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Can CPF interest rates be higher? (Part 2)
[Part 1 - Can CPF interest rates be higher? (Part 1)]Consider a person who had started his employment at the age of 20 in January 1975 and is soon to be age 60 in January 2015. His present situation –...
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Lessons From Hong Kong
“Singapore is at a crossroads. How the country moves forward will depend on the choices that the people and their leaders make today. The incentives that those in power build into the system will...
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Proliferation of Moneylenders within HDB Estates
As I was walking around the area near Clementi MRT station, I noticed a proliferation of licensed moneylenders there. I counted more than 10 such businesses within a 200m radius.This is alarming but...
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Open Letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Dear PM Lee Hsien LoongThank you and your PAP team for putting your best for Singapore over the years. Under your leadership, the casinos, Garden By the Bay, Bishan River, Project Jewel and Jurong...
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GIC to Jointly Buy US Logistics Portfolio for S$10.7 Billion
Global Logistic Properties Ltd on Monday said it had teamed up with Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd to invest $8.1 billion in a U.S. logistics real estate portfolio, its first foray into...
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If you are not a Millionaire, you shouldn’t Retire, say DBS Financial Experts
In this ST article, DBS financial experts calculated that S$900,000 is needed to fund a S$3,500 monthly payout during retirement.You need to be a millionaire in order to retire. This is cause for...
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Pro-PAP Site Mothership.sg Thinks Singaporeans are Stupid
Dr Chee Soon Juan wrote a co-op piece on The Wall Street Journal on 27 November 2014 titled ‘A New Vision for Singapore‘. He repeated his call for PAP to conduct free & fair elections and release...
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Is the GRC system fair in Singapore?
As has been common in the last few general elections, the opposition is once again clamouring about how the Group Representation Constituencies (GRC) system of Singapore is flawed. GRC system is a...
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Beware PAP’s old tricks to con middle-ground voters
<pic credit: Channel News Asia>Threat / Framing the mindDuring the PAP’s 60th anniversary rally held yesterday, PM Lee Hsien Loong said that the next general election would be “a deadly serious...
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Lee Hsien Loong: PAP Must Set the Standard!
The PAP has started its election rally yesterday. And the speeches were as normal as any political rally from any politician. In colloquial style, they amount to ‘Lin peh is the best. Lin peh serve the...
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The Opposition has a 50% Chance of Forming Government at the Next General...
[photo credit: The Economist]The opposition has a 50-50 chance of forming government at the next general election. This also means that the PAP has a 50 percent chance of falling out of favour with...
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New Vision, Same Bull
We should thank Lee Hsien Loong for succinctly summarising all that is wrong with the current regime:"When we face problems, we acknowledge them publicly, and deal with them. We don't pretend there's...
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A Deadly Serious Election
PM Lee has said that the next General Election will be 'deadly serious' as each constituency would be fought on national issues, not local issues. Each constituency will fight a National Election and...
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Angry Citizens Write to the Govt to Protest the Protestors at Prof Thio...
Law Professor Thio Li-Ann was recently invited to give a seminar on Human Rights at the European Union Delegation in Singapore.Dr Thio had been giving a speech on human rights but this had sparked...
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Let the Opposition win one-third in the coming GE
Former Malaysian PM Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi takes a sniff of a durian while his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong inspects another specimen during a durian feast in Langkawi on May 15, 2007. —...
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45% of Singaporeans Admit that they would Re-Gift Unwanted Christmas Presents
According to the Rakuten Shopping Secrets Survey, 45% of Singaporeans admitted that they would re-gift unwanted Christmas Presents.This was also the highest figure among all the countries surveyed.The...
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民主的内涵
观点碰撞李艺强先生在《多党制的坏处》（《联合早报》2014年11月27日言论版）一文中，揣测拙文《变质的不是民主》（11月3日言论版）中所谓的民主就是指多党制，并表示“民主是好东西，变质的不是民主，孙君的这些评语都没有错，错就错在把多党制等同于民主”。笔者对于此种辩论表示欢迎，并由衷感谢李君的善意提醒，令我深感有必要强调一下我心目中的民主，以免大家的讨论偏离了共同的基础而南辕北辙。对于民主的定义可谓...
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Hsien Loong – Next GE a Deadly Serious Fight for Singapore’s Future
I quote Neo Chai Chin’s first paragraph in the front page of Today on the PAP60 Rally dated 8 Dec. ‘The Republic’s future and society are at stake in the next General Election because it will be about...
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Standard Chartered Marathon: Cheaters Everywhere?
Right firstly this post is going to be a bad bad post along the line of cyber bullying. So don't read on if you do not believe in cyber bullying because this is gonna be a name and shame post.And...
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The Message Is Clear
Without access to the exif data embedded in the original files, it is impossible to determine which of the two images were captured on camera first. What is absolutely clear is that one picture says...
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