By Augustine Low Singer Cheryl Cole, actress Angelina Jolie and the Duchess of Cambridge have been voted as having the world’s best smiles. If such a poll is conducted in Singapore, the smart money is on the public figure with the...

By David Simon American author and journalist. This is an edited extract of a talk given at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney.  America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its...

I'm writing on behalf of The Straits Times about a post in your site  which wrongly attributed remarks to us https://theindependent.sg.sg/little-india-riots-afterthoughts/  "The  government must take a serious look at how foreign workers are treated in  Singapore. Over the years, they...

Here is a somewhat heated, but civilised, debate on Facebook after journalist Ian De Cotta posted a link to a report on the Little India riot. Trish Chan was a Singapore journalist before moving to San Francisco.   Trish Chan: This ...

As expected, the focus was on the behaviour of the social media. What about that of the good boy of Singapore journalism, the mainstream media? The reporting by MSM on the first day, Dec 10, was pathetic. The Straits Times had...

Will Singaporeans stop blaming foreigners for everything big and small that goes wrong? I am not condoning the Little India violence by any means, but whose idea was it to gentrify the area? Why can't people understand that every $20-a-meal...

Workfare in place, wages are either stagnating or even declining in some cases, raising questions over chances of social mobility in Singapore IN Singapore's yearbook of manpower statistics, 2013, published by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), it is revealed that...

You get a flat, I get a flat, EVERYBODY gets a flat! At the rate HDB is going, they'll soon be handing out door keys with every purchase above $17 at a petrol kiosk. Probably because one of them...

Minister K Shanmugam said that the Malay community made good progress in the last 10 years at the LBKM Bursary presentation held on the 23rd of November. He further went on to say that the Government will continue to...

By Elias Tan Singapore is relatively stingy: America, Europe and Japan together donated US $76 million to the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan while Singapore pledged to give S$50,000. As expected, netizens slammed the government for not doing...