Archives 2001

Abbreviations are explained in the column on the right of the screen.

Month	Title, etc		Relevance
Dec 2001	Protecting citizens - the role of the Police must include protecting our liberties		Law, Soc
Dec 2001	Tourism development: 10 urban villages - - my ideas for making Singapore a more interesting destination		Oth
Nov 2001	Family ownership and coming out - the more parents feel they own the family, the harder it may be to come out to them.		Hom
Nov 2001	The arrests at One Seven and Section 20 - 2 guys arrested for consensual homosex were not charged under Section 377A, but under Section 20.		Pol, Law, Med, Hom
Nov 2001	Audience participation is good for the economy -  we must get over the fear of sticking out and losing face should we fail		Soc
Aug 2001	The East is pink? - as China's cultural influence grows, its increasing gay visibility and acceptance will impact on us		Soc, Hom
Aug 2001	PM Goh's limp balloon - the Prime Minister says he will inflate the political balloon gradually		Pol
Aug 2001	Government tightens control over political websites - but its method is to compel self-censorship so that its own hands are clean		Pol, Med
Aug 2001	The fourth reason to travel is illegal - - history as taught in one school ill-prepares the boys for life		Soc, Kno
Aug 2001	Society as ecology - two men are caught (allegedly) having sex. Some think it shouldn't be a big deal		Soc, Hom
Aug 2001	Creativity and deference - the latter stymies the former, and Singaporeans have too much of the latter		Pol, Soc
Jul 2001	The day the phone rang - and we learnt how closely the government monitors gay websites.		Pol, Hom
Jul 2001	Control of the press: the 1% lever - how the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act gives the government control over newspapers.		Pol, Med
Jul 2001	The swimming show - are you tempted to see this show I describe here, even though you shouldn't support it?		Soc, Per
Jul 2001	Chinese names for Chinese Singaporeans - but why should it be so?		Soc
Jul 2001	Head of camel, rump of ape - what I think of the Sex Education Package put out by the Ministry of Education		Soc, Hom, Kno
Jul 2001	The crown prince's house -  some princeling bought the most expensive mansion in the UK, but it isn't the reason why I'm anti-monarchy		Pol
Jul 2001	Under the banyan tree - my response to Andy Ho's article in the Straits Times reviewing the state of civil society		Pol, Soc, Kno
Apr 2001	Outside the box is void - we want Singaporeans to be innovative and creative, but not outside the box, please.		Soc, Kno
Apr 2001	Culture as a factor in economic development - Yoshihara Kunio explores in his book Asia per capita why some East Asian countries are richer than others.		Soc, Oth
Apr 2001	A tale of two foreign workers - glimpses into a world very different from our comfortable lives.		Soc, Hum
Apr 2001	Meritocracy and we're kaput - a Malaysian leader says the future of Malaysian Malays would be jeopardised if they had to compete.		Pol
Apr 2001	Reporting the first gay wedding - with media liberalisation, which papers reported the Amsterdam event?		Pol, Med, Hom
Apr 2001	Black and other kinds of death - compared to many other ways of dying, AIDS is a very preventable disease.		Hum, Per, Oth
Mar 2001	I rode in a stolen limousine - it's a long drive from downtown Kuala Lumpur to the airport, but a short connection from petty larceny to grander things.		Soc
Mar 2001	40-year term halved for child molester - the Straits Times and New Paper reports on this appeal case are quite different.		Med
Mar 2001	When will the government climb out of its own race trap? - and scrap the race-based self-help organisations?		Pol
Feb 2001	St Valentine crying at the bus stop - what Carol and I saw on Valentine's Day dismayed us		Soc
Feb 2001	Beware the bias in your questions - a teenager emailed me a number of questions for her class project		Hom, Kno
Jan 2001	John wants equality, Peter shall pay - who bears the cost of treating everyone equally?		Soc
Jan 2001	Why we can't be purist about smoking and drinking - because the rest of the world isn't		Soc
Jan 2001	Beware the bus in disguise - words have associations in tow		Kno