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We received a tip off from a COOS member that there will be a special prayer session for Dr Alan Chin, the husband of new AWARE President Josie Lau in the evening service of the Church of Our Savior on 25 April 2009. We sent 4 field reporters to attend the service to record the event. Three...

I refer to the letter written by Tan Shao Ken entitled “IR jobs: Are Singaporeans being given priority?” (read letter here) Mr Tan wrote that Singaporeans must have priority and right of refusal and the Government and the IRs must work to ensure that Singaporeans who are qualified and want a...

Since the mass food poisoning outbreak at the Geylang Serai temporary market, media attention has been focused almost exclusively on the Indian rojak stall and its owner who will be prosecuted by NEA soon. Little was mentioned about the management committee of the market which oversees its...

Even before the investigations to the David Widjaja tragedy are completed, both NTU and the state media have already reached an unanimous verdict: that David attacked his professor and slashed his own wrists before plunging to his death. In a desperate attempt to preserve NTU’s battered...

AWARE has a brand new leadership. They were voted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the charter governing associations. The matter should be cut and dried, right? Apparently, not – far from it, it seems. As many of the ex AWARE committee members are calling for a special...

View over 20 exclusive photos here: http://wayangparty.com/?p=7162 Prologue: During his ministerial community visit to the Paya Lebar Division of the Aljunied GRC, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed that MOH is further relaxing the use of Medisave, this time to allow Singaporeans to...

Mr Tan Boon Huat Chief Executive Director People’s Association RE: Salaries and bonuses of CDC staff Dear Mr Tan, I am Eugene Yeo, Chief Editor of socio-political blog Wayang Party. As you may already know, there were rumors circulating in cyberspace about CDC staff receiving seven...

Dear readers, We have set up a new section “Voices from the ground” located on the right sidebar beneath the poll section specially for you. Yes, we want to hear you voice! No matter who you are, where you live and what you do, your opinion matters. Share with us your thoughts and...

Background: Last week, we publish an open letter to Dr Teo Ho Pin seeking clarifications on the bonuses received by staff of CDC last year. He did not reply to our email. However, one of our readers, Paul, managed to get a short reply from him after a second attempt. We attached below the...

Stalls selling economic rice at Toa Payoh Lorong 7 had seen an increase in business lately by slashing the price to $2.20 for 2 meat and 2 vegetables. Their customers are mostly from the lower-income group. One stallholder said: “I feel very sad. Recently there was aa regular customer who...

Tell me could Temasek and GIC have done a better job in outperforming the markets? Was it such a good strategy to put so many of our chips on banks? Was the melt down foreseeable? Is it true to say, paper losses are just paper losses? What about profits then; could they just be paper profits as...

On 4 March 2009, Reuters published an interview with MM Lee, excerpts of which was reproduced by Straits Times on the same day: Reuters Straits Times Straits Times left out some critical information as highlighted in the boxes: Straits Times mentioned that the portfolio of...

I remembered that our supposedly two-hour-long lecture ended early today - shortly an hour after it started. Mingyun, Marianne, Cho Yee and I had McDonalds and Subway for breakfast at around 9.45am. We chatted a little and headed for the library at around 10.30am, the time the incident occured...

Dr Teo Ho Pin Mayor Northwest CDC Dear Dr Teo, I am Eugene Yeo, Chief Editor of socio-political blog Wayang Party Club. I am writing to you express my concern over rumors circulating in cyberspace lately about Northwest CDC staff getting 8 months bonus including AWS in 2008...

Watch the video interview here: http://wayangparty.com/?p=5823