Neo Pee Teck Lane. I remember it not so much as a lane than as an opening — I’d no idea what was down there. (Still don’t.) But I look out for it almost every time I go by in a bus or a car, that street sign pointing out…

The following is a version of a long post I made on Facebook, which I’m posting on my blog for posterity (also, the original post was attached to a link, so I’m putting these comments here to make it easier to share). This report by The Straits Times presents an…

Below is a version of the formal complaint that I sent to Parliament, the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, Chairman of the Select Committee Charles Chong, and Seah Kian Peng, who was the acting Chairman of the Select Committee during my session. It is not the exact same version…

The developments over the past few days related to the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, submissions from the PAP Policy Forum, and the branding of Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) report on freedom of expression in Singapore as a “deliberate falsehood” have been incredibly worrying. First off, the issue is…

The Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Bill had its first reading on 27 February 2018. It’s meant to replace the current Public Order (Preservation) Act, which lays out the powers that the authorities have during states “of danger to public order”. …

Not every publicised submission to the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods has been published on Medium. This post is a collation of links of published submissions found elsewhere on the web. The latest ones added are at the top. Calvin Cheng, former Nominated Member of Parliament If we are truly serious in our fight against fake…

The Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods is soliciting feedback from the public until 4:30pm on 28 February 2018. Details (taken from the Parliament of Singapore) website are below, followed by my personal submission.

2017 has felt like a long, long year. Looking back at the stories that I’ve written, I was surprised that some of the stories I thought I had written ages ago had in fact been published this year. I’m keeping up with this practice of listing my top 10 favourite…

It sounds like a dull story—a young, fairly junior HDB officer being charged with an offence after leaking information about a fairly unexciting HDB resale portal to a journalist. …