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Pink Dot vs Wear White – What's with the trench warfare?
Facebook user Adrian Tan referring to the social media trench warfare between the Wear White and Pink Dot camps said how you don't win people over by making a stand, but by laying down your lives. Adrian who is a Christian has...
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Attorney-General is looking into Tan Wah Piow's appeal to quash his 1975 convictions
Republished from Tan Wah Piow's Facebook.
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Following my last posting on Lord Lester's "Five Ideas to fight for", a certain Kesoi Mok made a comment questioning my integrity. That prompted Tay Kheng Soon, one of Singapore's most creative and original intellectual...
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5 Retirement Problems Singaporeans Don't See Coming
By Rohith Murthy
If you haven’t started saving for your retirement, you really might want to soon. Especially after reading this article. A disturbing number of Singaporeans think they can live like cave-dwelling hermits. When we ask around, we still get...
SG Economy
PA celebrated Singlish as part of national identity
"Using Singlish will make it harder for Singaporeans to learn and use standard English." - Chang Li Lin, press secretary to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, New York Times 2016.
Do you all remember National Day Parade 2015?
Singlish was glamourised on...
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How Kho Jabing affect us all
By: Ghui
Now that Kho Jabing has been hanged and society is no longer divided between the "we should hang him" and "we should not hang him" camps, the aftermath of finger pointing has begun. This is unfortunate because all...
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LETTER: 7 days and still Singhealth did not act on a simple complaint
The following is a letter by one of our reader, Chatterbox.
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The picture shows the waterlogged path of the pedestrian and wheelchair persons entrance to the Tampines Polyclinic. It was taken on 17 May 2016.
I sent information of the waterlogged path to the...
SG Economy
Who else besides PhD holders are qualified to use Singlish in Singapore?
In a letter to the New York Times, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's press secretary, Ms Chang Li Lin, rebutted Singaporean poet Gwee Li Sui's opinion piece headlined “Politics and the Singlish language“.
In rebutting the poet Ms Chang said, “not everyone...
SG Economy
Sharp sting from poet's op-ed – PM Lee's press secretary responds
Poet and literary critic Gwee Li Sui wrote an opinion piece which was published in the International New York Times on May 14-15 with the headline "Politics and the Singlish language". In his piece, Gwee chronicled how years of state efforts to quash...
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Man who assaulted husky explains that he acted in a moment of anxiety
Facebook user Maimunah Mohadi had uploaded two videos showing a man hitting, kicking, dragging and lifting a dog by its neck on a leash. Her post has been shared over 7000 times and has caused much outrage online.The incident allegedly happened this...
SG Economy
Single parents are still discriminated, WP's Li Li Lian
Former Member of Parliament for Punggol East single member constituency, Ms Lee Li Lian was featured in the Workers' Party's second installment of the Working Show. In the show Ms Lee said that she welcomed the recent changes to the...
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British minister Braverman calls out crazy migrant policies at Washington D.C summit
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman gave a speech on September 26 on immigration policies in Washington.
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In A Recent Interview, Lionel Messi Gives The Impression That He And Antonela Roccuzzo Wish To Have A “baby Girl” » Sportsry
In an effort to change the makeup of his team, Lionel Messi and his wife Antonela Roccuzzo have gently expressed a wish for a...
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Black Lives Matter supporter “meatball” now arrested for looting, X users happy justice is served
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Ben Simmons has made a full recovery from back and knee injuries that kept him out of action for the remainder of last year’s...
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Peace Plan: Zelensky furiously demands clarity on “24-hour solution” of Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a furious call to former U.S. President Donald Trump to unveil his “peace plan” to end the ongoing conflict...