Opinion

  At his press conference to announce his retirement from politics in 2015, one of the earlier Transport Ministers Raymond Lim made an interesting and somewhat revealing remark.  He said Lee Kuan Yew once told him helming the transport portfolio...

  And so what was all the commotion about the last one month?  Clash of minister and historian (whose credentials have been queried), clash of historians, clash of politicians and journalist, clash of government agency and would-be website plus so...

We are at a point where a dominant political party is relentlessly pushing its narrative of the events that shaped the nation. With a formidable array of resources at its disposal – think tanks, research centres, universities, even libraries...

So were the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods’ hearings a good chapter in Singapore’s political development or a sham? No, they were necessary. A 10-member parliamentary committee spent time sifting through 170 written representations and another eight days spread...

Are we heading for safer, brighter days or darker ones on the journey to being a truly First World nation? If we take a wrong turn following the Select Committee’s hearings on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, we may sour up...

After three days of hearing by the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, are we already convinced that we need to act? The answer is 50/50. Law Minister K. Shanmugam, Dr Shashi Jayakumar and Dr Michael Raska have observed, in...

  What exactly has been the net gain for Singapore out of the debate on Sylvia Lim’s suspicions that the Government had backtracked on the GST? Zero. I would go further and say we actually ended up with a ridiculous...

Yes, the proposed GST hike will be an election issue, whether the government likes it or not. And it will be hot. The first early indication that it will not be so easy to ram it down the public’s throat...

Do we need to raise the GST? Ah, you may be asking the wrong question. Or are we? “We are not raising the GST now but we are giving you notice that we will be raising it by two percentage...

  Two major but still not quite primary political leaders are in the news right now. Will the pair be heading the teams on both sides of Parliament soon? Will Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat be leading the People’s Action...