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The banning of To Singapore with Love: The unforgiving father and his lost...
MDA announced the "Not Allowed for All Ratings" classification for Tan Pin Pin's film "To Singapore, With Love" and it helped the film shoot from obscurity to instant stardom. MDA's aim of curtailing...
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Wrong to credit Singapore’s transformation to Lee Kuan Yew
I refer to the 18 Mar 2013 Straits Times report of your video presentation to the Australian Mines and Metals Association during which you urged Australia to learn from the successful economic policies...
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Why MDA?
To Singapore With Love, directed by Ms Tan Pin Pin is about Home, the longing for home to be more precise.The film is not about the MCP or a call to join the MCP which no longer exists. Neither does...
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A common practice in Singapore for India companies to hire their own people
It is a known fact that Indian companies bring in their compatriots because they are cheaper amongst other reasons.In Singapore, many Indian companies, state owned or private companies employ only 1...
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Singaporean Studying Overseas: Are PRC graduates worthy of our job and...
Dear The Real Singapore, I am a Singaporean student who is residing abroad to study university overseas overseas. I have somehow given up on our education system because of the large influx of foreign...
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Did PAP Take Our CPF to Pay for the GIC’s and Temasek’s Losses?
Earlier last month, the Worker’s Party’s Gerald Giam asked Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam:… specifically on the eight years in the past 20 years where GIC’s...
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Singapore is just a card game to PM Lee
Dear PM Lee,You said we have to call a Spade a Spade. So you took away the Diamonds intended for our old age. You then used the Clubs to inflict on & beat your challengers so that we can never know...
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History is about everyone's views and experiences and it should not be censored
In our humble opinion, the beauty of history lies in its multifaceted approach where different groups of people have different experiences and interpretations in different circumstances over the same...
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Damnation of memory
A picture paints a thousand words. A famous photograph was taken of Joseph Stalin’s visit to the White Sea Canal sometime between 1936 and 1938. The small man to Stalin’s left was the “poison dwarf”...
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How and why we should be more aware of what we say about foreigners in Singapore
Before I start on the actual content of my article, I would like to say that I will be dead honest in what I write. Some may call it 'insensitive' but I hope no one is offended by it. I will say...
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Disappearing Act by Taxi Drivers Angered Commuters
It’s been the long time that I had written in the blog as I had concentrate my posting in my facebook. With the recent article in the straits times, It probe me to continue writing here.The articles:...
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Who is threatening Singapore's National Security?
How very strange. Despite the billions spent on military hardware to protect the island state, Singapore is apparently so fragile that it has to to ban an internationally acclaimed 70-minute film...
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EIU Creativity Report confirms that SG lacks democracy and free debate
We refer to the article “Singapore ranked 8th in creative productivity in Asia” (Channel NewsAsia, Sep 12).“Democracy and free debate are critical”?It states that “The EIU said: “The reasons behind...
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The chapter of Singapore’s history the PAP doesn’t want you to know.
Recently, “To Singapore, with love”, a film about the lives of Singapore’s political exiles, was banned by the MDA. Unsurprisingly, this lead to an uproar among Singaporeans, especially on the...
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As local born Singaporeans, we should boycott watching the film 1965
Dear TRS,I was filling with rage when I read the news re Media Corp's selection of two FT (foreign trash), namely Qi Yu Wu from China and Deanna Yusoff from Malaysia, as the leading actor and actress...
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A Singaporean Family messed up by Father, Government & PRC women (Part 1)
Recently, there was a video of a Singaporean woman confronting her husband’s China mistress that went viral. Then, there was a news report of a PRC study mama who confessed to having affairs with two...
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CNBC: The new Scotland should aim to be the 'Singapore' of Europe?
An independent Scotland could take marketing lessons from Singapore's business-friendly, trade-dependent economy, the world's largest advertising group told CNBC."From a sort of marketing, trade and...
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4 in 10 spend less than 6 hours a week with family?
We refer to the article “Poll reveals 9 in 10 want more family time” (Channel NewsAsia, Sep 13).Spend 6 or less hours with family in a week?Isn’t it shocking that “four in 10 respondents said they...
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Dr Shankar – Would NUS World Rankings be affected?
Background story: NBC News: NUS hired an Associate Professor with a fake PhD who later moved to USThe revelation of a ‘genius’ professor (Singapore has this fetish craving for geniuses) who was an...
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Matching JB toll hikes: Singapore government's core value of greed
A cheer must have gone up in PM Lee’s cabinet at the news that LTA has finally fixed Oct 1 as the day to increase tolls at the Woodlands Checkpoint.The objective LTA said was to match any Malaysian...
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