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Dear TRS, The 13th Month Bonus Used to be Mandatory
Dear TRS,I refer to your article about the 13th month bonus: The Coveted 13th Month 'Bonus' In SingaporeAs far as I can remember, before 1997, the 13th month bonus was actually a mandatory requirement...
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Leslie Chew: I Don't know if I should Defend a Party that Hastily Criticises...
<above pic: Leslie Chew, the popular cartoonist behind the Facebook page Demoncratic Singapore>I started out making a comic regarding the blue party's latest battle with the white devils over the...
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700,000 “lower-income” workers? Does that mean 1 in 3 workers?
I refer to the articles “Shortage of 10,000 guards as people shun low-paid sector” and “When workers get Workfare, spouses work more” (Straits Times, Nov 26).The former states that “Only Singaporeans,...
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Hogwash of Tightening FT Influx Pushes up Inflation
Recently, there is this news:Inflation at near-5-year low as car, housing costs drop25 Nov 2014http://www.todayonline.com/business/inflation-near-5-year-low-car-housing-costs-dropPrices of goods and...
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The Case for Doing Away with the PSLE
By Andrew Yeo Zhi JianIn 1943, the author C.S. Lewis delivered a series of three lectures that would become The Abolition of Man, a classic text on public education that considers both the domains of...
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4 Questions to Ask at an Interview That Can Help You Determine If an Employer...
Being so desperate when you attend an interview that you’re willing to help your new boss tie his shoes might actually get you hired in Singapore. There’s nothing bosses like more than “hungry”...
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What the f**k PAP-voting Singaporeans?
I have made many trips to Cantonment Police Centre over the past 3 years to lodge 3 reports against harassments by PAP supporters, and the IOs never once get back to me. It seems like lodging a police...
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Mr Lee Kuan Yew wasn’t the visionary leader who brought success to our nation
Dear Professor Tan,I refer to the 5 Jun 2013 Straits Times report of your speech on the occasion of the conference of Doctor of Laws to Mr Lee Kuan Yew by NUS [1].Mr Lee wasn’t the visionary leader who...
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Quitting of SMRT CFOs shows how clueless the Army General CEO is
In all my years of working experience in IT, as a project manager and now as CIO, I have found that the best CFOs I’ve ever worked with can be very difficult sometimes, but at the same time, they can...
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Why Julien Blanc shouldn't be barred from entering Singapore
Background: PETITION TO BAN JULIEN BLANC FROM SINGAPORE TO PREVENT RAPE CULTUREIn case you haven't heard, self-proclaimed pick-up artist Julien Blanc has been barred from entering Singapore. According...
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Paper Qualifications
The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking® is reputed to be the most widely read university comparison of their kind. In addition to exploring the world's top 800 universities overall, you...
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S&CC Fees: Pay Only the Party you Voted for?
Below are the conversation between two bloggers on why they should or should not pay S&CC fees. I am an Aljunied resident living with my parents. Lately, due to some disagreements I had with the...
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is incompetent
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CPF used to finance other government obligations before 2001?
The PAP government has refused to be transparent on CPF issues.Members have been told our CPF has been invested in Special Singapore Government Securities (SSGS) issued by the Singapore government with...
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Singapore may not be the safest country in the world anymore
I refer to the 30 Aug 2014 Straits Times report “S’pore ‘must stay vigilant against violence’”.Singapore is not the safest country in the world. The safest country in the world is Liechtenstein with...
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NOL Suffers Bad Results with Former SAF Paper General at Helm
At the end of October, NOL announced: that losses continued in the third quarter with the company $23m in the red compared to a net profit of $20m a year earlier, hit by port congestion in Southern...
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What is $60 Billion?
During the global financial crisis it was officially reported that the combined losses of the two SWFs were $60b. It was a staggering figure and many people put a lot of 0s behind it, ie $...
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Leslie Chew's Criticism of Worker's Party Unfair
Popular satire cartoonist Leslie Chew - the creator/producer of 'Demon-cratic Singapore' cartoons made the following observation of the Workers Party (WP) in this Facebook (FB) post. The Facebook...
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In Good Company
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was honoured at a dinner held by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on Tuesday night. Among the 105 attendees present at its Senior Police Officers' Mess, it must be...
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PAP Policies Don't Hold Water
From text books for the young to the hardcopy newspapers for the old, Singaporeans across all ages have been told that the PAP policies are good. The PAP government will often support their policies...
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