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Singapore’s high social inequality is a result of elitist policies
Our Prime Minister had said:“In fact, if I can get another 10 billionaires to move to Singapore and set up their base here, my Gini coefficient will get worse but I think Singaporeans will be better...
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Political Science Graduate's perspective on Foreign Lecturers
Dear The Real Singapore,Something I'd like to share with the readers about the recent "NUS hiring 28% Singaporeans only for Pol Sci faculty". I graduated from NUS FASS 2 years back and i majored in...
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ST Writer: We should not follow Western Values such as Absolute Freedom of...
IN A speech at a ceremony in which he received London's Freedom of the City award ("A tale of two cities"; last Friday), Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong aptly noted that Singapore has to find the right...
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Private property resale prices continue to head south
After a tumultuous year that saw the most severe set of property cooling measures and lending curbs implemented by the government, private homes prices may fall further. According to the flash...
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Do not underestimate the stupidity of Sinkies
The founding generations who turned a fishing village and a swamp into a thriving modern city state were mostly uneducated or undereducated peasants and coolies. There were barely a handful of...
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Annualised return of 8.4% using CPF*
(*Terms and conditions apply)Only problem is that most of it is via capital appreciation i.e. must sell to get the income.Straits Times Index EFTs getting an annualised 8.4% over the past 10...
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Affordability Questioned
When the mainstream media puts out a full page article with the heading "Building affordable homes for S'poreans" you know that even the spin masters are tired of spouting out the same old lies. Hiding...
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Singaporeans don’t want babies or foreign workers either
In Singapore, the place where most people go to make the biggest decision in their lives — other than, arguably, their choice of a spouse — is the headquarters of the Housing Development Board. It’s a...
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Singapore students top the world in PISA
In a test conducted by Programme for International Students Assessment in 2012, Singapore students, and I repeat, Singapore students, beat the rest of the world to come up tops, not only in rote...
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Abolish GST to reduce the cost of living
The government collects $10 billion in GST each year and has a surplus of $30 billion in the budget, according to IMF accounting conventions.They can remove the GST totally and still have a fairly...
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Of Insidious Constructs & Ideological Cleavage
Unlike Prof Tommy Koh, as a layman I do not view our beloved country thro’ the eyes of ideology. Ideologies, being ideas, beliefs or visions are abstract. I concern myself with mostly the...
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Capturing the voices of the subaltern: the TRS dilemma
OK we seem to have gotten into this debate about editorial control when it comes to the articles that TRS publishes and I have received a lot of quite nasty comments for suggesting an greater exercise...
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Limpeh's Idealistic Goal for TRS is just Unrealistic and Naive
I refer to the article by blogger Limpeh FT: "CAPTURING THE VOICES OF THE SUBALTERN: THE TRS DILEMMA".Without referring to any website in particular, consider that anyone exercising the level of...
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Use of CPF funds for public housing similar to paying rent to government
Dear The Real Singapore, I hope that more Singaporeans will be enlightened after reading “The dirty CPF-HDB scheme to trick Singaporeans”. The CPF scheme is an epic failure and re-designed to create...
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Former Teacher: Why CCA hours are long and cannot be resolved
Dear The Real Singapore, There is something I would like to share to your readers about my experience when I was still working in MOE years ago, both in schools and in the headquarters. I wanted to...
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Singapore, not only world’s most miserable place but also one which is devoid...
I’d think the following excerpt from a recent BBC article is actually alarming. It goes to show what a complete control Lee Kuan Yew has over his people. No one dares to help anyone in Singapore, in my...
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Dear TRS, PRC couple allow their kid to run around naked and pee on the floor
Dear The Real Singapore,I saw a boy running around naked at Changi Food Centre during dinner time yesterday (Apr 1).The parents of the boy, who are Chinese nationals, also allowed the boy to pee openly...
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Netizens Slam MediaCorp Over Distasteful Muslim Cheating Husband Prank
Netizens, especially those from the Malay Muslim community, have heavily criticised MediaCorp for a distasteful April fool's joke.A viral video of a Malay 'makcik' catching her cheating husband on the...
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Remisiers' Woes in Singapore
Dear TheRealSingapore, I have a story/opinion I like to share with our fellow readers. Its about the unfair situation the Remisiers in singapore have to face ( not sure about other countrys). My friend...
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The origins of xenophobia in Singapore.
Author: Michael D. Barr, Flinders UniversityIt appears counter-intuitive to suggest that a cosmopolitan hub like Singapore might have a problem with xenophobia.Yet xenophobia has emerged as a major...
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