THE PROBLEM PERSISTS, AND PERSISTS… It is almost as if the arrest of the NUS student, who allegedly installed two hidden cameras in the bathrooms of the College of Alice and Peter Tan (CAPT), was not enough to prove a point. Dual confessions on…
WAR AND FAMINE PERSISTS IN YEMEN
…As if the Horsemen Never Left The UN reported that 10 million Yemenis are vulnerable to famine, while 80% of the population of 29 million people require humanitarian aid. Likewise, some three million people have been thrown into disarray, hundreds have died from Cholera,…
UK QUITS, AS BREXIT BECOMES LEGIT
“Alas, poor Yorick!” Nothing lasts forever, except Brexit felt like so: the UK has had two general elections, three Prime Ministers, and multiple extensions since the June 2016 Referendum. But it has been done – the UK has officially stopped being a member nation…
GLOBAL EMERGENCY IN LIGHT OF THE WUHAN VIRUS
The latest Coronavirus epidemic trudges on… It is all over the news now – since the first recorded case in Wuhan on 31 December last year, with the first reported death on 11 January, there have since been 17 known deaths and 571 confirmed…
SDP UP AND READY FOR NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
Leadership Unchanged, for Now The Singapore Democratic Party’s (SDP) 19th Ordinary Party Conference held on 31 October saw the party’s main leadership, the Central Executive Committee (CEC), mostly unchanged: Dr. Chee Soon Juan remains Secretary-General, while Prof. Paul Tambyah retains his role as Chairman.…
#METOO: SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES ON MALES RISE
A once overlooked but now rising demographic In the light of month after month of sexual harassment, vouyeurism and assault cases in the news, it appears that sexual assault cases on male persons are on the rise. Even recently, there has been a case…
#TRYAGAIN: NEW CHALLENGES AGAINST SECTION 377A
Mr. Chan’s challenge On 14 October, former Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong published a 72-page report titled “Equal Justice Under The Constitution And Section 377A Of The Penal Code: The Roads Not Taken” on the online-based Singapore Academy of Law Journal. The report is…
ISRAEL CAN INTO MOON CRASH
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress On 11 April, the unmanned Israeli moon lander Beresheet (Hebrew for “in the Beginning”, as written in biblical texts) made an unsuccessful descent onto the lunar surface. This was attributed to a chain of technical issues, such as…
SATELLITE WARS: THE MODI STRIKES BACK?
“Power, Unlimited Power”? On Wednesday, 27 March, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi announced that the country had successfully tested ASAT (Anti-Satellite) missiles. The missile was fired from a testing facility in Odisha, Eastern India, led by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),…
A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING MARX – THE SPECTRE OF VANDALISM
Vandals Make Their Marx, Once Again On Saturday, 16th February 2019, Philosopher Karl Marx’s grave in London, Highgate Cemetery was found awash in red paint amidst colourful bouquets surrounding the grey marble plaque. From the pictures posted by Highgate Cemetery’s Twitter that day, one…