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crooks and liars
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23 January 2026
Did the Workers Party respond correctly to PM Wong's challenge?
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It's been a long road, getting there to here. In 2021, Raeesah Khan (WP-Sengkang) attempted to besmirch the reputation of the Singapore ...
14 July 2022
Did the New Naratif Civil War destroy New Naratif?
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In April 2022, New Naratif raised the alarm . For the very first time, despite several years of releasing "accountability reports"...
10 January 2018
Keppel and Lava Jato corruption: Is there a cover-up in Singapore?
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News of Keppel Offshore & Marine's (Keppel O&M) decade-long bribery in Brazil has filtered slowly into Singapore. The initial an...
03 January 2018
Is corruption part of Singapore's foreign policy?
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Singapore tolerates no corruption internally, especially within the ranks of its public service. Officials who are accused face thorough inv...
12 January 2016
Blind men and the elephant: Chua Mui Hoong describes crony capitalism in Singapore
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You've probably heard about the blind men and the elephant. In the dominant narrative, the moral of the story one should learn is the l...
13 November 2015
Rethinking the haze and Indonesia
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Tiny and rich Singapore flails comically when it comes to Indonesia and the haze. For all its claims to being a diplomatic giant on the w...
25 November 2012
Book Review: Freedom From the Press by Cherian George II
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( Read Part I here ) The curious rhetorical device of Cherian George Some time back, Cherian George published a book called "Freedo...
07 August 2011
Bringing the gavel down on Workers Party I
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MSN builds campaign against WP and Sylvia Lim There is an unfolding situation over at Aljunied-Hougang Town Council. No doubt it's bee...
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07 June 2011
Paul Krugman repudiates High Broderism
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The body of David S Broder lies cold in the ground where he is interred but Paul Krugman sees the need to repudiate the zombie idea of High...
08 March 2011
From civil service to political service
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If the leaders of the People's Action Party have been more than truthful, their star recruits for the next election will feature senior ...
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04 March 2011
Tharman Shammugaratnam's crowning clown moment
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Economic illiterate or discombobulator? Finance minister Tharman Shammugaratnam (PAP-Jurong) continues to perform his clown routine in parli...
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01 March 2011
The PAP clown show continues! (GST edition)
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This is not your reading for the week. We are suspending your readings for this week and indeed for many months to come. That is because we ...
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26 September 2007
Malicious, mendacious, and meretricious
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Recently in the news, 3 major challenges facing Singapore getting some discussion in the current Parliament session. 1. The re-tweaking of C...
14 September 2007
Holy real estate, Batman!
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Via Asiabuilders : Capitaland joins with Rock Productions (aka the business arm of New Creation Church!) to build a $600 million lifestyle h...
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20 July 2005
The peanut that launched a thousand ships
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Even more non-moralistic musings on NKF From today's Parliament proceedings, it appears more certain that the Minister of Health, Khaw B...
16 July 2005
He who lives by the peanut...
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More non-moralistic musings on NKF The NKF prides itself as a charity run on a commercial model. "Social entrepeneurship", accordi...
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14 July 2005
Get that Man a Peanut!
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Non-moralistic musings on NKF ... are hard to come by these days, with everyone baying for the hide of T.T. Durai, the National Kidney Found...
16 September 2004
Hall of Shame and Notoriety
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Flip Flopper Number 1 Via DFA 2.0 , which identifies the most outrageous flip-flopper in American politics. It was Dick Cheney, but not as y...
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