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The Wind of Change – Labour Day Protest
The Wind of ChangeIt was good to see a turnout of about 500 – 600 people today at Hong Lim Park despite the police warning last night against the organizer Gilbert Goh.In addition to SPF’s warning, the...
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Singapore meritocracy has run its course
Former PM Mr Lee Kuan Yew said: “I do not accept that there are any disadvantages to meritocracy.” – the South Asia Diaspora Convention, Resorts World Sentosa, Jul 22th 2011.Graph 1I will argue that...
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Nip anti-foreigner sentiments in the bud
THE protest against the plan to hold a Philippine Independence Day event in Orchard Road is worrying ("Organisers of Philippine event targeted"; April 17). Not only does it show that Singapore society...
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Gilbert Goh wants you to splash dog poo at PM Lee’s photo
From ‘Protest organiser Gilbert Goh advised against defacing poster of PM’, 30 May 2014, article in TodayThe police have contacted social activist Gilbert Goh regarding his Facebook post calling on the...
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The Office of Prime Minister Should be Respected
As part of his May Day protest rally, organiser Gilbert Goh had posted on his Facebook page that he planned to bring a huge poster of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He urged those attending to vent...
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Seeing Things From The 'Right' Perspective
We have always been taught since young that if you can't solve a problem, it is because you don't know how to. We give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you tried your best and still can't solve...
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Two subway trains collide in Seoul, 170 people injured
PHOTO: REUTERSSEOUL (REUTERS) – A subway train in the South Korean capital crashed into another one at a station on Friday, injuring about 170 people, news reports and the emergency services said,...
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Roy Ngerng's Speech At The May Day 2014 Protest
I gave a speech at the May Day 2014 Protest yesterday. You can watch the video here:Here is another video which lets you see the response of the crowd:To read more about what was said in the speech,...
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The Results Are In: A Minimum Wage in San Jose and Lessons for Singapore
The result of introducing a minimum wage in San Jose are in (and they are good). First, what is San Jose and is what's happening there relevant to Singapore. San Jose is the third-largest city in...
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Tolerance in society for our stray companion animals
I refer to the online forum letter (“Stray dogs and rats around MRT station”; Friday, 28 March). I disagree with the writer, Mr Tang Lian Tong about the stray dogs behind Bukit Batok MRT station that...
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PM Lee Should Give Govt Jobs to Unemployed Singaporeans to Buy PAP Votes
Recently, one of my civil service friend asked me, "Why do you hate PAP so much until you try to expose their dirty secrets on TRS? Why can't you spend more time looking for a govt job so that you...
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10 reasons and 10 rebuttals on high ministerial salaries
Below are the 10 reasons put up by Roy Ngerng on the govt’s justifications for high ministerial salaries that Roy called 10 logical fallacies. I will attempt to rebut what Roy wrote in defence of the...
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More tolerance needed for our stray animals
Tolerance in society for our stray companion animalsI refer to the online forum letter (“Stray dogs and rats around MRT station“; Friday, 28 March). I disagree with the writer, Mr Tang Lian Tong about...
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Seriously I really wonder is there still a Singapore for Singaporeans!
Will there be singaporeans inside Singapore even ?by the looks of how things are going and happening right now, highly likely possible that the singaporean race is finishedthe current ruling govt does...
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Singapore needs more platforms like TRS to promote Freedom of Speech
Dear TRS,I came across this article in Yahoo! Singapore by Kirsten Han titled 'World Press Freedom Day: Free the mainstream media'. She makes some good points but she is also clearly against websites...
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Signs of Desperation or plain Gangsterism?
As the tide of opinion continues to go against them in the social media, the PAP Internet Brigade appear to be getting more desperate, and dangerous, engaging in harassment, name-calling, defamation...
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How banks (and other industries) get around TAFEP
Banks get around TAFEP by transfering their foreign staff to Singapore. It is cheaper that way for the banks and many of their foreign staff in India, China, the Philippines, Malaysia are more than...
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We have a manpower shortage because employers are too picky
I refer to "Businesses complaining about Manpower Shortage Despite Unemployment Creeping Up" This picture is one confusing puzzle that needs to be solved. How can a country like Singapore say that it's...
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Once A Jolly Hangman: a banned book of stroies from Singapore's Death Row
The contents of this well-researched book were so depraved and disturbing, that it took me several weeks to (1) finish reading the book in its entirety, and (2) gather my thoughts about it in order to...
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Who is right? PM? Heart Truths? Consumer survey?
Recently PM said the problems S’pore were facing were the results of success*. Here I asked: Success what success? Real wages grew by only 0.4% while GDP grew by 5.9%. while the prices of public...
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