Singapore Tamil, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a 66-year-old former senior minister has been voted in as the ninth president of Singapore earning a landslide victory with 70.4 per cent of the votes. Once Singapore’s finance minister and deputy prime minister, the former economist has also held top positions at global institutions such as the United Nations and […]
READ MOREIn an recent online poll commissioned by Yahoo Singapore, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a clear favourite to succeed Lee Hsien Loong as Singapore’s next Prime Minister. 69 per cent of the 897 Singaporeans who participated in the survey said they would support Tharman, a member of Singapore’s Ceylonese community (another name for the […]
READ MOREAfter the roaring success of Palme d’Or-winning Dheepan, there appears to be an increasing interest in the cinematic telling of Tamil stories. Stories, however, that are not told by the mainstream South Indian film industry, but stories that are real and gripping. Stories told by the real, everyday Tamilians. Stories that are a true representation […]
READ MOREWilson Raj Perumal has been labelled the world’s most prolific match-fixer in football’s recent history. An Indian Tamil born in a village in rural Singapore in the mid-60’s, Wilson gradually climbed the heights of international match-fixing all the way to the World Cup, becoming FIFA’s most wanted man.
READ MORECheck out the latest music video from Shabir, one of Singapore’s biggest Tamil popstars!
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