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Gordon Ramsay says S'pore's chicken rice chilli is 'too spicy'
<Pic credit: Alvinology.com>Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has tried Tian Tian's Hainanese chicken rice and found the chilli 'too spicy'. The Scottish celebrity chef was at the stall earlier today...
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FTs sending kids to international schools show they’re not interested to...
“The Straits Times (ST) has published a story about a PR from India, Savita Agarwal, sending her child to a Singapore local school (‘She likes the way English is taught here’, 22 Jun 2013). Apparently,...
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90,000kg of dead fish: Was the haze responsible?
Since last Friday (28 Jun), thousands of dead fish have been found floating at sea and on the shore in Lim Chu Kang as well as the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR).News of the dead fish was first...
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MDA to make new rules 'clearer' but it's still a curb on free speech
The permanent secretary for the Ministry of Communications, Aubeck Kam, said that the MDA is working with the 10 news sites recently made to require a license to improve the wording of the new...
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Singaporeans have forgotten how to protest
This seems to be the observations culled from the comments by some bloggers following the epic Egyptian protest and the Hongkie protest this week. I think in terms of public gathering, Singaporeans are...
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Old and abandoned in JB
There is a growing number of elderly Singaporeans being abandoned by their families in nearby foreign countries.Once confined to hospitals and old folks’ homes in Singapore, these cases have now...
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Shandong driver in hit-and-run later discovers victim is own dad
In an ironic twist of fate, a Shandong man who nearly killed a scooter rider in a hit-and-run accident later discovered he had injured his own father.According to Shanghaiist, the accident happened...
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S'pore, largest arms purchaser in SE Asia, tells N Korea to halt nuke programme
This is like the class bully telling the school bully to stop harassing other kids, while he himself supports the town bully terrorizing and vandalizing the streets. Singapore, the most paranoid and...
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Time to abolish caning as a legal form of punishment
Singapore is unlike many other countries in that it still uses caning as a form of legal punishment. Most people would argue, rightly, that such a practice is barbaric. Caning as a legal form of...
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At 2% economic growth, PM claims to have got both politics and economics right
Written by Alex AuLee Hsien Loong and the Straits Times annoyed me again today. The newspaper, like the good toady it is, devoted its front page headline to the prime minister’s attempt to pass a...
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Indian Doctor molests 14-yr-old at St George’s hospital
MUMBAI: A 28-year-old doctor of St George's Hospital has been sacked for molesting a 14-year-old patient in front of her 68-year-old grandmother in the hospital, who had to be admitted to the ICU after...
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Most HR feel that Your degree is only 10% importance in getting a job
The 70:20:10 framework is a rule of the thumb framework adopted by most MNC HRs when deciding your competency and deciding if they should call you for interview or not. I worked in fortune 500...
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2 injured as car gets crushed by lorry in 4-vehicle Ang Mo Kio accident
TRS reader Dhiren saw a small hatchback get crushed by a lorry in a four-vehicle pile-up, which also involved a Mercedes saloon and a double-decker bus, along Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 on Saturday afternoon.The...
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Good Meritocracy and Bad Meritocracy
By Donald LowMeritocracy is widely regarded as a core principle of governance in Singapore. Basic disagreement over it was also one of the reasons why Singapore separated from Malaysia. The meritocracy...
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Our best and brightest should not take up accountancy
At some point in the recent past, I mentioned that if I had the choice I’d prefer that the best and brightest not take up accounting as a first career. (I even said something to the effect that, I’d...
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Stateless Snowden releases statement on WikiLeaks
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has blasted the Obama administration and announced that he actually had more details to release, even though it turned out that his relations with states who initially...
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Mollycoddled little emperors
By Andrew LohOn 30 June, Acting Minister for Manpower, Tan Chuan Jin, posted a status update on his Facebook page. In it, he pledged his support for SportsCares, an organisation which uses “sport...
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Many Singaporeans needed help despite already seeing their MPs
Last night, I was invited to observe a financial counseling session conducted by my good friend Leong Sze Hian and his group of volunteers.He wanted me to have a feel of the type of financial issues...
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Celebrate racial and religious harmony at your workplace this July
Living and working with colleagues, vendors and customers of different races and religions is a part of life in Singapore. It is an integral component of our social fabric and our workplaces. This...
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My Maid lied to MOM to get me into trouble
MOM letter of warning, click to read.Previously my maid had complained and threatened to tell lies to MOM in order to get more off days. Read the full story at:...
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