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The following is a media statement from the civil society members SINGAPORE - We deplore the statement issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs in respect of the late Mr Dinesh Raman s/o Chinniah, entitled Statement regarding the case of...

By Gaurav Sharma While 33% Malays said that they have never faced racial discrimination in Singapore when applying for a job, 19% said they faced it rarely, 28% sometimes, 12% often and 8% said they always faced it. For Indians,...

A Singapore race relations survey showed fewer than half the respondents had a close friend from another race. Since children make friends at school, the solution is obvious By Glenn Lim People like comfort zones. That is why they are called...

Life abroad as an outsider can help one understand what ethnic minorities go through By Tang Li I spent a good part of my life as an “ethnic minority.” From the age of 11, all the way to 19, home was...

By Elvin Ong The policy changes in education, housing and healthcare announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day Rally this year have drawn plaudits from most mainstream commentators for both the substance and the rhetoric. They...

By Tom Plate From Los Angeles Lee Kuan Yew, whom I first interviewed in 1996, was always a terrific interview and if you ask Western journalists how many public figures they can say this of, you may be surprised at how...

One may choke to death, overpowered by others till one is unable to breathe. But, though fatal, that is not a “severe injury”. That is one of the things you learn from the Ministry of Home Affairs’ statement on the...

By Kumaran Pillai Former presidential candidate Tan Jee Say has been invited to eat mooncakes with the Chiams. But “it is no ordinary mooncake,” said one SPP member, “it is a political mooncake that is going to define politics in...

By PN BALJI Editor, The Independent Singapore The city-state of Singapore appears to have run squarely into a mid-life crisis nine years after Lee Hsien Loong became prime minister, and two years after an embarrassing general election outing by his ruling...

By Chanel Morgan Prospects for the lowest income earners in Singapore look to be getting even tougher. Without an official poverty line, and being the third richest country in the world, shouldn’t we strive to be a more charitable nation? Our country is...