From ‘Vital to engage digital citizens’, 18 Oct 2011, article by Reico Wong, My Paper SOCIAL media and the Internet have become standard tools that Singaporeans use to share their political views and interpret what is going on around them, Members of Parliament (MPs) said in the House yesterday. As a result, it is vital [...]
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From ‘Only a handful turn up for planned protest in Singapore’, 16 Oct 2011, article by Amanda Tan, Sunday Times The bravado for a planned protest at Raffles Place on Saturday afternoon fizzled out after fewer than 20 people turned up over several hours at the spot where it was supposed to have taken place. [...]
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From ‘Chen Show Mao ‘uninvited’ from communal event”, 21 Aug 2011, article by Benson Ang in tnp.sg and Chen Show Mao’s Facebook page. CONTROVERSY has broken afresh online after Members of Parliament (MPs) from the opposition ward of Aljunied were “disinvited” to at least one ghost month dinner events. Workers’ Party (WP) MP for Aljunied [...]
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From ‘Man complains about Muslim prayers at McDonald’s outlet‘, 19 Aug 2011, article by Faris Mokhtar, sg yahoo news. A man has generated heated debate online after he posted comments questioning why McDonald’s allowed the Muslim prayers to be played at one of its restaurants. The debate first started after a man known as Alex [...]
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From ‘Netizens outraged after foreigner insults Singaporeans’, 12 Aug 2011, article in insing.com …Netizens are now outraged after a netizen posted disparaging comments about Singaporeans…”Rachelle Ann Beguia”, reportedly from the Philippines, wrote on MP Penny Low’s Facebook page: “These moronic ‘Singaporeans’, their code, their morals, their ‘loyalty’ and ‘patriotism’… all dropped at the first sign [...]
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From ‘MP checks phone during national anthem’, 10 Aug 2011, article in insing.com …Member of Parliament (MP) Penny Low was spotted being occupied with her phone during the singing of the national anthem at the National Day Parade (NDP) yesterday. …A netizen “UptheToon” said, “Shows even the MP don’t really care about Singapore or our [...]
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From ‘Netizens allege Tony Tan helped son escape NS’, 29 July 2011, article in insing.com. …In a post dated 27 July, netizen “Jessica Tan” wrote, “Elected President candidate Dr Tony Tan helped his son to escape military National Service. He had arranged for his son to do civilian work (research work at National Cancer Center) [...]
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From ‘Meeting the people 24/7…online’, 26 June 2011, article by Irene Tham and Fiona Low, Sunday Times (From comments on various ministers’ Facebook pages) (June 12 at 2.05pm) Lee Kok Keong: I think NParks is doing a great job. Unlike most other cities, we get to enjoy greenery around us. We probably take the trees [...]
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From ‘MP:People blame gov for all their problems’, 12 June 2011, article in insing.com translated from LWZB Tampines GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Baey Yam Keng was interviewed by Lianhe Wanbao about a post on his Facebook page last week: “79 MPS cases tonight. Had to spend a bit of time to explain to some [...]
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From ‘Singapore politicians friend Facebook’, 4 June 2011, article by Tan Weizhen, Today. One (Sim Ann) disclosed her pregnancy on Facebook while another (Tin Pei Ling) revealed on it that she had resigned from her day job; some also rebutted rumours via the social networking site, while many use it as a sounding board for [...]
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