NMP Eugene Tan: Top schools must do more to fight elitism
MR DELANE Lim ("RI students not 'elitist'"; June 3) has misunderstood the thrust of my remarks in Parliament on May 30 on the debate on the President's Address.While I fully endorse the policy goal of...
View ArticleYou Have Been A Naughty Boy, Kenny
Even when he was rooting for the Opposition, the Pundit never liked Kenny Jeyaretnam. Many politicians have an exaggerated sense of their importance in the grand scheme of things. Kenny J is one of...
View ArticlePAP Supporter: PAP critics should 'get real'
Who can Singaporeans trust if not the present Government that has 60.1 per cent of the vote from the 2011 General Election ("Govt refutes author's claims over public trust"; June 14)?Do we have an...
View ArticleDid CPF withhold the 76 year old lady's CPF money unconstitutionally?
At Hri Kumar’s CPF dialogue, an elderly lady got up to ask Kumar how she could get her money back.The event, titled “CPF- An Honest Coversation: Public Dialogue with Thomson-Toa Payoh Residents” was...
View ArticleDebunking Huffington Post: Why Singapore is hell for average residents
Last month, Huffington Post journalist Andres Martinez wrote a well-publicised article on why Singapore is the perfect country of our times. In his article, he cites how the wisdom of Emeritus Minister...
View ArticleRetired Teacher CPF Saga: Something Doesn't Add Up
In their belated clarification today, the CPF Board and Amy Khor said that they had been in constant contact with Ms Irene Yap since at least 2012. They note that Ms Yap was told she could withdraw her...
View ArticleIrene Yap’s case, a follow up reported in ST
I just read the ST this morning and there is a report on Rene Yap’s case. According to Amy Khor, CPF is trying to help Rene to withdraw her savings. However, Rene still has to abide by CPF’s...
View ArticleWork-Life Grant: Another Example of PAP Simply Throwing Money at Problems
Time and time again, we have seen how our simple minded PAP leaders like to throw money at problems and thinking it might solve the root of the problem.We have seen how they want to throw money Baby...
View ArticlePAP will continue to profit from low wage workers
Roy Ngerng wrote an article “Can low wage workers earn higher wages in Singapore?” in December last year.The answer is clearly ‘yes’ provided the government accepts that it must not continue to profit...
View ArticlePAP is a conservative party compared to the Workers Party
The Pink Dot Movement has been gaining support year on year and now the FREE LOVE movement has achieved so much popularity and support from regular Singaporeans that religious groups are going all out...
View ArticleAlternative Sexualities: A pinch of tolerance, and less bigotry please
I read on The Online Citizen that FCBC (Faith Community Baptist Church) and the LoveSingapore network of churches are joining Muslims in protest of the pro-LGBT Pink Dot event, through the Wear White...
View ArticleWhy are our Singapore culture getting worse these days?
<pic credit: remembersingapore.wordpress.com>In 1979 the Ministry of Culture launched a National Courtesy Campaign. The objective was to encourage Singaporeans to adopt a courteous lifestyle and...
View ArticleGoh Chok Tong’s meaningless Facebook post
Dear Mr Goh,I am happy to know you have finally woken up to the fact that “workers at the bottom of the heap” have been shortchanged for years.I am shocked you took so long to figure out the ‘solution’...
View ArticlePAP Minister Wong Kan Seng keeps his job for making mistakes but not Blogger Roy
Mas Selamat was lost under the care of pap’s leadership at Whitley Road Detention Centre.At 4:05 pm on Wednesday, 27 February 2008, the JI leader escaped from the Internal Security Department’s Whitley...
View ArticleThere is no reason for GIC and Temasek Holdings to borrow money from your CPF
There are people who say that CPF monies, under the Mnimum Sum Scheme, provides a secure source of funding for GIC and Temasek Holdings. But I am really with Tharman on this issue. It really is easy...
View ArticleCan PAP Pragmaticism Arrest the Deficit Public Trust?
Is the magic of PAP pragmatism as effective as before? Has the social divide become deficit public trust? To answer these questions, we will have to look at the history of time. Comparing 20 or 30...
View ArticleLocal School Teacher and Mother: Singapore Education System is a Failure
Dear The Real Singapore,Being a school teacher, I can tell you our education system is a failure.Most of the school teachers are bogged down with too many students and too much non-teaching workload....
View ArticleI am worried to see so many teachers in Singapore having sex with our students
I AM appalled to read that yet another teacher has been charged in court for betraying his student's trust in him ("Teacher 'used student as sexual plaything'"; last Wednesday).The rising number of...
View ArticlePAP lets Religious Fundies do its dirty job for them
The Muslim religious fundies led by Ustaz Noor Deros, NUS lecturer Syed Khairudin Aljunied and Zulfikar Sharif have started a "Wear White" campaign to counter the popular Pink Dot Movement. A movement...
View ArticleCPF members shortchanged by government, misled by mainstream media
I refer to ST article “Can’t please all Fund members” and TRS article by Jeremy Chen. There are obvious half-truths in the ST article which Jeremy did not question. I will highlight ST’s half truths...
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