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by Andrew Loh, The Online Citizen
In his press statement, Nair said, "I did not at anytime send any emails to judge Belinda Ang or anyone else as far as this incident is concerned."
by Aidil Omar, Sheep City
Such is the fear among the people.
by Melanie Lee, Reuters
A U.S. lawyer already facing a charge of insulting a Singapore judge was indicted on Thursday in a Singapore court for disparaging another member of the bench in an email he sent two years ago.
by AFP
Singapore's military has suspended its physical and endurance training for three days after two recruits died this week, the defence minister says.
by Cowboy Caleb
So Singaporeans make good managers in a stable environment where the status quo is to be maintained. Malaysians however thrive in chaotic situations with no clear instructions by behaving like leaders.
by Straits Times
Asean members must not set artifiical deadlines for the creation of a new institution just for the sake of setting up one, said Singapore's second foreign affairs minister Raymond Lim on Thursday.
In particular, he said advancing the human rights agenda within the regional grouping should be achieved through an evolutionary approach and any new Asean institution must have the support of all the 10 member states to reflect Asean's diversity, compleity and realities in all fields.
by Channel NewsAsia
Former Singapore lawyer and ex-Workers' Party election candidate, Gopalan Nair, is facing another charge of insulting a High Court judge. On Thursday morning, the court heard that Nair, now a US citizen, had on 17 March 2006 insulted justice Lai Siu Chiu in an email while the judge was hearing an Originating Summons case.
by Straits Times
A breach in procedure allowed two detainees to make an escape bid from the lock-up at the Subordinate Courts on Wednesday, said police, which will carry out a probe to see if there was any negligence involving the officers.
by Alice Cheong In Wonderland
This exactly show how the moral of the society has deteriorated.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
When you go and ask MOF a question, say, "why is there such a tax by the government," or "why is there such a rule in place," what do you expect MOF to reply?
One blogger wanted MOF to, essentially, answer in the manner of "you are asking the wrong ministry. We just collect the money.", or "you are asking the wrong ministry. We just make sure we collect the money."
I hope nobody is listening to this blogger's advice: answer as narrowly as possible. In fact, I'm glad agencies in Singapore government, mostly, do not subscribe to this policy.
(I don't think anybody will be listening much to this blogger anyway, because, frankly, his debating skills is lacking. Especially since he cannot offer a single piece of counter-point except to just repeat himself louder. Especially since he keeps contradicting himself with statements like, for example, on one page that says "the taxation of petrol in Singapore was never designed as a measure to counter traffic congestion", and on another page that says "I do not deny petrol taxation is one of the various methods on top of ERP and higher road-tax charges etc. [to control traffic growth]".)
by Joel Tan, The Online Citizen
by Karman Tse, Today
It has all the makings of an indie mystery film worthy of inclusion in the festival that he has been synonymous with for so long.
Singapore International Film Festival (Siff) director Philip Cheah has stepped down as its frontman after 21 years — and one year after the resignation of Lesley Ho and Teo Swee Leng, who together with Cheah had been heading Siff from the start.
by Cheryl Soh, Today
by Ahmad Dhafeer, Channel NewsAsia
Foreign affairs minister George Yeo said Singapore can become a hub for the region's Arab community, even as it broadens its ties with Middle Eastern countries like Yemen.
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