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MP's Tight-Rope - To Be Pro-Residents Or Pro-Business?
One of the questions raised by some from the Fernvale columbarium saga is this: is your Member of Parliament (MP) suppose t represent you and speak on your behalf, or is his role to defend others with...
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Globalisation – It’s all Coming Back Home, Charb knows
The Paris attack on a controversial magazine, Charlie Hebdo and killing its editor Stephane Charbonnier, is taking the western world to a new reality. They can never hide under the name of freedom of...
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Proof of LHL Being ‘Promoted’ into a Level of Incompetence
As a student, LHL excelled academically and had a remarkable military career (shortest time to rise from recruit to second in-command in the army, in around 8 years minus the time taken for his...
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Refuse to Behave: Subhas Anandan
Singapore’s best known criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan has died of heart failure. You can see a host of reactions from social media. Some went totally out of point and highlighted that even a man with...
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Dr Goh Warned About Depending on FTs for Growth
Yes, Dr Goh did warn about Singapore’s dependence on FTs for growth way back in 1972. At the time, he was speaking in his personal capacity at a symposium.He had previously discussed and sought the...
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Singapore's Meritocracy Should be About Making a Level Playing Field
Hard-road meritocracy, from the log cabin to the White House, is said to have made the United States the superpower it is today.This should not be equated with a limousine ride to the best school and...
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Pinoy and PRC Diplomatic Behaviour Contrasted
(Or “Pinoy Pride at work: OK for Pinoys to threaten, insult S’poreans but not vice versa)The Filipino embassy told a Filipino nurse to be “extra careful with his social media usage”*, days after the...
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Pinoy and PRC Diplomatic Behaviour Contrasted
(Or “Pinoy Pride at work: OK for Pinoys to threaten, insult S’poreans but not vice versa)The Filipino embassy told a Filipino nurse to be “extra careful with his social media usage”*, days after the...
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Dead Rat Found in Porridge Buffet Dishes at Hot Pot Culture
A dead rat was found in one of the dishes at a porridge buffet at Hot Pot Culture at Marina Square leaving customers disgusted.The shocking discovery was made by a customer, Caron Chan who found a rats...
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8 Things you Didn’t Know About Pinnacle@Duxton
The Pinnacle@Duxton development in Tanjong Pagar made headlines after a four-room corner unit was sold recently on the resale market for a sky-high price of $900,000, according to media reports.Located...
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Extra Charges by Private Ambulance Normal Practice?
At 9.15am on Dec 21 last year, I contacted the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) to request an ambulance to take my wife there, as she had a relapse of schizophrenia.Though I was surprised at the hefty...
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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook will not give in to the demands of Islamic Extremists
A few years ago, an extremist in Pakistan fought to have me sentenced to death because Facebook refused to ban content about Mohammed that offended him.We stood up for this because different voices --...
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Screwed For Life
CPF LIFE is supposed to be an annuity scheme that provides members with an income for life from their drawdown age (DDA) or when they join the scheme, whichever is later. In any commercial annuity...
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Nurture Innovators, Not Administrators
No matter how hard the Education Ministry tries to transform the primary school curriculum, the almost sole reliance on academic results for progression and placement in good schools has put paid to...
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The PAP Sausage Making Machine, Foreign Professors and Our Inferiority Complex
A warningI have been warning for the past five years about the effect of an open-door foreign worker policy in depressing the wages of native Singaporean workers and in particular low-income workers. I...
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American Living in SG: Edz Ello Should be Fired, Fined, Jailed then Deported
Sadly, I have to side with Singapore on this one. Now one would ask, "Why? You're an American." Because a lot of the same attitude has been revealed in America by Filipinos. Now this is not to say that...
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Most Expensive Hospital - All Ward Classes?
Recently, one of our public hospitals became famous for the action which it took (compared to the immediate sacking of Roy Ngerng citing his defamation of the prime minister as one of the reasons,...
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6 Things You Need to Know About Malaysia's Massive Land Reclamation Project
The ongoing controversy surrounding development of a massive reclamation project off the coast of Johor has been one of this week’s biggest news stories.Touted as the largest reclamation works of its...
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Singapore Now Enjoys the World’s 10th Fastest Broadband Speeds
According to US-based Internet specialist, Akamai Technologies, Singapore has the 10th fastest broadband speeds in the world.In Singapore, there is an average connection speed of 12.2Mbps as of the...
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# Je Suis Leslie Chew
I want to explain why I have changed my profile picture on Facebook and put up the thumbnail you see above.Yesterday I changed the profile picture for my “Kenneth Jeyaretnam TeamRP Facebook profile to...
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