Commissioner of Police: “There is a hint of lawlessness in Geylang”
By Yasmeen Banu On the 25th of March, the third week into the Committee of Inquiry for the Little India Riot, Police Commissioner Ng Joo Hee said that although the riot did happen in Little India,...
View ArticleLack of resources by Singapore Police to tackle increase in foreign workers
By Tiffany Gwee According to Commissioner of Police, Ng Joo Hee, in Tuesday’s Committee of Inquiry (COI) hearing, the Police lack the resources to tackle the increase in population and the potential...
View ArticleProtection of whistle blowers and filing of civil suits suggested for...
By Yasmeen Banu Over the years, Singapore has dealt with reoccurring haze situations and managed to get past it. The city state has been affected by haze resulting from land or forest fires in...
View ArticlePosters at City Hall MRT question the consumption of meat
Posters at City Hall MRT station pair a pet and a farmed animal, and ask commuters, “Why Love One But Eat the Other?” Passengers boarding and alighting from trains at City Hall MRT station can look...
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Shop seeks assistance in indentifying culprit filmed on CCTV
By Terry Xu On Monday morning, KOT Selections, a wine importing company found its doors damaged along with other items in the shop. As the shop was closed on Sunday and no one knew what happened the...
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Singapore’s Yeo Yann Yann scores award at “The Oscars of Asia” – 8th Asian...
The 8th Asian Film Awards (AFA) award ceremony, dubbed the “Asian Oscars”, was held on Friday night at the House of Dancing Water Theatre in the City of Dreams, Macau. The 8th AFA was jointly organized...
View ArticleGeylang – MP expresses frustration, wants “major clean up”
By Yasmeen Banu In a rather frustrated posting online, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Marine Parade GRC has lashed out at the authorities for the “very long” wait “for the higher authorities to effect...
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FreeMyInternet: Concerns over registration request on Mothership
The FreeMyInternet group issued the following statement in response to the Media Development Authority’s request for political news website Mothership to register under the Broadcasting Act. * * * * *...
View ArticleMothership.sg accedes to MDA’s request to be registered
In a statement on Thursday, the Media Development Authority (MDA) said it had notified Project Fisher-Men Pte Ltd, a social enterprise on March 27 that its website, Mothership.sg is to be registered...
View ArticlePhilippines theater group to stage play about S’poreans & Lee Kuan Yew
Earlier this year, it was announced there are going to be two separate musicals on former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. It has now appeared that one of the plays will be staged by a Philippine theatre...
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“Dangerous general assumptions to have”
By Terry Xu The second hearing of the coroner’s report to establish the causes behind the death of National Serviceman Private (Pte) Ganesh Pillay Magindren, 23, took place at the State court on last...
View ArticleS’pore Medical Council suspends Woffles Wu for 4 months
The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) has suspended surgeon Woffles Wu for 4 months for the traffic incident in 2012. Here is the full statement from the SMC: 1. The Singapore Medical Council (“SMC”)’s...
View Article“They killed him and left me alone”– father of NSman
By Terry Xu State coroner Imran Abdul Hamid delivered his findings on the Coroner’s Inquiry into the death of Private (Pte) Ganesh Pillay Magindren on Tuesday afternoon. Ganesh was found dead at the...
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Don’t blindly trumpet achievements in standardised tests
The following is the original letter of the one published in the TODAY newspaper on Wednesday, 9 April. Pic: CNA By Perry Tan Singapore students recently came up tops in a PISA problem solving test...
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MDA’s response to petition to shut down Stomp: “Propose how the standards...
In its reaction to the petition to shut down the Straits Times’ voyeurism site, STOMP, the Media Development Authority (MDA) has invited the public to suggest how a site such as STOMP be handled. The...
View ArticleNewsbites – stress, beer and babies (not what you think)
Young professional getting stressed Media today reported that more young professionals are getting stressed at work. It seems that the extra-long work hours have led to medical problems, including...
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Man dies from injuries from self-immolation at Johor Baru
Image credit: China Press Liu Shun Qiang, the 42-year-old Singaporean who set himself on fire on Saturday has succumbed to his injuries at about 10pm in Johor Baru (JB) last night. Liu was earlier...
View ArticleNewsbites – of NMPs, homes and home-front
Nominate your NMP! Public nominations for Nominated Members of Parliament open today. The submissions will then be sent to the Special Select Committee of Parliament, who will further select from the...
View ArticleNewsbites – of Singapore Girl, Singtel Grid Girl, and other stories
Singapore Girl takes over Singtel Grid Girl Singapore Airlines will be the new title sponsors of the Singapore F1 Race, following SingTel. The full title of the race will be – take a deep breath - the...
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Rental hike forcing another eating house to close
By Terry Xu A well-known eating house especially amongst the local elderly for its roasted duck and Hong Kong style roast products, will be closing on 28th April. It is another of several old...
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