TR EMERITUS

It could be said that the Presidential Elections Committee’s (PEC) decision to give certificates of eligibility to four of the presidential hopefuls has come as a bit of surprise in terms of the timing and its liberal interpretation of the eligibility criteria. The four successful presidential hopefuls for the presidential... 

There is a general trend of opinion that the Special Committee appointed by PM Lee Hsien Loong to review ministerial salaries may not meet the people’s desire for a meaningful cut of the whopping ministers’ pay. The composition of the Committee does not exude the kind of confidence that it will really go to... 

GRCs were introduced ostensibly for the so-called important reason to ensure Parliament will have a minimum number of minority MPs. According to PM Lee Hsien Loong: We are a multiracial, multi-religious society. If we don’t have GRCs, our multiracial, multi-religious Parliament will be under threat. All very gallant... 

What has been touted as a bountiful budget is, strictly speaking, actually an election budget. Barring anything unforseen, this year will be an election year. What has prevented the PM from naming a date so far, according to observers, is the uncertainty of the ground situation where there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction... 

Is the opposition capable of epoch-making? The answer has to be a definite yes. The ground for the opposition is favourable and improving and the prognosis for making inroads into PAP domain can be said to be sanguine. ‘ Provided the opposition is united and avoid feuding one another in the hustings. There is already... 

Once again the hubristic MM Lee Kuan Yew has incurred the wrath of the public, this time the Association of Malay Professionals (AMP). And it is on no less weighty a subject than his disparaging comments on the Singapore Malays in his much- hyped but of doubtful repute book Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going. He commented... 

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 Straits Times, the government propaganda mouthpiece, as expected, has been giving glowing news coverage to the Youth Olympic Games(YOG). But true to its colour, it chose to withhold incidents of inferior food supply to the thousands of volunteers and consequent food poisoning among some of them from its reporting. The... 

It will not be an exaggeration to say that Singaporeans woke up today to the mind-boggling news of the National Day award of the Distinguished Service Order to the Chairman, PUB Mr. Tan Gee Paw ostensibly for solving Singapore’s perennial flood problems. Singaporeans cannot be faulted for not believing that the DSO... 

The question that is being asked frequently in the internet is:Are Singaporeans paying for monkeys? By right monkeys deserve to be paid peanuts but how come we are paying millions. The recent occurrences have not given the public the confidence of a government that holds high the concerns of the public. The golden silence...