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Did they promise us Swiss or India’s standard of living?
The first riot in Singapore in 40 years happened during last December, known as the Little India Riot. It was caused by foreign workers, really?It’s unfair to discriminate others just because they are...
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Dear Chinese People...
Dear Chinese people,When did it all begin? Maybe the Speak Mandarin campaign, which was first designed to demote the use of dialects and which gradually expanded to guilt-trip the English-speaking...
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Is Fining Public Transport Operators For Services Lapses Even Effective?
Dear TRS, My name is Dayan and I am the developer of FAILRAIL.sg. I wanted to share with you and your readers some of the inconsistencies with LTA fines. There was a LTA announcement on fines for train...
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My mother finally talks to me about sex
This morning, for the first time in my life, my mom and I had a conversation about relationships and sex.It wasn’t so much a talk than a confrontation that required her to bring up the topic. It lasted...
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温庆霖：怎样当个新加坡人？
在这个尴尬的时代，我们怎么当个新加坡人？和前几代人相比，现在新加坡已经截然不同。诚然，我们仍在世界的地图上小得可以忽略；我们仍在国际社会中，积极找寻更多生存的空隙。但是比起近两百年前莱佛士初到的小渔村，或是49年前被迫分离的穷酸样，现今的新加坡肯定是不可同日而语。回首过去近半个世纪，环境的确美化了，从机场一路绿意盎然，一直是我给初到新加坡的外国友人介绍的重点。民生确实好了，居者有其屋的计划，保证了国...
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Dear TRS, I am worried to see a group of Singaporeans openly supporting ISIS
Disclaimer: TheRealSingapore.com is a platform for users to submit content and all content remains the property of the individual contributors. The views and opinions expressed by author(s) within the...
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Where are school buses bringing your kids?
With rising costs, school bus operators will do everything to make ends meet. This could mean more pickups, delayed schedule, driving faster and making judgement errors - do you really trust your dear...
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The basic law of supply and demand explains our depressed wages, not laziness
This is a quick response to "The inevitable problem with foreigners and what to do about it"You think that the solution to foreigners "stealing our jobs" is to improve ourselves. Strangely enough, you...
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Brighter prospect for cleaners
Some years ago this guy came to me for advice on his career path. He was going to take up the job as a cleaner and he wanted to know if there was any prospect in this job. Yes I called it a job, not a...
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Moderate Muslims in Singapore must speak up
A Singapore company Al-Benyahya Enterprise hogged the media limelight recently for the sale of alleged ISIS flags. The owner has denied links to terrorism and lodged a police report to protect his...
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Singaporeans who use the Lease Buyback Scheme actually lose about $1.1m?
We refer to the article “HDB Lease Buyback Scheme changes: More cash a draw, but some prefer to bequeath their flats” (Straits Times, Sep 4).“Bend over backwards”?It states that “The revamp raises the...
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Lease Buyback: The Sell Out Option
Somebody must have peed in their pants. The national library put the books back on the shelves, the housing board apologized before animal rights groups could bite, and now the Ministry of National...
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PAP’s flawed immigration policy has brought grief to Singaporeans
While our ‘unionists’ fear the proposed CPF lump sum withdrawal “will bring grief” to low-wage workers, they have somehow overlooked local workers’ grief resulting from PAP’s flawed immigration.The PAP...
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PAP is Pushing Singapore PRs to Become Citizens to Prepare for GE2015
Dear The Real Singapore, Recently, the news about how a PRC man who cheated a 87 year old Widow was exposed as a scam artiste who got into Singapore with fake qualifications. Click...
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Singapore going all Digital TV deprives poor of their basic entertainment
<pic credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiuhukia/>As Singapore is going to broadcast fully in digital in two years time, have anyone ever thought of the repercussion that will effect the poor...
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Why are so many top civil servants and ministers Military Generals?
By Recruiting more from the Armed Forces, is the PAP preparing for a coup? Is our government a stratocracy (a form of government headed by military chiefs)?Have you ever wondered why so many of our top...
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Dumbed-down Academics and the 177 Prostitutes
Three academics from Nanyang Technological University, Boston University and Fudan University spent two years interviewing 177 freelance prostitutes plying their trade in Singapore and came up with...
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7 Real reasons why Singaporeans “no need degrees"
We refer to the article “Growing concerns over graduate employment” (Straits Times, Sep 5).Root cause – foreign labour policies?The root cause of the recent rhetoric of “no need degree” may be our...
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Recognize The Evil
On Saturday 30 Aug, three young men in Beirut protested by torching the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag, a black banner emblazoned with the Muslim tenet "there is no god but God...
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The importance of social media to Singapore politics
Writing on sociopolitical websites bring forth ideas and information about Singapore politics and conditions and it is good to share opinions, information and how ministers becoming billionaires while...
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