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Proposal: A way to recruit FTs that is fair to Singaporeans
There has been a lot of talk recently about the shortage of skilled labour in the service industry, with no solution in the offing (“What ails the service industry?” by Miss Christine Chan Simin; last...
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Over-idealistic vision of NS
Dr Parag Khanna’s vision of broadening national service roles beyond the armed forces is overly idealistic (“National service for the 21st century”; last Saturday).The primary purpose of NS is national...
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80% of Singaporeans Are Poorer Than A Cleaner In Norway
By Leong Sze Hian, Han Hui Hui and Roy NgerngWe went to Oslo, Norway earlier this month.Norway has many things in common with Singapore. Norway has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world. So...
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Oh no … not another labour disputes panel?
We refer to the article “More PMEs may get help in disputes with employers” (Straits Times, Apr 30).Recently … all of a sudden … so many new help schemes?It states that “More professionals who join...
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How many PAP candidates will stand down in the next GE?
In every GE PAP will take the opportunity to do some self renewal with some veterans or non performers being replaced. In the last GE 24 new candidates were introduced while 18 were retired. How many...
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Over-idealistic vision of NS
<Above pic: Dr Parag was an adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He stirred quite a heated debate recently among the Singapore...
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The Crime of the Bystander
First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a CommunistThen they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a SocialistThen they came for the...
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Why vote for another PAP parrot? All of them will just follow what the Prime...
A friend of mine (who is largely politically-neutral) shared this story: A PAP MP went on a walkabout at his block and they had a chat over what was residents' concerns.As a result, my friend expressed...
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Food-coupon donation drive?
I was walking by a mall one fine day, and was approached by a young male adult. I’m sure many people have encountered what I am about to describe next. He started to ask for donations and walked along...
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Loyalty and Righteousness
Loyalty and righteousness to the country is expected of everyone. The head of the family is loyal to his family. The other members of the family see and observe that the head is sincere, diligent and...
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Let Us Not Just Be Keyboard Warriors
As George Orwell said in Animal Farm,On Sunday evening (27/4/2014) , I managed to identify an imposter of Gilbert Goh on Facebook.This imposter created a fake Gilbert Goh account, complete with the...
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Assisted suicide is a slippery slope
DR GEORGE Wong Seow Choon seems to be advocating assisted suicide ("Let patients choose how they wish to end their days"; Tuesday).His arguments work on the assumption that terminally ill individuals...
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Foreigners hit 50.5% of total workforce?
We refer to the article “Jobless rate inches up amid tight labour market” (Straits Times, May 1).Singaporeans’ unemployment increase to 3%It states that “The unemployment rate for Singapore citizens...
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10 Things That Are Not Right About Why The Government Wants Us To Pay Them...
Many things doesn’t make sense with how the government argues to pay themselves high salaries. Let’s take a look at 10 logical fallacies about their want for high salaries.(1) Why would the government...
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PAP cyber-bullying: Signs of Desperation or plain Gangsterism?
As the tide of opinion continues to go against them in the social media, the PAP Internet Brigade appear to be getting more desperate, and dangerous, engaging in harassment, name-calling, defamation...
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Not so simple to call it bigotry
I refer to the reports “Those who harassed Philippine Independence Day organisers ‘a disgrace to S’pore’: PM Lee” (online) and “S’poreans should say no to bigotry, says Tan Chuan-Jin” (both April...
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Foreigners will only create jobs for more Foreigners, just ask the PAP!
My fellow Singaporeans, after so many years of PAP saying we need foreign talents and foreigners create jobs for Singaporeans, it seems we all the obvious now, that foreigners create more jobs for...
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PAP, where is our Swiss Standard of Living as promised by Goh Chok Tong?
For 50 years we have been sold the idea by our great leader LKY that he and his group of politicians called the elites, scholars or high flyers with a hodgepodge of sycophants are the talents. They...
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TRS is necessary to counter Singapore media's censorship
My acquaintance posted a Facebook status pretty much blaming TRS for sharing the truth (screenshot attached; photo and name blanked out to respect his privacy) - he is most probably referring to some...
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5 Reasons Why Tan Chuan Jin's Promotion to Full Manpower Minister is Undeserving
I refer to PM Lee's announcement to promote Tan Chuan Jin to full Minister in May. Click onhttp://www.todayonline.com/singapore/pm-lee-announces-cabinet-changes Netizens have come up to blast their...
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