Michael Palmer-Laura Ong and Ng Boon Gay-Cecillia Sue
Yet another scandal has erupted involving top public servants and the latest casualty this time is none other than Speaker of Parliament, Peoples' Action Party MP Michael Palmer, who supposedly got involved with a People's Association Constituency Directory, Laura Ong. The Ng Boon Gay and Cecillia Sue sex for favours corruption case had been hotly followed by many for its saucy revelations and interest was only dying down recently and out comes the Michael Palmer-Laura Ong case. Thinking slightly further back, we also had the Workers' Party Yaw Shin Leong case where the female in question was never directly identified. These people were the elite of our society but they were all brought down by sex scandals. However, the common thread amongst them thus far has been that they were basically having extramarital affairs. In the words of actor Jackie Chan, they had basically committed an offence that all men are prone to. While our society had been conservative, we had