by Dr Roland Chia | May 20, 2019 | Pulse
May 2019 Pulse There has been much discussion in recent months in Singapore about deliberate falsehoods (especially the online variety) and hate or offensive speech. Hardly a day passes that The Straits Times does not carry an article or two about these menaces and...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 6, 2019 | Pulse
May 2019 Pulse In his recent ministerial statement on hate speech, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam stressed that society must not only condemn hate speech, it must also shun speech that is offensive. This is because if offensive speech is not checked, over...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 13, 2019 | Pulse
April 2019 Pulse On 19 March 2019, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam disclosed that there are plans to conduct a ‘proper debate’ in Parliament on issues such as race, religion and hate speech. This announcement came in the wake of the horrific shootings in...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 1, 2019 | Pulse
April 2019 Pulse On 15 March, terrorist attacks on two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, left 50 dead and dozens injured. The attacks were carried out by Australian-born Brenton Tarrant, 28, who was later arrested by police. Describing it as one of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 18, 2019 | Pulse
March 2019 Pulse We live in an age where we witness a truly unprecedented explosion of data – its collection, sharing and analytics. The phenomenon that came to be known as Big Data has impacted every sector of society – economics, politics, policing, security,...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 4, 2019 | Pulse
March 2019 Pulse Since the mid-nineties, doctors in America have been prescribing human growth hormones to healthy children whose projected adult height is in the bottom first percentile – five feet three inches for boys and four feet, eleven inches for girls – in...
