A man was jailed 10 weeks for assaulting a cabby on Sept 22, last year. Arne Corneliussen, 50, a programme management director of a courier company, had pleaded guilty to one count of voluntarily causing hurt to Mr Chan Chuan Heng,…
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Can someone tell Alfian Saat person to shut the fuck up? I am a gay Singaporean and whenever anyone in our local LGBT community speaks up, I will sit up and internalize. Most of the time, I would agree with…
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Millennials aren’t exactly celebrating his passing. In 2013, The Real Singapore posted an article written by Jeremy Sia, titled “More Young People are Looking Forward to LKY’s Death”. Sia quoted two people in his article, Edmund Tan, an undergraduate, and…
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Watching the reaction to Lee Kuan Yew’s death from overseas has been a surreal and difficult experience. As a Singaporean journalist with the BBC, it’s been a privilege to cover many stories about my country over the years. But here…
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Washington, D.C., is fast becoming an acronym for “Dysfunctional Capital.” Singapore, in contrast, has become the poster child for “the concept of good governance,” to quote the Financial Times’s obituary for the country’s longtime leader, Lee Kuan Yew, who was…
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