| July |
Thursday morning at the Novotel
- musings about identity and symbols over coffee
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| June |
Orchard Road: boom, bust, stuck and shut
- Singapore is good at building shopping malls, but other issues
aren't well tackled
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Key concerns about internet deregulation emerge at forum
- racial and religious speech, political videos and how would
community moderation work?
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Why only 'practical NGOs' and for economic reasons?
- Vinita Ramani finds such an attitude appalling
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Did unbridled capitalism leave people vulnerable to oil and food price rises?
- why after 50 years of economic growth, are millions of people
so easily tipped into hunger?
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Norway legalises gay marriage
- complete with equal parenting rights
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Rainbow rising in the Western sky
- gay equality to get support of UK embassies; how the Straits
Times deals with news about pride parades
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Gopalan Nair's quickie press conference
- an inside peek into how news is generated
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Pity that Youthquake 2 didn't make it to the Richter scale
- low turnout, but the forum series is an important program for
the Workers' Party
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The Singapore Democratic Party: method or madness?
- people often say: how can they ever win?
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We duds at the pinnacle of evolution
- just by using our transport system, it's hard to believe we
humans are smart
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Whose misbehaviour diminishes us all?
- political theatre in Singapore courts as SDP leaders and
supporters are charged
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Attorney-General says
"human rights now a religion" with fanatics - and
insists that human rights is a political question, not one of
law
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A family's invisibles
- guest writer Zeal's grandmother passed away; who came to the
wake?
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Necessary conditions for economic growth and the varnished truth
- the story about an independent commission's work was tweaked
into an "I told you so" for the Singapore government
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| May |
The second Burmese conversation
- what do the Burmese themselves think of recent events: the
cyclone relief efforts and the referendum?
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The displacement of reason
- the full text of the (long) talk I gave at a Catholic forum on
homosexuality
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From Azerbaijan with camp
- the wonders of Eurovision 2008 and American Idol Season 7
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Where are we now with stem cell research?
- private funding has dried up, it's another decades-long
investment with public money
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We're prepared to listen, says government
- while sending all kinds of signals that they'll clobber you
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Cuba holds anti-homophobia event
- while at a Catholic forum, a frenzied attempt is made to prove
homosexuality an illness
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The unnatural afterlife of the Section 377A debate
- Prof Douglas Sanders, who was banned from speaking here last
year, is speaking here this week
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Long term investments or long shots?
- the GIC invests for the very long term, but the news in the
short term can be unnerving
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Burma should be suspended from Asean
- time to stop pussyfooting around their failure to do their
best for cyclone victims
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Gay marriage victory in California Supreme Court
- the state is the 2nd in the US to offer same-sex marriage
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Stop demolishing, start integrating
- Tan Mingjuan calls for a rethink of urban planning in
Singapore
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Hong Kong broadcasting regulator's decision overturned by court
- while our MDA acts like some moral policeman run amok
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Here's proof: Section 377A being enforced
- a man has just been found guilty under the anti-gay law after
the prime minister suggested that gay citizens have nothing to
fear
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In the eye of the
cyclone stands immobile the junta - a bad situation is made
worse
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The pigeons are already among us
- why we should free up regulation of socially-sensitive speech
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Guilty until proven innocent: the case of William Ding
- how homophobic panic can pervert justice
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Packable politics and its press
- detention escapee question is packed away on command; would
the investment in UBS be next?
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HIV hits new high. Solution: punish
- even as HIV incidence climbs, the government has no new ideas
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| Apr |
China and (inter)nationalism
- the Chinese view of the international order is out of step
with the times
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Watch it! Part 2
- TV commercials with a gay angle that isn't negative
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Rice price as capitalism's vice
- the current problem of high food prices is not just a matter
of supply and demand
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Upholding our 'fine city' reputation
- another TV station is fined for "promoting"
homosexuality because a reality show had a gay couple in it
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The great hunt: more management failures than guards' lapses
- Wong Kan Seng was both detailed and fumbling in explaining Mas
Selamat's escape
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Prosecute or nothing
- what's rotten about the regulation of speech in Singapore is
not just about this rule or that rule, but the entire way it's
done
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Watch it! Part 1
- the gay (and racial) minorities are either unrepresented in
advertising or ineptly so
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Political activism, cyber or otherwise
- thoughts after a forum featuring Malaysians Nathaniel Tan of
Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Steven Gan, the founder of
Malaysiakini
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Lee Hsien Loong calls on world to kowtow to China
- the protests around the Olympic torch relay are
counter-productive, he says
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Ban-happy
Singapore - more fines and bans by our state censors, in
their attempt to stop the world
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The mathematics of elections 2
- data from the last 4 general elections support the "homogenising
effect" theory of GRCs
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Why the Films Act should be trashed
- the law's becoming a sick joke
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The children we leave behind
- by our rigid habits of thought, we perpetuate a legacy of hurt
children
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Cinema: Lion City
- Singapore's first Chinese-language production is precious in
its own way
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| Mar |
Hotel Singapore now officially gay-friendly
- Kerry Sieh, a gay scientist, is wooed to Singapore
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Improving the Internal Security Act
- the wide discretionary powers need oversight
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What to do with the Tibetan question?
- as protests erupt in and around Tibet, it's time to clarify
our own position
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Cinema: Slam and Bangkok Love Story
- 2 films, one very good, the other very bad
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The mathematics of elections
- what would Singapore's parliament look like if the PAP
suffered a vote shift like Barisan Nasional did in Malaysia?
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Street work ain't for us
- Singaporeans don't seem to be as entrepreneurial as some
migrants
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Any lessons from the Malaysian general election for us?
- or is Singapore entirely different?
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The great hunt: bunker chaos
- trying to make sense of why information about Mas Selamat
Kastari's escape come out in dribs and drabs
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Sex is all around, get over it
- condoms, kamasutra chocolate and lots of "filth" on
TV and film
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The great hunt limps along
- an alleged terrorist has vanished for 6 days. Is someone
hiding him?
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Be meek and be dispossessed
- bad service and bad behaviour persist because we don't speak
up
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