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In Hamlet, he lamented, “…to be or not to be: that is the question”. In Singapore, there have been proposed changes to divorce laws. The real issue is not all changes are to be welcomed but that some have...

By Sunny Tan The average Singaporean might be surprised to find out that there are Myanmarese people in Singapore, 150,000 strong, who want to go back to their own country after working here. They will wonder why the Myanmarese prefer to...

Dancer Goh Lay Kuan tells the story of  a fly that got the people of the TV station at Caldecott Hill hot under the collar. She tells Singapolitics: “Once, there was a fly when he (Lee Kuan Yew) arrived  to...

By Nicole Chang and Trinity Chua “They never call us by our names. “Five years, I have been here. Whenever they need me to pick up a new piece of item, or to get them a different-sized blouse, they call me...

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has called for fairer work practices for workers in Singapore, amid tightening labour market. DPP’s secretary-general, Ben Pwee said, “The workforce in Singapore belongs to Singapore, not to any corporates, political parties, trade unions or...

Mei Yun is from the Pioneer Generation. But she always declines, if you try to coax her, to visit a doctor for her swollen feet. Forget then, any attempt to introduce the complicated healthcare benefits for the Pioneer Generation...

Employment of older workers in Singapore is the centre of concern for this year’s May Day. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has nodded in favour to extend the re-employment age beyond 65, while Workers’ Party has expressed concern that more...

By Trinity Chua and Nicole Chang Mei Yun*, 55, and Ya Zhu*, 67, will tell you, without rancour, to leave their flat alone. When the sisters open the door, food crumbs linger on the table, flies dance on top. The one-room...

In September 2013, The Independent Singapore reported on Senior Minister of State for Education Ms Indranee Rajah’s observation on the perceived need for tuition that “the key to that is the parents’ mindset and belief. We hope the message...

By Tan Bah Bah Denmark is now virtually untouchable.  No matter what the physical world may become, Denmark will exist in the cyberworld, accordig to BBC News. The Scandinavian kingdom has been recreated, to scale, within the virtual world of Minecraft. Copenhagen...