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10 Things The Government Has To Be Transparent About How They Use...
Part 2In the first part of the article, I discussed how the government has finally admitted that the GIC does use Singaporeans’ CPF to invest, after years of not admitting to this information. The GIC...
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SingTel’s handling of erratic World Cup telecast is disappointing
The mio TV World Cup telecast has been an unmitigated disaster for me.From Day 1, the transmission has been problematic with intermittent signal loss, frozen images and blank grey screens.SingTel’s...
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Financial Times correspondent: Me and my family was kicked out of Singapore
By John Burton It was December 2009 and my family and I were looking forward to celebrating Christmas. Instead we soon found ourselves scrambling to pack up our home in Singapore. The government had...
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PAP Faces Huge Challenges of Peer Effects and Threshold Changes
If we compare now and 20 years ago, we will be able to see the difference in peer effects and threshold of public trust on the PAP government. The same 60% PAP obtained in GE1991 and GE2011 indicates a...
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去伪存真 新加坡为什么这么恨中国？
本来国际关系的基本常识就纯粹利益关系，没有永远的朋友，没有永远的敌人，只有永远的利益。但许多中国人虽然通过各种代价学到这个基本常识，却有往往意无意在脑子里留了个后门，对新加坡另眼相看，多少带点感情，几乎把它当成...
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Politics has to be centered around SGs, not a party
The role of a good government is not to waste time defining what type politics PAP want, but what Singaporeans want.A good government will define what Singaporeans want. Whether it is the type of...
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The reason why PM Lee is lifting the food ban from Fukushima Japan
PAP’s GENOCIDAL POLICIES TOWARDS SINGAPORE WORKERS THROUGH Free Trade Agreement. (the real reason why PAP lifted the ban on imports of unsafe food products from Fukushima prefecture ). In exchange for...
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Why is the SAF punishing me just because I can't pass my IPPT?
Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Day is celebrated every July 1 to acknowledge the contributions of national servicemen — those on active or reservist duty, those who have completed their entire tour of...
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FIFA World Cup: Why Costa Rica can but not Singapore
Many football fans in Singapore may have wondered why Costa Rica, despite having a population of 4.8 million, could manage to get into the quarterfinals of the Football World Cup whereas Singapore had...
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Quitting MOE is the best career move I have ever made!
As a former MOE teacher, I can attest to this and add on by saying this: Quitting the MOE system is the BEST CAREER MOVE I’ve ever made.I have seen colleagues of the same age and NIE intake break down...
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A foreign professor telling us that we are walking naked?
In his article in the Today paper on 3 Jul 14, ‘Spore universities’ foreign talent policies need to change’, Professor Philip Holden, revisited the issue of disappearing Singaporean faculty members in...
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Ten grave fears of Singaporeans
1. No money - this is by far the greatest fear of most Singaporeans as we don't have welfare benefits like the west. Financial issue is also the top three reasons why our marriages break up and could...
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The Dirtiest Words In The PAP Vocabulary
The reason unfailingly given by the PAP government for any ruling that seems to put yet another curb on civic liberties is that there would otherwise be ‘disruption’. For instance, the Public Order...
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GST Vouchers: Real spending money or smoke?
Something I do not understand on GST Voucher payout to credit off the Utilities Account.I have a family of 5 staying with me. Looking at the MOF Letter, every family member is given a $180 to offset...
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So what if I am dating a Ang Moh boyfriend?
*photo for illustration purposes onlyDear The Real Singapore,My boyfriend is white. And because of that, I've been accused of being self loathing, denying my asian heritage and also gold digging.In...
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SOS Bukit Brown: URA and MND broke the Law when they Gazetted the Master Plan
The Chief Planner for the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) gazetted the 2014 Master Plan on 6 June 2014. In doing so, the URA and its parent ministry, the Ministry of National Development (MND)...
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PM Lee, Do you hear the people sing?
This is the speech delivered by Ariffin Sha at the Protest today at Hong Lim Park asking PM Lee to resign:Time and again we are told to move on.When Mas Selamat escaped, we were told to move on.When...
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The Committee to Strengthen NS & Little India Riot COI
A TALE OF TWO COMMITTEES– how not to conduct examinationsNS: Medication and Treatment Without Diagnosis of ConditionDr Ng Eng Hen correctly observed ‘…Others have dismantled their NS systems, not...
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CPF Life: Everyone shall wear the same size of shoes by law
CPF LIFE: Everyone shall wear the same size of shoes by lawThis has led Singaporeans to question the real motive for the CPF and its latest policy changesWe view CPF LIFE – the mandatory annuity scheme...
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Budget surplus revised by $10.8b?
Budget cash surplus $25.3b?According to Department of Statistics’ Monthly Digest of Statistics, June 2014 – the Budget cash surplus for FY2012 was $25.3 billion.Revised downwards from $36.1b?This is we...
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