Foreign Students get 7 Times More than Singaporeans?
More undergrads get financial aidAccording to the Straits Times news report “More undergrads seeking financial aid, and getting it” (Dec 31) – “Before 2011, its (NUS) students from households with a...
View ArticleRaise legal smoking age by a year, every year
I support the call for the Government to review the smoking situation in Singapore. The argument that smoking is a choice or a right rests on shaky foundations. (“Make S’pore a smoke-free nation”; Dec...
View ArticlePAP Politicians Depend 100% on Tax Dollars but Taxpayers Don’t Need Them
If the PAP has governed Singapore well, it deserves all the credit and the million-dollar salary. The fact is it does not even govern but runs our country as PAP private limited company.PAP politicians...
View ArticleBirth Rate and National Service
Singapore is facing a crisis of low birth rate amongst its women population. For 2013, Singapore women produced a whopping 1.19 babies per woman, down from 1.29 the year prior. In this article, I will...
View ArticleAllow Singles to Live Closer to Aged Parents
I APPLAUD National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan's efforts to help different groups meet their housing needs and enable families to live closer together ("HDB to focus on helping families live...
View ArticleIs This the Dog Life we Aspire to in 1st World Singapore?
Domestically driven inflation by sky high rental and government chargesBecoming a nation of down-graders under PM LHLForced to rent out rooms and share miserable existence with FT tenantsThese are...
View ArticleDid HDB and URA Hide Facts about Columbarium from Residents?
Did HDB AND URA hide facts about columbarium from residents?Following the uproar over the proposal to build a columbarium in the middle of a residential estate and next to the Fernvale Lea BTO, the MP...
View ArticleNew Year Message: Real Gross, Basic & Total Income Growth Near 0?
10% real income growth last 5 yearsAccording to the Straits Times front page headlines news report “PM calls for productivity push amid muted growth” (Jan 1) – “Overall, Singapore is in a better...
View ArticlePM Lee Busy using New Year Celebrations to Praise Himself and Criticize...
At the New Year's Eve celebration hijacked by the PAP to eulogize itself under the pretext of commemorating S'pore's 50th year of independence, Lee Hsien Loong said:""In many countries, people are...
View ArticleWho Will Guard the Guards?
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Latin for "Who will guard the guards?" is the perfect expression for the sorry state of Singapore's current political climate. As 2014 comes to a close, we suddenly see...
View ArticleGovt says the Young Don't Want to Pay for the Old but the Govt doesn't Pay...
“Japan’s young are unhappy they have to pay for pensions and medical care for the old”According to The Real Singapore editorial “PM LEE QUOTES JAPANESE ARTICLE TO SAY THE YOUNG DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR A...
View ArticleOff to a Flying Start
When the Flying Dutchman announced he was going off the air, he wasn’t too explicit about his plans other than focusing on his businesses outside radio, “… shore up the businesses to make sure they...
View Article2015: Is Singapore Ready For An Indian Prime Minister?
Some years ago, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew famously said Singapore was not ready for an Indian prime minister when he dropped S Dhanabalan from consideration for the job. Though Mr Lee’s words...
View ArticleThe Japanese Story PM Lee Didn’t Tell us
For some reason, AhLoong is such an easy person for me to get annoyed with.Juz as I was thinking that I was going too far in making fun* of a basically decent chap trying to live up to dad’s...
View ArticlePolitical Entrepreneurship is Supreme Entrepreneurship
Many entrepreneurs are struggling in the very competitive world of business to make their marks and their first million. Some made it eventually but many failed and got lost, became unknown. The...
View ArticleOnly 1 Employer Penalised for Discriminating Singaporeans? What about the...
1 Employer PenalisedAccording to the Straits Times news report “Marine firm banned from hiring foreign workers for discrimination against locals” (Dec 29) – “A local marine company has been banned from...
View ArticleCost of Living Comparison: Singapore, San Francisco and Vancouver
In this article, I will compare the cost of living in Singapore against that in United States and Canada. This is to illustrate what the actual living costs are for these three countries, and the...
View ArticleFilipino Foreign Talents move into more Sectors of Employment in Singapore
Remember earlier this yr, when GMS, Gilbert Goh and various anti-PAP paper warriors were proclaiming victory when the Pinoys called off their “trespass” (taz how GMS spun a Pinoy plan to hold a party...
View ArticleMOM’s ‘Toothless’ Action Against Marine Company
Has the Ministry of Manpower really helped the 13 Singaporeans who were retrenched unfairly by marine company Prime Gold International (“MOM bars marine firm from hiring foreigners”; Tuesday)?It...
View ArticleDelusional to think PGP Can Win Back Votes
Pioneers were ‘generally appreciative’ of the extra 50% medicine subsidy, which kicked-in this year as announced under the Pioneer Generation Package (PGP).This is delusional, self-praised, mental...
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