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PAP Punggol East MP Charles Chong suffer liver failure, given 8 weeks...

PAP MP of Punggol East, Charles Chong, revealed that he suffered liver failure and had undergone through a liver transplant operation in his Facebook post last night (Dec 20). The PAP MP will be away...

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India: Singapore government helps the rich to evade tax by round-tripping

In a local Indian media interview today (Dec 21), India Finance Minister Arun Jaitley confirmed that the Singapore government is guilty of helping rich Indian nationals evade taxes in India by...

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Lee Hsien Loong on 10-day holiday with S$200K bonus

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be on vacation from today (Dec 22) until New Year Eve (Dec 31), with a civil servant bonus of at least S$200,000 in his bank account. While he is away, Singapore’s...

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PAP MP Charles Chong contest for lucrative MP salary despite knowing liver...

In a Facebook post yesterday (Dec 21) Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen defend PAP MP Charles Chong claiming that the S$16,000/mth MP was “courageous”. Members of the public accused MP Charles Chong of...

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Singapore dollar hits 7-year-low

One of the strangest Singaporean ego has taken a beating: the Singapore dollar hit a 7-year-low. As of Tuesday (Dec 20), the Singapore dollar was S$1.4506 against the US dollar, and is likely to...

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China infuriated by Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen’s comment referring Taiwan as...

According to Chinese media reports, China is particularly offended at Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen’s statement made on Nov 29 referring Taiwan as a country: “People know where we train openly...

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Minister Chan Chun Sing add 2 more assistants to existing 6 in NTUC

Singapore government trade union, NTUC, created 4 new executive-level positions to assist the . Two retiring PAP MPs, Ang Hin Kee and Yeo Guat Kwang, are earmarked for the new position known as...

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SMRT break record: Train service break down 3 times in less than a day

SMRT broke its own record of unreliability today (Dec 23): there are 3 incidents of train breakdown in less than a day. Around 7.30pm last evening (Dec 22) during the peak hour period, SMRT reported...

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Singapore national football team ranked 165th by FIFA

Just yesterday (Dec 22), FIFA ranked Singapore’s national football team 165th – a fall of 3 places – one of the worst in the world like its newspaper ranking at 154th. Like Singapore Press Holdings,...

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PAP MP Baey Yam Keng: Singaporeans are ignorant because they don’t read...

In response to the recent survey finding that Singaporeans ranked the 8th most ignorant in the world, PAP MP Baey Yam Keng said that Singaporeans are ignorant because they don’t read hardcopy...

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US Immigration accept and process Amos Yee’s application for asylum

The United States immigration department accepted Singapore’s persecuted political prisoner Amos Yee’s application for asylum and is now processing his application. Based on the US Immigration and...

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Singapore Police demand work permit for overseas video conferencing participant

The Singapore government stepped up on its thought-control regimie by demanding for a work permit of a Hongkong-based video conferencing participant who joined a local discussion on democracy. If the...

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China masseur molest Japanese woman during massage in Singapore

A 33-year-old China national working as a masseur at a massage parlour at People’s Park Complex was sentenced to 11 months’ jail and 3 strokes of the cane for molesting a 47-year-old Japanese woman...

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Singapore’s “best education system” not translated in employment and equality

In a media interview to his survey on PISA ranking of students, National University of Singapore (NUS) economics lecturer Dr. Kelvin Seah revealed that students with “better-quality” tuition perform...

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The Real Singapore out from prison

Former editor and owner of The Real Singapore (TRS), Yang Kai Heng and Ai Takagi, are now out of prison and steadily getting their lives back together. In April and May this year, the couple were...

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Singapore Defence Ministry not complying with One-China policy

In a public statement by Singapore Defence Ministry, the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said that it has “communicated its formal position” to the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region...

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Human Rights Watch: Amos Yee has been consistently harassed for criticizing...

In a media interview with Associated Press (AP), Human Rights Watch (HWR) deputy director Phil Robertson confirmed that teenager film-maker Amos Yee has been consistently harassed by the Singapore for...

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Singapore is indeed the sick man of Asia

This article is written in response to Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ ambassador-at-large Professor Tommy Koh, you may read his original post on state media Straits Times here. It is a bitter fact, and...

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Video: Severe rain water leaking at Toa Payoh HDB Lift

A video of a severe rain water leak in a HDB lift raises alarm and fear among Toa Payoh residents of the quality of HDB works these days. According to the resident who took the video on Christmas Eve...

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Survey: Singapore’s pupil-teacher ratio among the worst in the world

An international survey on talent by IMD Business School found that Singapore is one of the worst countries in education development among 61 countries. The report,, IMD World Talent Report 2016,...

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