Category: Laws of our land

  • I’m not the one appealing to your conscience

    When the trap springs the prisoner dangles at the end of the rope. There are times when the neck has not been broken and the prisoner strangles to death. His eyes pop almost out of his head, no rx his tongue swells and protrudes from his mouth, seek his neck may be broken, and the…

  • ‘I like Singapore. It’s very beautiful. We see it from the boat’

    As she was ladling the rest of the stock into my bowl of Pho, Mrs Nguyen said, ‘I like Singapore. It’s very beautiful. We see it from the boat’. I was at my first dinner over at Julie’s parents’ in the south-western suburb of Lakemba, where from then on, I was always guaranteed a bowl…

  • 2,460 new cases the reason to ban outdoor parties?

    You read it here first. Because you won’t find it on Channelnews Asia because it’s not important. You won’t find it on ST interactive because you’re not subscribed to it. There were 2,460 new cases of dengue fever and 61 new cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever between January 1 and March 12 this year, so…

  • Eh? Like that not contempt of court meh?

    There’s a very sad story unfolding in Sydney about a Singaporean couple who allegedly poisoned their children. For matters like these, a court order withholds the names, and for good reason. From the SMH: Police prosecutor Sergeant Keren Bayley told the court the couple, who were listed in court documents as being aged 35 and…

  • Laws of our land Part II: Stateless in Singapore

    I like telling my friends about how I wasn’t a Singapore citizen until I was ten. Because they’d ask me, ‘Oh really, so where were you born?’ And I’d say ‘Singapore’. And they’d ask, ‘but how come you weren’t a citizen? What nationality were you then?’ No nationality! Stateless!, I’d say, real proud of my…