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Stallholders in row with WP town council
Hawkers at two Bedok food centres say they never had to pay for scaffolding erected to wash ceilingsBy Joyce Lim, The Sunday Times, 26 May 2013Stallholders at two food centres in Bedok are locked in a...
View ArticleLow: I harbour no ambition to be PM
WP's chief believes details and strategic foresight matter in S'pore's developmentThe Sunday Times, 26 May 2013Workers' Party (WP) chief Low Thia Khiang discussed the state of the opposition in a...
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Make NS meaningful for every recruit
Match soldiers to roles they are interested in, even if it means serving outside SAFBy Chong Zi Liang, The Sunday Times, 26 May 2013After completing basic military training (BMT) back in 2004, two...
View ArticleTime to spell out core values of governance
Policy debate on housing, cars should be guided by vision of S'pore's futureBy Rachel Chang, The Straits Times, 25 May 2013TO SOME worried observers, class envy has poisoned the public discussion over...
View ArticleIlo Ilo is first S'pore film to win at Cannes
Anthony Chen wins Camera d’Or for best first feature film at prestigious Cannes Film FestivalBy Genevieve Sarah Loh, TODAY, 27 May 2013Ilo Ilo has become the first Singaporean feature film to win at...
View Article3-D printing and labour needs
By Andy Ho, The Straits Times, 27 May 2013IN FEBRUARY, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced a $500 million Future of Manufacturing programme, one focus of which was to create a 3-D...
View Article8 in 10 won't intervene in abuse cases: Study
By Lim Yi Han, The Straits Times, 28 May 2013EIGHT out of 10 people here will not intervene if they know a friend or relative is being physically or verbally abused by her partner, a new survey...
View ArticlePM Lee has tea with netizens at the Istana
By Andrea Ong, The Straits Times, 28 May 2013A VETERAN jazz musician and a young woman engineer who became a heroine in an oil rig accident last year had tea with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...
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Silent strokes, a quiet killer
By K Ranga Krishnan, Published TODAY, 29 May 2013 It is not uncommon to see the elderly steadily retreating from activities such as reading, walking or going to play mahjong, losing interest in...
View ArticleNew curbs to limit monthly gambling visits
Rules target the financially vulnerableBy Janice Tai And Lim Yi Han, The Straits Times, 29 May 2013AT LEAST 4,000 financially vulnerable gamblers will face a monthly limit on the number of times they...
View ArticleYouth jobless rate one of world's lowest
It is 6.7% here; grads get quality job offers, says ministerBy Amelia Teng, The Straits Times, 29 May 2013SINGAPORE'S youth unemployment rate is one of the lowest in the world at 6.7 per cent, Acting...
View ArticleSingapore to set up third law school
It will focus on criminal, family law due to lack of lawyers in these fieldsBy Tham Yuen-c, The Straits Times, 29 May 2013SINGAPORE is to set up a third law school that will emphasise criminal and...
View ArticleMDA rolls out licence scheme for news websites
Govt: Move to ensure consistency of treatment with traditional platformsBy Leonard Lim And Tessa Wong, The Straits Times, 29 May 2013NEWS websites that provide regular reports on Singapore and have...
View ArticleServing up a good deal for hawkers
Building more hawker centres is the easier part in any revamp of this iconic institution. A mindset change all-round is needed too. It's a "wok" in progress.By Feng Zengkun, The Straits Times, 30 May...
View ArticleMaking transport socially equitable
A surcharge for a second car? Why not? Equity and fairness are important considerations in land transport policy.By Christopher Tan, The Straits Times, 30 May 2013THE concept of fairness in the land...
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Protecting nature reserves a key consideration
WE REFER to Wednesday's letters ("Rethink route of Cross Island MRT line" by Mr Chia Yong Soong; and "Cross Island Line: LTA must be proactive in engaging stakeholders" by Mr Eugene Tay Tse Chuan,...
View ArticleDoing the right thing by Singapore pioneers
By Devadas Krishnadas, Published TODAY, 31 May 2013The 50th anniversary of the independence of Singapore will be in 2015. It is by all measures a significant milestone. We were once a people with...
View ArticleInterns are protected under the Employment Act
We refer to the letter by Mr Adrian Tan, “Govt should have measures to protect interns” (May 27), in which he stated inaccurately that interns are not covered under the Employment Act.The Employment...
View ArticleScrap COVs, they say, but S’poreans also want to monetise flats
By Sumita Sreedharan, TODAY, 31 May 2013Singaporeans want flats to be affordable but also want to make a tidy sum when they sell their units, if the views of participants at Wednesday’s Our Singapore...
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Why do Singaporeans serve national service?
Covered in sweat, eaten by insects, the writer ponders during a recent rural night exercise:By Christopher De Souza, Published The Straits Times 1 Jun 2013EARLY this year, I celebrated reunion dinner...
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