I recently came across this article on the Young PAP website. The article is essentially a condescending piece of rhetoric intended to heap large doses of disdain upon what the writer, a particular Ho Cheow Seng, bluntly calls “The Devotees of Western Democracy and Human Rights”. While I respect the writer’s individual right to express [...]

Viswa Sadasivan seems to be hitting all the right buttons, at least for now. Despite being very adamant about the need for the Singapore Government to change its deeply ingrained (and unfortunately outdated) perception of the attitudes of its own citizens and relinquishing its hard-handed control over the mainstream media, he provides balance to his [...]

kami warga negara Singapura
sebagai rakyat yang bersatu padu
tidak kira apa bangsa, bahasa, atau ugama
berikrar untuk membina suata masyarakat yang demokratik
berdasarkan kepada keadilan dan persamaan
untuk mencapai kebahagian, kemakmuran, dan kemajuan bagi negara kami
I’m Chinese, not Malay. But does it matter? I am Singaporean, and despite the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies which I stand against, this is my [...]

Of course, this report only adds additional detail to that which most people already know. Or at least those who keep track of sources of information aside from the mainstream media. I will not debate the extent of neutrality of this report. Nonetheless, it serves as an authoritative (meaning reliable, not authoritarian!) external reminder of [...]

MOSCOW (Associated Press)
A jury in Moscow voted unanimously Thursday to acquit three men in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, dimming hopes for justice in a case that has mocked Russia’s claims to be a modern democratic nation.
The brazen 2006 slaying of the crusading investigative reporter sent a grim signal to other dissenters in Russia, [...]

Did Mediacorp just make a major leak? Look at the title of the page in this screenshot.

In memory of His Excellency, the Late President Ong Teng Cheong
A man who believed in a Government of the People, By the People, and For the People.
以纪念人民的总统，王鼎昌先生 – 政府的监督者，法律的维护者，永垂不朽的爱国者

Opposition Leader Dr. Chee Soon Juan’s Message to President Obama