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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...

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You 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...

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PAP 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...

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Did 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...

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Debunking 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...

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Retired 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...

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Irene 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...

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Work-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...

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PAP 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...

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PAP 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...

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Alternative 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...

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Why 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...

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Goh 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’...

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PAP 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...

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There 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...

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Can 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...

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Local 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....

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I 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...

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PAP 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...

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CPF 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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