1. Hilarious Simpsons episode on China. Synopsis here.

2. I haven't been able to access Singapore-based Straits Times all day.
Turns out this was the reason!

A test with other major Singapore news portals shows Singapore's largest Chinese language daily,
Lianhe Zaobao and www.AsiaOne.com (operated by Singapore Press Holdings
which owns both ( Read more... )

More on the overseas voting issue.

Sheri Kristen Goh's suggestion that overseas voting should take place earlier does not make sense because that would mean overseas voters would have to make up their minds before campaigning ends.

The real question should be: Since there were just a few hundred overseas voters this election, why were they not ( Read more... )

http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/story/0,5562,392100,00.html?

PAP should stop dangling 'goodies' to win votes. Find out what makes the opposition tick instead

I agree with some PAP leaders' comments regarding the loyalty and passion of voters in the opposition wards and that even multi-million dollar upgrading plans cannot buy them over.

As I ( Read more... )

• IHT - Singapore beyond Lee
• CNA - 34,000 people sign petition against Took Leng How's death sentence
• Committee to Protect Journalists slams the PAP government for stifling critics
• IHT - Courts in Singapore come under scrutiny

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In the first of a series of postings on the 2006 elections, WP candidate Goh Meng Seng who stood against the PAP in Aljunied, talks about depressed journalists, how the blogosphere has pushed the traditional media to less biased coverage, and the selective coverage/omission by the media of points raised by the opposition during the hustings.

Read it ( Read more... )

http://www.straitstimes.com/forum/story/0,5562,392236,00.html?

May 11, 2006
MediaCorp explains election coverage

I REFER to Mr Joseph Yao Chong's letter, 'CNA coverage of results lopsided' (ST, May 9), and 'GE news in Mandarin on Indian TV channel' (ST, May 8) by Mr V. Varderajaloo.

First, we want to thank them both for watching MediaCorp's ( Read more... )

http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articleanfrel.html

International observers call for reform of Singapore's election system
7 May 06


ANFREL Study Mission to Singapore during the 2006 General Elections:
Initial Findings and Recommendations

The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) organized a study mission to Singapore on the occasion of the 2006 ( Read more... )

In this article, veteran journalist Seah Chiang Nee (of LittleSpeck.com fame) talks about the Singapore media's lopsided coverage of the general elections. Much of his article is devoted to the central role that the internet has played in this elections, and how citizen journalism has risen to fill in the gap, although he didn't quite use the term.

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_POL_SINGAPORE_POLITICIAN_ARRESTED_ASOL-?SITE=ASIAONE&SECTION=SPECIAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-05-07-07-49-18

May 7, 8:35 AM EDT

Singapore opposition politician arrested for allegedly threatening election officials

By EN-LAI YEOH
Associated Press Writer

SINGAPORE (AP) -- A Singapore opposition politician ( Read more... )

1. Singaporeans tend to vote for the incumbent, unless he/she screws up badly (Case in point: Ling How Doong)

2. The PAP's old methods of hijacking issues through the media, lawsuits and character assasination do not work anymore. It swings neutral and undecided voters against them.

3. When the two old Grandpas bring out their sledgehammers against ( Read more... )