Mothership wrote an article on SMS Koh Poh Koon’s reply in Parliament yesterday (4 Jan) on the misdiagnosis of the 200 breast cancer patients in KPKH. In their headline of the article, it gave the impression that SMS Koh was saying misdiagnosis is not necessarily a bad thing. However, this was not what SMS Koh…
Wrong for Police to use data from TraceTogether for criminal investigations?
TraceTogether token or app is primarily for contact tracing. In Parliament on Jan 4, Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs, confirmed that the Singapore Police Force could obtain the data from TraceTogether for criminal investigations. Many Singaporeans are quite concerned and upset over this due to privacy issues. However, what is there do…
Singapore’s Covid Success Isn’t Easily Replicated
Bloomberg’s article has finally praised Singapore’s successful fight against Covid-19 on how other countries cannot easily replicate its model. A high degree of state influence and compliance is needed, which many countries cannot replicate. The degree of trust between the people and the good government clearly shows. Furthermore, Singapore didn’t discover big government for such…
Workers’ Party Chen Jiaxi don’t know about Parliament procedures or trying to play victim?
Is Chen Jiaxi trying to play victim of bully by insinuating PAP refused to take WP’s Leon Perera question in Parliament even though it is similar to what Tan Pei Ling filed?
PM Lee’s New Year Day Message 2021
2020 has been an exceptionally testing year for Singapore. At the beginning of the year, all of us had big plans to travel, grow our businesses, spend time with loved ones, get married and start a family, or graduate and take our first jobs. But soon we faced an unprecedented crisis. COVID-19 has been a…
Will Singapore’s hawker culture be listed on the UNESCO list?
Global panel recommends Singapore’s hawker culture to be added to UNESCO list. An evaluation body comprising 12 experts around the world – appointed by the 24-member intergovernmental committee will give the final verdict in December this year. Hopes are high for our hawker culture to be listed! ————————————————————————————————————————————————————– https://www.straitstimes.com/…/global-panel-recommends…
Singapore is no longer the most expensive city in the world!
OMG Singapore slipped from the top to the 4th in the world ranking! ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Paris and Zurich have joined Hong Kong as this year’s costliest cities worldwide, while Singapore and Osaka have slipped from their joint-top spot after the coronavirus pandemic weakened the US dollar, a survey published on Wednesday (Nov 18) showed. https://www.straitstimes.com/…/singapore-slips-from…
Anti-foreigner sentiments because of Tech.Pass
So much anti-foreigner resentments on the new Tech,Pass for foreign tech experts by unqualified Singaporeans who will never be able to helm those tech positions. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– https://www.channelnewsasia.com/…/new-tech-pass…