Someone has lost his cool and took #umbrage at the question raised by a reporter during a press conference meeting. What was the question? https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/sph-restructure-media-business-not-profit-entity As reported by Todayonline (link above), the CEO of SPH was "asked how it would preserve its editorial independence with direct government funding as a possibility..." Ng said, "If I... Continue Reading →
General Election 2020 (Singapore) Results in one image
Singaporeans woke up to a new reality on July 2020. For the general election 2020, there are 31 electoral divisions comprising 14 single-member constituencies (SMC) and 17 group representation constituencies (GRC) with a total of 93 seats in parliament that would be contested by the incumbent PAP party and 10 other opposition parties: Workers' Party,... Continue Reading →
Wear mask to fight the spread of Coronavirus Pandemic
An elderly person being dragged away for flouting social distancing rules Wearing mask is mandatory now in Singapore whenever you are outside and wherever you are, except when you are at home or in the midst of eating in eatery or restaurant. Dine-in is now possible during Phase II of the Circuit Breaker measure as... Continue Reading →
Singapore General Election 2020
Still in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, but with cases (from active testing) including community cases declining, Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong announced on 23 Jun (TUE) that he has decided to call a generation election. Following the announcement, the PMO office said the country's President Halimah Yacob has dissolved parliament and that nomination... Continue Reading →
THE COVID19 PANDEMIC CRISIS
Events leading up to the discovery of the novel coronavirus were complicated. We heard stories from the media and fear grew in the hearts many around the world. Singapore responded to the spread of the virus when cases were found and propagated in the community in the early period of February 2020 by declaring the... Continue Reading →
POFMA – Tackling online falsehood (Singapore)
Singapore government has recently passed a bill to tackle online falsehoods on Wednesday May 8, 2019. What this bill does is to give the government power to take legal action against "deliberate online falsehoods" or fake news - when there is dissemination of a false statement of fact, and when such action is deemed in... Continue Reading →
Image of M87, the Black Hole
The image of the Black Hole (first ever) still fascinates me. It is billions times larger than our sun and solar system. Why is there a gaping hole in the universe? Was it caused by a collapsing star? For its brilliant light to reach earth so we could see it, it has to take millions... Continue Reading →
First image of a Black Hole
My tribute to the team that made the first image of a Black Hole possible to mankind. For more information on how this image was acquired: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47873592 This is the image that is made known to the public. "It measures 40 billion km across - three million times the size of the Earth - and... Continue Reading →
Singapore Political Cartoon: Singapore fights fake news with new legislation
From South China Morning Post: Singapore introduces anti-fake news law to counter falsehoods aimed at ‘exploiting’ the city’s ‘fault lines’ - The proposed law steps up existing powers the government has to compel news outlets to display corrections or disclaimers about falsehoods in published content. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3004196/singapore-introduces-anti-fake-news-law-counter-falsehoods-aimed According to SCMP, Russian President Vladimir Putin last month... Continue Reading →
Feliz 2019! Happy New Year!
Today is the last day of 2018. Have you written your "will", oops sorry I meant to say new year's resolutions, yet? (Don't bother - just make it up along the way). If you are interested to know what happened this past year, follow this link: https://www.express.co.uk/…/2018-in-pictures-roundup-what-h… Well, there was good that happened: France won world... Continue Reading →