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I suppose the media’s immediate questions for PM-designate Lawrence Wong will be : Are you re-shuffling your Cabinet? When? Whether yes or not yet,...
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Bertha Harian
News Reports
When I saw the title of the book of essays on the Nominated MP scheme, Are unelected voices still necessary in Parliament?, I did...
News Reports
I have been waiting to read news reports about responses to the upcoming Forward Sg exercise. Since its launch last month, I can recall...
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The silence in Catholic circles is to be expected. No Catholic wants to recall the sex scandal which led to the the conviction earlier...
Reading
One of the first things that struck me about The Last Fools was how thin the book was. The book on the eight pioneering...
Chin Chai Lah
On New Year’s Eve, young people broke all social distancing rules partying at Clarke Quay. Should they punished or dismissed as indulging in hi...
Chin Chai Lah
The United States invited more than half the countries around the world for President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy, but in a glaring omission,...
Chin Chai Lah
Chin: We should reduce the number acronyms ASAP! Chai: Why? I am sure WFH and HBL are now in the Singapore vocabulary. One is...
Chin Chai Lah
Chin: You think we should say something about the Yale thing? Chai: No need lah. Already booked slot for ministerial statement in Parliament. It’s...
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The headline is the most important part of any news report. Readers decide if the rest of the report is worth reading based on...
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I have said many times that the media should door-stop President Tharman Shanmugaratnam to ask him about the impending changes to the Constitution making...
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Now we know. We have a timeline at least. So Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is handing over the reins to Deputy Prime Minister...
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It’s a sign of how starved of political excitement we are that an announcement of a likely slate of People’s Action Party candidates for...
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In the early 1800s, an English journalist named William Cobbett wrote a presumably fictional story about how, as a boy, he had used red...
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What a curveball People’s Action Party MP Christopher de Souza threw in Parliament yesterday! In his speech on Budget 2022, he told his 4G...
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“Tonight is the night of all nights’’, said the BBC’s Ukraine correspondent this afternoon, reporting from an underground carpark in Kyiv, the country’s capital....
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Our soon-to-be Prime Minister doesn’t have many chess pieces on his board. In fact, there are a few missing pieces in the back row...
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In my past life, when reporters tell me they got the story from a source, I always ask if it’s chilli, tomato or soya...
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If a woman isn’t married, is she a Ms, Miss or Madam? Frankly, it really depends on the ‘house style’ of the particular media....
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It’s SOP in journalism to name everyone who is featured in an article. Reason is to show readers that this isn’t just some fake...
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What’s it like being on the other (dark) side? That’s what some curious people, especially ex-journalists, have asked me about my short sojourn in...
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When Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam tells the media that his great win was “not about me’’, I disagree. This is an election in which the person...
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Well! That was a pretty short campaign! It’s the usual nine days because the G doesn’t think we should be spending too much time...
