An archive of letters Francis wrote to the Straits Times.

* indicates those letters that were published.

Letters from 1999

• * 27/1/99 Good governance needs transparency
• 4/5/99 Erroneous bills from Power Supply

Letters from 1998

• * 4/7/98 Water policy
• * 10/6/98 PARF cash refund
• 24/2/98 Renaming the Ministry of Manpower
• * 20/1/98 Lift ban on satellite dishes

Letters from 1997

• 30/10/97 Request for information from the Central Narcotic Bureau
• * 17/10/97 What's the rationale for higher rents for interim housing?
• * 10/10/97 Being profitable, SBS should lower its bus fares
• 19/7/97 - 28/10/97 The complete record of exchange about new HDB $5000 deposit
• 27/8/97 Do not price medical responsibility
• 12/8/97 Re-thinking school ranking
• 3/6/97 Creativity debate offers chance to re-balance educational system
• * 24/4/97 Public Transport Council should have consulted the public
• * 13/4/97 Paranoia is destructive

Letters from 1995-1996

• * 1/11/96 Official wealth statistics don't make sense
• * 5/10/96 GRC: right to choose
• 17/8/96 A multiplicity of histories
• 1/8/96 Human worth is inherent
• * 27/7/96 Teaching history in Singapore
• 29/6/96 Any mind is a terrible thing to waste
• 18/6/96 Lack of civil society and political alienation
• 21/5/96 Voting responsibly and freak election results
• 24/3/96 Rule of politics chosen, not inherent
• 24/3/96 Wide latitude of laws
• 7/3/96 Political legitimacy and percentage of votes
• * 3/3/96 HDB to stop providing emergency and maintenance services
• 11/2/96 HDB upgrading criteria to include level of political support for PAP
• 10/1/96 Graciousness
• * 28/11/95 Forcing Law Society to support Government
• 21/10/95 Dogmatism in Singapore political thinking
• * 18/9/95 The cost of pragmatism
• * 13/8/95 Creative thinking is paradigm-challenging
• * 24/8/95 Single fathers and social hypocrisy
• * 14/5/95 Teacher appraisal
• * 19/3/95 Respect and deference
• * 4/2/95 Democracy and free press

Letters from 1993-1994

• 27/12/94 Selection bias in gifted education programme?
• *19/10/94 Caning drug addicts
• *28/11/94 Expanding the political arena
• 27/9/94 Koo Tsai Kee's idea of leadership
• 26/9/94 Straits Times' reportage of statistics
• *5/9/94 Susceptibility of youth to foreign influence
• *17/8/94 Police brutality - second letter
• 11/8/94 Police brutality - Somporn Chinphakdee case
• *3/8/94 The measure of success
• *20/6/94 Some-men-two-votes: a solution in search of a problem
• *19/5/94 Equal obligations, equal rights
• 7/5/94 Criminal legal aid
• *14/3/94 The vote is a right, not a privilege
• 11/3/94 A soulless pursuit of excellence
• 20/2/94 Sembawang shipyard sacking
• 17/2/94 Sembawang shipyard sacking
• 1/1/94 SFIS-additional conditions
• 3/10/93 Hatchet journalism by Han Fook Kwang and Asad Latif
• 6/9/93 Ranking primary schools
• 27/8/93 School ranking and Normal (Technical) stream
• 22/8/93 Constitution and political legitimacy
• *24/8/93 SFIS2-response to Govt
• *16/8/93 Small families improvement scheme