LKY's Family Expresses Thanks

23 April 2015

The Straits Times reported that the family of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew expressed its thanks to the public for their affection and support during its  recent bereavement through a full-page advertisement.

Since the major newspapers already carried the advertisement, what else that is newsworthy could The Straits Times write about?

Pandas Mating Uncensored

21 April 2015

The Straits Times showed pictures of Kai Kai and Jia Jia mating for the first time in Singapore.

Aren't the pictures rather explicit for a national broadsheet?

MediaCorp also reported the event on national television with a video clip. Its Channel News Asia news reader asked, possibly half in jest, whether it should have been given a PG rating.

Memorial For Founding Fathers

15 April 2015

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told Parliament on 13 April that a committee would gather views from the public and conceptualise a memorial for Singapore's "founding fathers", in response to calls from Members of Parliament to honour the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

Singapore's cabinet members in 1965, when the country was thrown out of Malaysia, are not the country's founding fathers. They did not found Singapore. Not even modern Singapore nor independent Singapore.

Furthermore, why did the Members of Parliament wait until after Mr Lee's passing before considering a memorial to honour the early cabinet members, all of whom except for Mr Lee had retired from the government a quarter of a century ago or longer?

LKY: Demolish My House

13 April 2015

The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew's instruction to demolish his house at 38 Oxley Road after his death is TODAY's headline news today.

More newsworthy than the public spat between Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak and former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad?

The Straits Times seems to think so too.

More newsworthy than Q1 GDP?

It's just a house.