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The PAP Does NOT Own the Votes of Uniformed Singaporeans!
To my non-scholar brothers and sisters in the SAF, Police and Civil Defence:In view of the predicted early arrival of the next general election in 2015, I would like to highlight the belief amongst our...
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Japan needs foreign workers, but will they come?
Faced with a dwindling population and severe labor shortage, Japan aims to attract more foreign workers, but a rapidly depreciating yen and lack of rights stand in the way."Japan needs to compete for...
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Why Your Children will Suffer if you Vote PAP
I usually veer off away from political conversations but each time I see PAP Ministers taking the low road of using ad hominem (personal attacks) on the oppositions, which is a fallacy and adds no...
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Some More Questions on CPF Interest Arrears?
The failure to give answers and respond adequately to questions on the financial well-being of its CPF calls into question – reputation and integrity, it was said yesterday.It also demonstrates a lack...
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Enemies of the State
This is a tag that no one should be made to wear for all the wrong and frivolous reasons. The seriousness of this tag is that the person could see himself behind bars for life. This is no joking matter...
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This is the “Singapore DNA” That Makes Us Work and Study like Robots Every Day
“Study hard, find a good job and retire.”Whether you’re eight or eighty, if you live in Singapore, you would have heard of this before. This is the formula for Singaporeans. Yes, it seems harmless (and...
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Wealthy, Elite Kishore Mahbubani Urges Singaporeans to Love Singapore
I saw this sticker on the top right hand corner of the ST today. I swear my eyes were not deceiving me. My first thought, goodness, this is deep trouble. I have written a few articles questioning...
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Kishore Mahbubani Thinks There is No Place in Singapore for Political Cartoons
In #TheStraitsTimes today. With all due respect, a public intellectual like Mr Mahbubhani does nobody any favours when he writes, "Singapore is clearly not yet ready for political cartoons". He goes...
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Attractive CPF Returns or IPS Naivety?
The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) research on CPF returns reported by the Straits Times on 9 December 2014 makes an interesting read. That is if research shaped to please the government is your cup...
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PMETs, Do you Want to Work for Someone Your Whole Life?
I would urge all jobless PMETs who can afford to, to start businesses and not only those jobless PMETs but those with jobs too. We have to ween ourselves off this “employee” mentality that has been...
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PAP Should Reveal the Number of Bad Investments in GIC and Our CPF Losses
On 12 Nov, I highlighted one of GIC’s investments, Serco Group Plc, whose share price had fallen by 40% within 5 months. It recently fell by another 15%.Within a mere 6 months, GIC has accumulated...
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Why Do We Pay our Ministers Millions when So Many S’poreans are Struggling?
Let’s us all imagine this scenario:Our ministers making millions of dollars in salaries, Singaporeans average salary is SGD 10,000 dollars per month, our pioneer citizen has a sufficient nest for his...
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Business Licenses and the Medisave Blackmail
Can someone tell me:Why I am being blackmailed into contributing to (my) Medisave to renew my company license?Monies in my Medisave that I will never see in my lifetime. Makes no sense that I also have...
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What Kind of People to Form the New Government?
A blogger writing under the name of United Opposition Front posted an article in the TRE with the title ‘Forming the new govt’. In his first sentence he wrote this, ‘Do we have in our opposition a...
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Vote for Checks on FTAs, Vote for Our Survival
Following Desmond Lee’s calls for transparency and accountability, I believe it is in line with his concerns that we have to vote in more non-PAP for the same.While CPF is a bugbear and a big nail in...
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Next General Election will not be a Fight to see who forms the Government
<Pic credit: Yahoo! Singapore>I refer to the 8 Dec 2014 Straits Times report “Next General Election will be a fight to see who forms government: PM Lee”.Was PM Lee trying to pull a fast one when...
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NTUC: A Secret Organisation – No Financial Statements?
U Care Fund gave out less moneyAccording to the Sunday Times news report “NTUC aid falls slightly as wages rise” (Dec 14) – “Last year, these vouchers were given out to some 29,880 families and...
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The Ambulance Road Hog and Two Driving Tips We Can Learn From Malaysians
The Ambulance Road Hog And 2 Driving Tips We Can Learn From The MalaysiansMany were aghast to read The New Paper’s Thursday headline about a road hog deliberately preventing a private ambulance from...
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Love Affair with Communism
Associate professor K Ramakrishna of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies is embarking on a rewrite of his version of Operation Coldstore and resurrecting the spectre of the communist...
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AHPTEC Saga: While Politicians Play, People Get Played Out
It is a sad indictment of Singapore’s petty politics, petty leadership and, indeed, petty leaders how the AHPETC saga is currently unfolding. The 2 parties on either side of the war of words are both...
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