TR EMERITUS

Dear Dr. Tony Tan, I came to know about the controversy regarding your son only today and I am extremely angry and frustrated. Let me explain about my own background, then perhaps you will understand my sadness. I was a second generation PR who was studying at a foreign university. My father worked in Singapore, he sincerely... 

I served as the Minister for Defence from 1995-2003. During this time, my son Patrick served the latter part of his National Service. As Defence Minister, I worked to improve our defence capabilities, including National Service, with an eye towards the current and future needs of Singapore. National Service is an important... 

Dr Patrick Tan Boon Ooi, the son of PAP-endorsed presidential candidate Dr Tony Tan has issued a statement on his father’s Facebook to ‘clarify’ the recent controversy surrounding his NS stint after TRE reported that he served his NS as a ‘defence medical scientist’ from 2000 to 2002 instead... 

I am proud to have served Singapore during my National Service. It is deeply upsetting to me that rumours have been circulating that impugn my integrity and the institution of National Service. After completing my A-levels in 1987, I joined my cohort entering National Service in 1988. After completing Basic Military Training... 

With the people’s clear favorite Mr Tan Jee Say making waves with his election campaign and PAP-endorsed candidate Tony Tan’s latest fumbling on his son’s NS stint, the state media has launched a propaganda blitz to downplay the chances of his possible opponents and to take away some heat from him. Channel... 

A 24 year old polytechnic student and new citizen from China Wang Jianbin was jailed for 13 years and given 15 strokes of cane by the High Court today for raping a 13 year old girl. Wang reportedly got to know the Secondary One girl through a teenage magazine’s pen pal column in Oct 2009. They soon communicated with... 

By Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 19 July 2011 Right before a clown threw blue shaving cream on Rupert Murdoch and Murdoch’s pink-clad wife threw a roundhouse at the clown, the most powerful media mogul in history was reminiscing about his father. In a meeting last week in London with the parents of the murdered 13-year-old... 

In laymen terms, the Indian Foreign Talents rushing into Singapore to settle down bring their caste system, ethnic and religious bias-ness with them. They can never integrate with our local Singaporean Indians. Let’s review rationally: 1. They like to congregate and mix with their own – evident from enclaves in... 

When four Singaporeans stood outside the CPF building in a silent protest over the continued hoarding of Singaporeans’ CPF savings by the repressive PAP regime, four riot trucks were activated and they were arrested immediately by a squadron of riot police and dragged away violently from the site. However, when thirty... 

As regular readers will know, I’m pretty cynical about the pronouncements made by ministers. But whatever little faith I had has been shaken badly in recent weeks. I’ve never believed the stories about PRC prostitutes, sales assistant, hawkers and manual workers becoming PRs easily.  I thought the only people who...