The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tusday June 14th, 2022 – World Blood Donor Day
World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) is held on June 14 each year. The event was organised for the first time in 2005, by a joint initiative of the World Health Organization, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary, life-saving gifts of blood.
#Singapore as a quasi-one-party state by Murray Hunter
Singapore’s People’s Action Party (PAP) is one of the longest political parties holding power, winning every election since 1959. CNA, part of the state media, inferred that Singapore was a one party state with its headline “A ‘one-and-a-half party’ political system possible in Singapore, says political analyst”, after the 2020 election.
Singapore has the characteristics of a one-party state. Yet, paradoxically, even though Singapore has a functioning Westminster parliamentary system, which Freedom House criticises for being unfair, if 66,251 voters had changed their intentions, there would have been a hung parliament after the 2020 general election.
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Preface to sail #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“kiss me, gentle mist on fog’s grey skin.
spray your perfume, salty sweet,
that I may lose my bitter tinge.”
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Fika bonding! #35 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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