Assisting China’s political agendas? A now-deleted controversial tweet by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey offering support for Hong Kong’s anti-government protests saw hostile backlash from China. Various Chinese companies, such as the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), Li-Ning, Tencent and the Shanghai Pudong Development…
MON: SINGAPORE TAKES ON VICE SYNDICATES In a bid to protect women from trafficking and exploitation, amendments to the Women’s Charter have been proposed to give police greater jurisdiction over online vice-related offences. (Picture Credits: TODAY Online) Read more about the proposed amendments to…
The rise of deepfakes Deepfakes are doctored videos that are created by sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) capable of “deep-learning”. Deep-learning is a subset of machine-learning, where algorithms modeled after the human brain learn from large amounts of data. Deepfakes are created by AI analysing…
Ban Is Not Necessary (For Now) Senior Minister of State for Transport Dr Janil Puthucheary recently warned that while a ban on the use of Personal Mobility Devices (PMDs) may not be immediately necessary, a ban may very well be enacted if the behaviour…
What happened? Minister for Law and Home Affairs, K Shanmugam paid a visit on the 2nd of October to The T Project Shelter, a safe haven for homeless transgender individuals in Singapore. The shelter was started in 2014 and is the first and only…
2019 PSLE Mathematics Paper 2 Saga Every child in Singapore must take the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE) and this set of exams is often believed to have the power of determining one’s future in life. During this stressful period for 12-year-olds, parents are…
What happened? In June, a London-based organization called the China Tribunal claimed that the Chinese government has been harvesting human organs from minority groups, including Uighur Muslims and members of the Falun Gong religious group. The organization declares itself to be “an independent tribunal”…
What happened in Hong Kong on China’s 70th National Day? Eighteen-year-old protester, Tsang Chi-kin, was shot to the ground by the riot police on 1 October 2019. This marks the first use of lethal force against a protester in the 17 weeks since the…
What is UkraineGate? A new scandal involving US President Donald Trump has emerged, with allegations that Trump pressured the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky over a phone call to open a corruption investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading contender for the…
The offence and the verdict (Trigger warning: Molestation) NUS student Terence Siow was on the train when he noticed a woman with “very long legs” sitting down. Siow sat beside her and touched her thigh. Despite the woman shifting away, he touched her thigh…
