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Public Buses are Not Child-Friendly
Regarding this week’s Talking Point, “How family-friendly are we?”, I wish to share the difficulty of boarding public buses.I am a mother of a five-year-old and a five-month-old infant, and being...
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No Poverty in Singapore?
The issue of poverty is a very sensitive one in one of the world’s richest city state with the highest percentage of millionaires. How can there be poverty when there are no beggars, or the poor here...
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Singaporean Democracy: Old Habits Die Hard
In Indonesia, democracy and freedoms are rushing ahead, and in Thailand both are in retreat. The Singapore elite seems to have found a middle way: putting the brakes on an emerging democratic backlash...
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Cash is Still King
The tightwads hanging on to our Central Provident Funds (CPF) with a death grip would like you to believe that every senior citizen will blow their life savings in a jiffy on a second wife in Batam....
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Five Retirement Myths That Singaporeans Should Stop Believing
Retirement is an increasingly contentious issue in Singapore. The issues are varied, ranging from the adequacy of the Central Provident Fund (CPF) to the rising cost of living.Amid all the coffee shop...
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Did Lee Hsien Loong breach the Ministerial Code of Conduct?
I made the following posts on Facebook at midnight on Friday. I have now decided to put the posts up on my blog to answer some online commentsI am seriously concerned that the PM has breached the...
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The Lee Kuan Yew that very few Singaporeans know about
To Catch A Tartar: A Dissident In Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison is an excellent study of the conceit and deceit of a man many Singaporeans thought they knew. The author, Francis Seow, is a former solicitor...
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PAP Supporters Give Too Much Credit to the PAP
I don't understand the logic of PAP supporters and their IBs.They say things like:"You bunch of oppositions supporters are all ingrates. Did you not have a home to go to at the end of the day and did...
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PM’s Press Secretary Puts Words in Roy’s Mouth When he Wasn’t Even Present?
According to the Straits Times news report “Press sec to PM Lee refutes allegations over her statement on blogger’s case” (Jan 13) – “In a five-page media statement, Ms Chang cited notes taken by...
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As a Muslim, I'm Fed Up With the Hypocrisy of the Free Speech Fundamentalists
Dear liberal pundit,You and I didn't like George W Bush. Remember his puerile declaration after 9/11 that "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists"? Yet now, in the wake of another...
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Review: To Singapore, with Love
To Singapore, with LoveDirected and Produced by Tan Pin Pin, 70 mins. SingaporeEnglish, Mandarin, Malay, Hainanese with English and Chinese subtitlesSitting on a porch in Kuala Lumpur, Dr. Ang Swee...
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Roy should Appeal to Overturn Judge Lee’s Judgment
The 7 Nov 2014 judgment of High Court Judge Lee Seiu Kin held that Roy Ngerng had defamed LHL when he conveyed ‘the natural and ordinary meaning that … the Prime Minister of Singapore and the Chairman...
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Roy: PM Lee’s Press Secretary Lied and She Should Apologise to Me Immediately
After the pre-trial conference (PTC) for the defamation suit on Monday, the prime minister’s secretary lied about what my lawyer and I said. Yesterday, she released another statement to continue to...
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Even Singaporeans Earning Five Figures can Struggle in Singapore
There is something wrong with the Singapore social and economic structure systems.Even for Singaporeans who earn five figure sum per month many of them are still working full time still mired in...
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Flexi-Medisave: CHAS can but Polyclinics Cannot?
New Flexi-Medisave schemeAccording to the Straits Times news report “New Flexi-Medisave scheme allows elderly to reduce outpatient expenses” (Jan 11) – “Come April 1, Singaporeans aged 65 and above...
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Retirement Adequacy – Use those Reserves!
Turning off the lights in the office for the last time, the writer joins the ranks of the early retired. Here is his solution to retirement inadequacy to complete the series on SG reserves. First, a...
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The Green Line
I want to regale my account of the last week (dry January, meh it's not for me), but something else has really tickled me this morning, and I have to share it. I'm sure many people trying to take the...
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If Singapore were to Survive
(The original text of this letter was sent to ST Forum but it was not published.)Celebrations aside, SG50 is also a time for soul-searching.I belong to the Pioneer Generation that mostly lent its...
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3 Situations Where a Personal Loan Could Save Your Ass
Unless you need money to urgently purchase a bazooka, before your home gets overrun by a gang of marauding zombies, do NOT take up a personal loan. Yes, you heard us right, don’t do it.Taking out a...
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Defence Spending in Singapore is a Waste of Money
“In a world where the big fish eat small fish and the small fish eat shrimps, Singapore must become a poisonous shrimp,” said Lee Kuan Yew.“I may not completely destroy you, but you’d have to pay a...
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