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This article was published in The Straits Times on February 5, 2019.
By Viswa Sadasivan
Just too many things have been going wrong lately - the Singapore Armed Forces, Health Ministry and Singapore Post incidents.
We appear to be in denial that the problem - across the board - is systemic. Individual Committees of Inquiry (COIs) can only go so far. There's an urgent need for a whole-of-government response.
The first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it.
This op-ed was published in The Straits Times on April 14, 2018.
By Viswa Sadasivan
The word "truth" featured prominently in the recent Select Committee hearing on deliberate online falsehoods (DOF). I was uncomfortable that it was viewed as a binary imperative.
This came through especially in the session where committee member, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam, and historian Thum Ping Tjin debated whether Operation Coldstore was effected on legitimate, objective grounds or was politically motivated. Each asserted his truth as the truth. But those watching will need to come to their own conclusions.
