Legal Battle With NUS

CIVICUS Monitor has recognised my struggle for justice and accountability in its 2024 country report on Singapore .  Not only does my whistleblowing and the state-backed campaign of retaliation against me highlight academic misconduct, systemic institutional cover-ups, and the abuse of power by establishment elites under Lawrence Wong ' s PAP regime, it also underscores the importance of protecting whistleblowers and fostering a culture of transparency and accountability within public institutions. The concept of a “ restrict[ive] civic space ” often evokes images of dissidents or critics being actively persecuted by authoritarian regimes. However, the definition of “a dissident” should extend beyond those who are the targets of overt acts of repression. The “ state policy of silencing dissent ” can also manifest in more subtle ways. What happens when state agents commit wrongdoing, and the state refuses to admit it, much less to take responsibility, while simultaneously suppresses...

1 December 2023 What do I mean when I say that Lee Hsien Loong’s PAP regime is “rotting” ? I have been asked what I meant by the word “rot” when I wrote that Lee Hsien Loong’s PAP regime is “rotting.” Lee Hsien Loong’s PAP regime is “rotting” in the sense in which Heng Swee Keat used the words “rotting” and “rot” during a  speech in Parliament on 13 February 2015 , when Heng Swee Keat said that “ the Town Council is rotting. And the rot is serious. … the Workers’ Party has betrayed the people’s trust. The pattern of behaviour; the consistent pattern of denial, deflection and protection of the Managing Agent which suggests a serious rot is happening. ”   Today, Lee Hsien Loong’s PAP regime is clearly “ rotting ” and “ the rot is serious ” and the PAP regime “ has betrayed the people’s trust ” with a “ pattern of behaviour ” that includes a “ consistent pattern of denial, deflection and protection ” by Lee Hsien Loong’s PAP regime and Lee Hsien Loong’s Attorney-General, in...

13 October 2023 In the aftermath of the news that the NTU faculty member who plagiarised his former student’s work had either been terminated or had resigned , I received some questions about Dr Wong Yunn Chii. There is confusion that these two plagiarists are the same person. The two men are different plagiarists. There is also confusion that Lily Kong committed plagiarism against me; which is also inaccurate. Lily Kong is the perjurer who protected Wong Yunn Chii the plagiarist and this happened in NUS. Lily Kong covered up Wong Yunn Chii’s misconduct after I whistle blew on the plagiarism committed by Wong Yunn Chii. Lily Kong then demanded that the whistleblower (I) agree to stop complaining about the coverup of Wong Yunn Chii’s misconduct, as a condition for NUS to award me my master’s degree. Lily Kong then went to Court to dishonestly testify in Court that she did not link the whistleblowing on Wong Yunn Chii to NUS’s decisions to refuse to award the master’s degree to me an...

16 November 2022 Dear friends, I am a Singaporean whistleblower who has refused to be silenced about misconduct and abuse of power at the National University of Singapore (“NUS”). I refused to be silenced, even after NUS threatened to retaliate against me. NUS then managed to win a case against me in the High Court of Singapore, in which NUS’s main witness against me repeatedly lied to the Court and thereby committed the crime of perjury. NUS’s court victory against me, in a judgment that is tainted with perjury, has provided NUS with the legal basis to bankrupt me. Now, NUS is in the process of retaliating against me by bankrupting me, which will force my employer to fire me, and which will make me legally ineligible to continue working in my current profession. All of this is because I dared to refuse to be silenced and stop whistleblowing about misconduct and abuse of power at NUS. This is a major national scandal, in which the current President of Singapore Management Universit...