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SGs stuck with huge private housing loans cause they can’t buy HDB

I support National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan’s suggestion (“Radical idea: Remove income ceiling”; last Saturday).The income ceiling for buyers of new HDB flats is just a number; it means...

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SINGAPORE’S IDENTITY CRISIS: PART 2

This is a continuation of Part 1 of this article. {read Part 1 here}What is Needed in Singapore is Accessible Information and Open DiscourseThe current problem facing Singapore now isn’t that the...

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Tharman Shanmugaratnam: Keep foreign workers' population at one-third

 Ask DPM TharmanFOREIGN WORKERS: Keep it at one-thirdDPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam answers the most popular question voted by readers: How much more of a tightening will take place in terms of the foreign...

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A Young PAP member's take on Ministerial Pay

Bill Gates+George Soros+Mother Theresa - How Much $$By Elaina Olivia ChongMoney is the proverbial carrot. No matter how many people put themselves on the moral high ground, Money still talks for most...

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Storeman jailed 3 months for hitting foreign student's head with beer bottle

 Three Myanmar students were having supper at a coffeeshop in Jalan Membina off Tiong Bahru Road at 3am on Nov 22 last year, when storeman Kok Seng Kee came up behind one of them and bashed his head...

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Singapore police arrested 34-year-old man for making a false bomb threat

Singapore Police on Thursday had just arrested a 34-year-old man for making a false bomb threat on AsiaOne (SPH) news website.Responding to queries from The Straits Times, the police said on Friday...

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PAP: We will remain dominant without being dominating

 The People's Action Party (PAP) wants to remain a dominant party anchored in society - without dominating in all areas, said Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.It can do this as an open...

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Pressure mounting for Singapore to Remodel Retirement Policies

Singaporean Richard Mui joined the ranks of the world’s longest-living retirees when his career ended in 2010. Three years on, the 54-year-old can no longer afford to pay his father’s medical bills,...

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The worst place to educate your children is in Singapore Island schools

The worst place to educate your children is in Singapore Island schools. It can only produce dumb feeble minded followers, not independent thinking robust men and women with ideas. The problem lies in...

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White Paper not just about housing and living conditions

The increase of population in Singapore, would essentially take Singapore into a new challenge in Overpopulation.PAP would probably failed as a Party in our future history book.Singapore might not...

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Even if foreigners leave tomorrow, unemployed PMETs in their 30s will...

 [This article was sent to the May 1st Organizer and CC-ed to TheRealSingapore.com] I refer to your Hong Lim Park Protest on 1 May.  I also heard news about how some foreigners were asked to resign...

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SAF Lieutenant Colonel Thomas deny having sex with underage

SINGAPORE - A Lieutenant-Colonel in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has become the third man to go on trial for allegedly having sex with the same underage prostitute.Emlyn Thomas Thariyan, 37, is not...

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8 awful facts you must know about Singapore homes, transport

Population density rose 20% in just a decade.According to the Singapore Social Health Project 2013, due to the rise in population density, housing and transport sectors are increasingly stretched....

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Minister Musings – HDB the Trend Setter?

In our previous article, we spoke about how Minister Khaw Boon Wan put forth two ideas that the Housing Development Board (HDB) was considering. We then elaborated our thoughts on the first idea, which...

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Gamers can now pay for a pretty girl to play with them

A new service is gaining popularity among Chinese gamers, where for a small fee of 15 yuan ($3) an hour, gamers get to play their favourite online game with a beautiful woman.According to RocketNews24,...

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Tourists looking for work as maids in Singapore to be denied permits

*illustrated photo of a maid washing clothesForeigners found to have arrived in Singapore as tourists to look for work as domestic workers will have their work-permit applications rejected, the...

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Is NParks being xenophobic?

With close to 40 percent or more foreigners in Singapore, the calls for a police permit from NParks is quite disturbing as I thought we wanted foreigners to feel welcome in Singapore, so we gave them...

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Singapore, Lagarde Stealing from the Poor to give to the Rich

With reference to my legal action to block our government’s loan commitment to the IMF you may have heard me say that I am not necessarily opposed to giving the IMF more resources.  I must now admit...

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Get Singaporean girls to serve NS too!

Above Pic: Israeli Defense Force army girls taking a shower while posing for a photoThere has been a long heartfelt debate on whether females should serve NS alongside the males. This raises the issue...

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AGC warns former SMRT drivers against making more unfounded allegations

The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) on Saturday warned that they will come down hard on the two former SMRT drivers from China if they continue to make unfounded allegations.The drivers, Chinese...

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