Alfian Saat

On Saturday (28th Aug), Worker's Party member Associate Prof Daniel Goh updated his Facebook with a post commenting on the response made by one Wee Yang Soh, an alumni in the anthropology department of Yale-NUS College (YNC), who says that…

Singapore’s Malay poet Alfian Sa’at recently came out to defend Zainal Abidin Shaiful Bahari, the man behind the racist Twitter account “sharonliew86”. The account masqueraded as a Chinese lady and shared racist tweets targeted at…

Over the years, Alfian Saat has made a name for himself by criticizing his own country Singapore. In 1998, Alfian wrote a poem titled “Singapore You Are Not My Country”  which mentioned: Singapore, I assert you are not a country at all, Do…

The course was not his priority as he was also busy watching rehearsals for his play.

He was unhappy that the college had taken advantage of his silence and "gentlemanliness" by pushing all the blame to him.

He was told to provide more details on the course given its concerns but chose to leave them ambiguous.

Alfian was a beneficiary of the Singapore system Alfian was a student of top schools in Singapore. He studied at Raffles Institution and later Raffles Junior College. He was also a fourth year medical student at the National University of…

And honestly I'm quite tired of all the ink spilled on trying to define Mdm Halimah's race. Because the slipperiness and porosity and contradictions of 'race' are not specific to Malays or Indians. To be exempt from having your racial…

But all this is to say that rule by walkover has long been a cherished PAP tradition. And that while we might see vigorous political contest as restoration of power to the people and a correction towards democratic norms, the PAP sees it as…