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Unequal and excluded: Singapore’s first inequality
by Yong Sheng Wong I GRADUATED this week. I read PPE at Oxford. A lot of my graduating peers, British or otherwise, may not have found their education here particularly spectacular. It is increasingly...
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EP changes: When to stop clipping the President’s wings
by Bertha Henson REFERENDUM is not a word that is part of the political lexicon in Singapore, but it was in vogue more than 25 years ago when the Elected Presidency (EP) concept was mooted. You see,...
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Question in Parliament about… Bilahari?
by Bertha Henson IT LOOKS like the on-off slugfest between opposition politicians and Ambassador-at-Large Bilahari Kausikan is getting an airing in Parliament. Among the questions filed for oral...
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And in the Rest of the World: Heads rolling…
POLITICAL leaders around the world seem to be quitting the national stage, whether through resignation, by force and even death. We share with you some key changes. NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister John...
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After GE2015, how did first-time MPs perform in Parliament?
by Kwan Jin Yao HOW should one evaluate the performance of Members of Parliament (MPs) in Singapore? One way is to look at their parliamentary record: the number of times they spoke or the number of...
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Women on the ministerial path
by Sharanya Pillai AND now there are two. Five years ago, Singapore celebrated having a full female minister in Ms Grace Fu, who took the helm at the Prime Minister’s Office, and earned her own...
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And in the rest of the world: Religion gets political
IF RUNNING a country is like building a house of cards, then perhaps there is one card that is more crucial than the others: Religion. Few other forces have the kind of power religion does – that can...
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Peter Ho lectures: Of elephants in the room that are black
by Bertha Henson MR PETER Ho isn’t like Mr Ho Kwon Ping, the entrepreneur who threw a couple of grenades when he was the first to take on the S R Nathan lectures. Nor is he like Mr Bilahari Kausikan,...
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#SumiKok: The bee hoon be $25
by Kok Wei Liang THE two press officers who undoubtedly chose White Restaurant for Education Minister Ong Ye Kung’s lunch with me did an excellent job. They selected a place in the sleepy provincial...
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#SumiKok: Eat drink woman $30
by Kok Wei Liang THIRTY. Thirty, is the age where a single woman is no longer expected to laugh demurely at nosy relatives asking why she is still single during Chinese New Year, and can choose...
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When a Minister becomes an ex-Minister
by Bertha Henson THAT was an unorthodox move by the People’s Action Party (PAP) G – to move a full Cabinet minister into the Speaker’s chair. It was such a surprise that many a political analyst had...
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Whither the civil service? The risks of the loss of PAP dominance
By Adrian W J Kuah IN HIS article published in The Straits Times on Oct 1, “The politics of dominance: Don’t take it to the limit”, Mr Han Fook Kwang identified the consequences of prolonged dominance...
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