President Hollande has finally called the Paris attacks what they really are – an act of war. It is inane to characterise these and similar attacks as mere acts of terror or the acts of religious extremists. ISIS has grown into a state that both operates within a physical, geographical domain in the Middle East,…
In the last few days, the reality is finally setting in that Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is entering the final moments of his life. When the news began to filter to me on Wednesday that the media were gathering at the Singapore General Hospital, and there were sightings of next-of-kin arriving, I too thought that…
PM Lee has said that the next General Election will be ‘deadly serious’ as each constituency would be fought on national issues, not local issues. Each constituency will fight a National Election and not a By-Election. In my humble opinion, PM Lee is by and large correct. Singapore is so uniformly run that we cannot…
Every Singaporean should agree with the MCI Minister Yaacob Ibrahim that it was fortunate that the Communists lost the battle for Singapore in the early days of our state; as it turned out Communism proved to be a fatally flawed political system that eventually collapsed. Even China is now only nominally communist, having adopted capitalist…
Some of these points I have already put on my Facebook Page, but I think it is useful to re-post on my blog, and add some clarifications. Firstly, I have never said MDA regulates companies. That is the job of ACRA. Neither have I said that MDA is only interested in regulating companies. I have…
I refer to the op-ed by Mr. Howard Lee “MDA regulations – Still no clarity, just another questionable voice”. In this rebuttal to my article on the Free My Internet’s statement, Mr Lee raises several points which I will clarify below. Firstly, my comparison of the Breakfast Network and the Independent was never based on…
In the wake of the shutdown of the Breakfast Network, the Free My Internet movement issued a statement questioning the Media Development Authority’s ability to act as a Media Authority. This is not only an overreaction, it was a statement based on several logical fallacies. To begin with, the shutdown of the Breakfast Network has…
Any hope the Government still harboured of the electorate accepting the “6.9 million” Population White Paper may have just gone up in flames. One must not underestimate the shock to the Singaporean psyche in seeing images of burning police vehicles, crowds attacking ambulances and rioting masses; for Singaporeans born post-independence, these things just do not…
Despite my differences in opinion with several leading Singaporean bloggers and blog-site owners on the MDA licensing rules, I have always respected their views and tried to engage them. I have also endeavoured to try to assist them in bridging the gap in communication between them and the Government. One reason is that for the…
The drama that has unfolded over Singapore’s Media Development Authority’s decision to license some news websites in Singapore is tragic: On the one hand, we have a government completely bewildered over the reaction towards what they see as a minor update to its regulatory laws. On the other hand, we have freedom-of-the-internet advocates going apoplectic…
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