 26 Apr 2011 report of MM Lee’s pre-election message. You referred to MM Lee as modern Singapore’s founding father. The term ‘modern’ is unclear because what is modern today may be ancient decades down the road, just as what we now see as ancient was actually modern decades ago.... 

Singapore prides itself to have a system that is fair . Recently PM Lee summarized how estates are selected for upgrading. When 2 estates that have similar conditions and are eligible for upgrading, then the estates that support PAP will be given priority. With that Potong Pasir has been skipped twice when reaching it’s... 

It was reported by Yahoo! News on 27 April that Steven Tan, the PAP candidate who dropped out of the election on the eve of the nomination day, has denied online rumors about “harassment” issues at his NTUC workplace being the real reason for his sudden withdrawal. He officially cited “personal reasons”... 

Aljunied GRC PAP: George Yeo, Lim Hwee Hua, Cynthia Phua, Zainal Abidin, Ong Ye Kung WP: Low Thia Kiang, Sylvia Lim, Chen Show Mao, Faisal Abdul Manap, Pritnam Singh Analysis: The Workers’ Party is fielding its strongest team in Aljunied where it lost narrowly in 2006. Given the expected vote swing towards the opposition,... 

I never realised how much fear there is out there amongst Singaporeans until I experienced the General Elections first-hand. Since I was first captured by the media in early April in the walkabouts in Nee Soon and Joo Chiat with the WP, many friends have called, SMSed or emailed me to congratulate me on my courage. After... 

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan’s chances at the coming election appears to be taken a beating after his plan to portray his opponent as having a hidden ‘gay agenda’ in contesting at the polls backfired dramatically. The embattled PAP Youth Minister has drawn much flak last year for bursting the YOG budget by more... 

Even before the hustings begin, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has taken a pot shot at his opponents in Marine Parade GRC, describing them as a ‘one-woman’ team. Speaking to the state media yesterday, SM Goh commented that the NSP team in Marine Parade GRC appears to be leaving their everything to their star... 

PAP’s Health Minister Khaw Boon is gunning for a ’strong mandate’ in the coming general election. His team won 76.7 percent of the valid votes against the SDP in the previous election. The SDP will be contesting in Sembawang again led by Dr James Gomez who contested in Aljunied GRC as part of WP’s... 

First his father said it was honourable to lock up people without trial. Now PM Lee Hsien Loong said it’s honourable to screw up a national election by swapping candidates at the last minute like changing underwear. “We’re honourable people… Steve Tan is honourable, and we are. And we decided that,... 

“Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?” – Lee Kuan Yew, Asahai Shimbun symposium, May 9, 1991 People are increasingly ignoring MM’s utterances, seeing him as largely irrelevant in the 21st century. He’s had his time...