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Having race requirements in elections is a form of racial politics 24 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
We should stop obsessing about racial representation in electoral politics. Trying too hard to ensure “balance” in outcomes carries a very heavy price: tampering with the democratic process until it l...
Healthcare safety net — improvements long overdue 22 Aug 2013 | 02:01 pm
In his 2013 National Day Rally speech, Singapore’s equivalent of a State of the Union address, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong devoted considerable attention to our healthcare safety net and the gaps t...
Book: Legal Consensus, by Tey Tsun Hang 18 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
The book accuses the Singapore judiciary of inexcusable timidity. Our courts engage in “national formalism” and “textual literalism”, and judgements often lack “rigour and depth”, coming as they do wi...
Slightly less homophobic Singapore to protest gay-murdering Russia 14 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
Russia may seem a distant place from Singapore. We have very little trade with it; the language and culture vastly different. But on Saturday, 24 August 2013, a protest demonstration will be held at H...
Less hair, more hope 12 Aug 2013 | 12:35 pm
Sometimes I wish all women with long hair would wear head scarves. Friday night, close to 11 pm, and the metro was packed — though that in itself was not unusual. I was squeezed between two young wom...
Cinema: Menstrual Man 9 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
The title of the film left my friends perplexed. “I have no idea what it’s about,” said one. ”Is it about transgenders?” ventured another. “I hope it’s not a celluloid version of a circus freak show,...
Did Straits Times misreport Tan Chuan-jin? 8 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm
Several Facebook ‘friends’ recently shared a news article from the Straits Times, with comments along the lines of “Here we go again, a minister scolds citizens for criticising the PAP government and ...
Asked to be a snitch, law prof refuses to stay compliant 5 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
It is widely believed that the surveillance state has tentacles reaching everywhere, but only now do we have a hint of it by someone recruited by the system. A short essay in the Australian magazine T...
Coming out in perspective 3 Aug 2013 | 08:50 am
Sayoni’s Coming out, coming home campaign starts today. I wholeheartedly support it. I’ve never really had a coming out myself, at least not in the form of any major event. Maybe because it’s been a ...
In memoriam: my father 1 Aug 2013 | 06:29 am
Au Keng Chu aged 16, 17 or 18, late 1930s He never much wanted to speak about it though one would have thought that living more than three years under brutal Japanese occupation would have been a lif...
