WIKILEAKS: PAP CANDIDATES ‘SECOND AND THIRD TIER’

According to leaked cables, Charles Chong admitted that the PAP’s slate in 2006 comprised of “second and third-tier” candidates because the party failed to recruit its preferred choices

WIKILEAKS: LEE KUAN YEW LABELLED ISLAM A ‘VENOMOUS’ RELIGION

Singapore’s elder statesman is alleged to have expressed strong views on Islam in a conversation with a US official, according to leaked cables

WIKILEAKS: SINGAPORE JOURNALISTS FRUSTRATED BY PRESS CONTROLS

Leaked US diplomatic cables reveal a growing disconnect between SPH journalists and editors, and confirm government involvement in the framing of news stories

WIKILEAKS: GOVERNMENT STIFLES ENTREPREURSHIP, HIGHER EDUCATION

Leaked US diplomatic cables reveal, among other things, that GLCs control 60 per cent of the economy and that senior Ministry of Education officials had “no plans” to encourage more Singaporeans to obtain degrees

TONY TAN SCORES A PHYRRIC VICTORY

Though Dr Tony Tan’s slender victory has earned them a five year reprieve, Singapore’s ruling elite will need to come up with solutions fast, because voters are unlikely to forget so quickly

DIVIDED AND CONQUERED

Even though Dr Tony Tan failed to win the hearts and minds of the electorate, he is Singapore’s 7th President because two-thirds of the population did not quite know which candidate to back

REMEMBERING PRESIDENT ONG

As Singapore votes for a new President this Saturday, it is an opportune time for all of us to spend a moment remembering the late President Ong Teng Cheong – fondly remembered as the “People’s President”

TIME TO PUT A STOP TO GRASSROOTS PARTISANSHIP

As long as the People’s Association behaves in a partisan manner and continues with its petty practices of barring opposition MPs, the Prime Minister’s message of national reconciliation will ring hollow, says Cheryl Chan

HAINANESE CLAN ASSOCIATION INVITES TAN JEE SAY TO TEA

The first clan association to express support for any candidate other than Dr Tony Tan, the Hainanese Clan Association holds tea for Tan Jee Say to “wish him good luck”

TAN JEE SAY CROSSES SWORDS WITH TONY TAN OVER ISA

The tension is in the air as Presidential candidates clash over the controversial Internal Security Act – and how the government has used it in the past

TAN JEE SAY: ‘MY SUPPORTERS WERE NOT RIGHT TO BOO TONY TAN’

Presidential candidate refutes suggestions that he is “confrontational” and maintains that he wants his supporters to behave in a “civil” manner

TONY TAN BOOED AT NOMINATION CENTRE

Government-endorsed presidential candidate jeered and heckled by 1,000 strong crowd while addressing the crowd on Nomination Day