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Members of publichouse.sg were having a nice cold one at The Good Beer Company one night and got into talking about the by-election with Daniel Goh, proprietor of Good Beer.

By Raymond Lau

It’s by-election time again! You know the drill – the political parties jostle for a seat in Parliament, and we hunt for a seat in the kopitiam for a beer party.

Yes, you can have good beer in a kopitiam, as Daniel Goh will insist. As founder of The Good Beer Company, Daniel believes in pairing good hawker food with good beer.

We asked the beer connoisseur for his thoughts about all the candidates who have expressed interest in Punggol East SMC, whether contesting or not, and he answered in the way he knows best – with beer.

By Raymond Lau

The recent debate over a proposed Internet code of conduct has met with a general wave of disapproval from the blogosphere, and rightly so.

The whole issue smelled like a last-resort attempt by the government to bring some sort of predictability and order to the Internet, especially when past attempts to regulate cyberspace have not met with too much success.

Our government likes control. That’s not inherently bad, as a strong guiding hand may lead to very positive outcomes. In its view, our country is extremely vulnerable, and any sort of upheaval will have drastic consequences.

Consumers signing up for fibre broadband services in Singapore got one more alternative to the big three of SingTel, StarHub and M1 earlier this week, with the entry of MyRepublic, an upstart that promises to sell services based on what users do online, instead of  simply promising top speeds.

A S$69-a-month package, for example, will target gamers and offer a “low latency experience” for those who connect frequently to, say, the World of Warcraft servers worldwide to get their role-playing game fix.

The new service provider also offers online tutorials and exam preparation tools for Primary 1 to 6 as part of its S$89“Tutor” fibre broadband package, to attract parents who want their kids to go beyond the standard curriculum in school.

In a panel discussion last week, the Workers’ Party Youth Wing (WPYW) floated the idea of a youth parliament in Singapore, where young people with a stake in the future of their country come together to form an assembly of sorts and debate the issues of the day.

The panel members were David Chua Zhi Hon, 25; Executive Committee Member, Liane Ng Lijuan, 24; and Organising Secretary Sandeep Singh, 23. The forum was moderated by 26-year-old Secretary, Bernard Chen.