The following are excerpts of an interview with Kirsten Han, a prominent Singaporean blogger and activist, with an interest in social justice and human rights. The interview appeared in Mumbrella. What’s the secret to growing a following as a blogger in...

By Kumaran Pillai Malaysia, along with China, is one of the most corrupt nations in the world, according to an Asia-Pacific Fraud Survey Report Series 2013. Speaking at a Media Law Policy forum in Hong Kong, Malaysian civil rights lawyer Malik...

By Mary Lee A life-long lesson for the ruling People’s Action Party in how-not-to-win-votes has to be the White Paper on Population. Seen in calm hindsight, it was a typical policy paper, published after controlled feedback sessions with – one...

By Tan Bah Bah Times have changed and yet they have really not – at least judging from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s criticism of commentator Koh Buck Song. PM Lee prefers that we continue to regard the country as an...

By Augustine Low Singapore: First World, Cosmopolitan City, Shining Metropolis. But still a sampan. How incongruous that Singapore should still see itself as a sampan, after all that the country has achieved, and all the talk about how the country is consistently...

Former minister Raymond Lim says the next stage of  Singapore’s development “is dependent on the young Singaporeans… whether we move from one party dominance to a two-party see-saw”. Young Singaporeans are just one deciding factor. There are many other issues that will...

By Abhijit Nag I thought I was on an island. Now I am all at sea. Is this a cruise ship I am on, a sampan, a work boat, a luxury liner? No, this isn’t the Anchor beer speaking. I am...

By Eimear Elkington Having only recently arrived in Singapore I find myself constantly checking out new places to visit. Whether it’s cafes, shops, restaurants or bars, I want to experience the Singapore sights, especially once the sun goes down and...

  Singapore lawyer and academic Jothie Rajah has come out with a book, Authoritarian Rule of Law, on how the government has used the law to systematically dismantle political liberalism. The book has been hardly talked about because the media...

I refer to your post "Our vote is not cheap, you need to earn it" on 28 October by Kumaran Pillai. I would like to point out the gross inaccuracies and blatant omissions that were carried in the article. You...