Hello people I know the bulk of us dont read newspaper frequently, but there are things in the news you have to know.
These are some things I surfed on the net so do check it out!
I'd tried to make all of them bite-sized, so READ please, it will be helpful.

1. Sedition Act
2. Terrorism(Recent escape of Singapore JI Leader, Mas Selamat Bin Kastari)

1.Sedition Act

Seditious tendency.
3. —(1) A seditious tendency is a tendency —
(a) to bring into hatred orcontempt or to excite disaffection against the Government;
b) to excite the citizens of Singapore or the residents in Singapore to attempt to procure in Singapore, the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter as by law established;
c) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in Singapore;
(d) to raise discontent or disaffection amongst the citizens of Singapore or the residents in Singapore;
e) to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races or classes of the population of Singapore.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), any act, speech, words, publication or other thing shall not be deemed to be seditious by reason only that it has a tendency —
(a) to show that the Government has been misled or mistaken in any of its measures;
(b) to point out errors or defects in the Government or the Constitution as by law established or in legislation or in the administration of justice with a view to the remedying of such errors or defects;
(c) to persuade the citizens of Singapore or the residents in Singapore to attempt to procure by lawful means the alteration of any matter in Singapore; or
(d) to point out, with a view to their removal, any matters producing or having a tendency to produce feelings of ill-will and enmity between different races or classes of the population of Singapore,
if such act, speech, words, publication or other thing has not otherwise in fact a seditious tendency.
(3) For the purpose of proving the commission of any offense under this Act, the intention of the person charged at the time he did or attempted to do or made any preparation to do or conspired with any person to do any act or uttered any seditious words or printed, published, sold, offered for sale, distributed, reproduced or imported any publication or did any other thing shall be deemed to be irrelevant if in fact such act had, or would, if done, have had, or such words, publication or thing had a seditious tendency.

• Sedition Act is in Chapter 290 of the Statutes of Singapore
• First used in September 2005 on three individuals. One of whom is a teenager.
• All three people are charged for making seditious and inflammatory racist comments on the Internet.

The first two people are Nicholas Lim Yew, 25, and Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27. Both posted racist comments in response to a letter in the STRAITS TIME.

Their sentences:
former-served one day in jail and a fine of $5,000
latter-sentenced to one month imprisonment

The third was Gan Huai Shi,a 17 year old blogger who made racist remarks about Malays on his blog.
***Be mindful that he is the youngest offender.
As such, the sentence meted out upon him was:

- undergo psychological evaluation and follow-up to address the death of his brother,
- attend counselling sessions to correct his misguided dislike of Malays,
- post a $10,000 bond to ensure good behaviour, and
- perform 180 hours of community service.

Please do know how to evaluate this. And take note that examples that you give in your essays are best to be within a decade.

2. Terrorism

Mas Selamat Kastari

(How he was captured was unknown. PS: My tutor said it was not through orthodox method. Go figure:D)

- Singapore Changi Airport

- bombing of Yishun MRT Station
-bombing of U.S. and Israeli Embassies,
-bombing of British and Australian High Commissions,
-bombing of commercial buildings housing US firms
-bombing of U.S. Navy warships along Singapore's coastlines

shockwaves.