The legendary Singapore opposition icon, Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, better known as JBJ (photo credit: Wikipedia), passed away early this morning of heart failure.
After having left the Workers Party, he had just formed the Reform Party to mount a new challenge to PAP dominance. He was the interim secretary general of the party.
He was Singapore’s Mr [...]
I have just been informed by the Bukit Bendera MP’s office that they, along with several Penang-based civil society activists, are planning a drive to the Kamunting Detention Centre in Taiping on the second day of Raya to convey their greetings to the ISA detainees:
Flowers, cards and gifts, if any, will be passed on to Raja [...]
For those enamoured by free markets and deregulation, the US experience makes for sobering reflection - although some argue that the Military-Industrial-Media Complex is hardly a model of free market economics.
For some time now, market fundamentalists had preached that the government should have as little do as as possible in regulating business. Now, we see [...]
Trams glide along the narrow streets of Amsterdam (Photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Leidsestraat_Amsterdam.JPG)
Blog reader Josh, a Penangite in the Netherlands, is impressed with the trams over there:
I fully support the re-introduction of trams in Penang. I am a Penangite now living in The Hague, The Netherlands. Trams are the main public transportation here in The Netherlands, be [...]
Marina was able to visit RPK on his birthday in Kamunting on Saturday, 27 September. Interesting that part of RPK’s rehabilitation (or is it punishment?!) involves reading the NST!
Here is another touching account of their encounter:
Happy 58th Birthday, Love
Yesterday, 27 September 2008 was Pet’s Birthday. My two daughters’ and I were allowed the [...]
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