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By Elias Tan Clean and green Singapore has a new name: City of Dengue. The deadly mosquito-transmitted disease has claimed its seventh victim this year – a 53-year-old woman who died from dengue on Saturday, 15 November, 2013 – and is...

Ong Siew Chey is on the warpath with the National Environment Agency on dengue. In an exchange of letters with the agency, published in Today, he tells that he has spent years trying to persuade it to eliminate mosquito...

This is a guest post. The author blogs at Jentrified Citizen “Satisfied people don’t have time to go onto the Internet. Unhappy people often go there,” said PM Lee Hsien Loong at a forum yesterday . This comment seems to be...

The Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) notes that MND has rated our town council comparably with the other town councils in the areas of Estate Cleanliness, Estate Maintenance and Lift Performance in the latest Town Council Management Report (TCMR)....

By Elias Tan It started with a song. And that song, modified by the men-in-green and sung in cadence to boost their morale in the midst of an arduous march, contained “misogynist” lyrics that condone violence against women. Although most...

Law professor Walter Woon cited the four constitutional challenges against the government since the 2011 General Election as examples of "diminished diffidence" of our society. He predicted that there would be fewer inhibitions in taking on the government as...

Human rights lawyer M. Ravi tells Elias Tan how he got to know drug courier Yong Vui Kong, what inspired him to save the then 19-year-old from the hangman's noose and how, in return, Yong has taught him the...

By Zach Isaiah Chia A recent IPS survey showed that many people think that NS makes boys into men, a key right of passage into adulthood. Theoretically, this should have empowered Singaporean males to be fighting fit and be resolute...

Internationally renowned zoologist and zookeeper, Bernard Harrison is now confirmed to be the Keynote Speaker at Indonesia’s first Animal Training and Enrichment Conference to be held at the Bali Safari and Marine Park December 1-5, 2013 (ATEC 2013). Bernard Harrison...

By Zach Isaiah Chia In the recent online debate on NS, three areas of concern emerged: conscription, the two-year period of NS and the NSmen experience. In Part One of a three-part series, we look at conscription, especially in relation...