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HDB Loses Billions But Splurges Taxpayers Money on Dinner and Dance Events at...
One of my friend said that if you want to know if the organisation can pay their staff well with fat bonuses, all you have to do is to take a look at their annual Dinner and Dance.The more extravagant...
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The Flaws in the Education System is not Because of Parents' Mindsets!
I refer to the report by Janice Heng and Andrea Ong, in The Straits Times this morning (22, Aug) entitled ”Parents’ mindset key to education change: Heng” as per the government feedback Reach held last...
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Of PAP's hidden messages and half-truths
PM Lee said to an audience of young adults gathered to discuss his National Day Rally speech on the reason why the government may have to adopt hard stands : "If I'm discussing whether to raise taxes...
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A Deluded Singaporean: PM Lee Needs to Resign
Dear PM Lee,Gardens at the Airport. Medishield Life. “Affordable” HDB. Education “changes”. Each sillier than how you look in pink, and it all boils down to one trait of yours: Misplaced Priorities....
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Disgusting 'victim blaming' mentality among Singaporeans
Picture: 2 recent cases of girls dressing 'scantily' in public that received many comments on what they 'deserved'.I originally wanted to write a social commentary on how many differing views...
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Managing the people’s life savings
HDB prices are affordable based how the ability of the buyers to pay. Now the affordability is a couple’s monthly CPF contributions for the next 25 years. This means that whatever that goes into the...
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Public transport - SMRT to become Seatless Mass Rapid Transit?
Public transport commuters should brace themselves for more overcrowding. This is because the government has been listening to Singaporeans with lip-serviced actions. It has refused to acknowledge the...
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Govt needed NatCon + survey to find these things out?
The door-to-door survey of 4,000 Singaporeans was conducted by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) between November last year and February. It was carried out to validate the issues brought up in the...
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Understanding the Cost Of Constructing a HDB Flat
Chip Eng Seng Contractors (1988) Pte Ltd (CESC) has been building Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats since 1982. It's typical contract scope involves the design and construction of residential...
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Supporting a losing sports team is bad for your health: Study
Supporting a hopeless sports team is bad for your health because fans binge on unhealthy comfort food when their side loses, a study has found.The day after a defeat for their local side, fans consume...
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How Are Taxes Built For The Rich In Singapore?
We are told that Singapore’s “top marginal individual income tax rate is 20%“. However, what exactly is our “real overall tax rate”, and how much are Singaporeans really paying?By “real overall tax...
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HDB: PRs must dispose their HDB flats when they buy private property
During the first five years following the purchase of a flat, also known as the minimum occupation period, a flat owner cannot own, buy or invest in a private residential property (“Different rules on...
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Singapore’s miracle is no miracle
Books about Singapore usually praise its achievements or criticise its authoritarian rule. But few ever probe its widely publicized claims that it is a brilliant success that other countries should...
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Japanese woman ties herself up in order to skip work: reports
*illustrated photoA young Tokyo businesswoman tied herself up at home because she did not want to go to work, Japanese media reported Friday.The woman in her 20s was found with her hands and legs bound...
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Sinkie's socio-economic status is so Americun-like
The cartoon below is a very simple to understand explanation about the sad social-economic state of Americuh. Funny how it strikes Sinkies as a cartoon they can relate to. About almost every single...
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SAF Regular: with so many safety regulations, what's the point of serving NS?
I'm a regular in BMTC and i'm starting to wish i never signed on. Ever since mid last year, when the army suddenly imposed many new safety regulations, our training has started to become less and less...
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The Thick-skinned Prime Minister
It is interesting to read that the comical PM Lee Hsien Loong has the humility to admit that he is a thick-skinned prime minister who is “flame-proof” to cyberspace vitriols against him. But is he...
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Senior citizens feel cheated and betrayed
We are a group of senior citizens, retired and congregating in Chinatown almost daily to lament our pathetic state of existence consequent of flawed government policies.Most of us bought such studio...
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HDB should intervene in sales of coffee shops, food prices
Dear The Real Singapore,I am troubled over the parliamentary reply on the “escalating transacted prices” for Housing and Development Board (HDB) coffee shops, reported in “Coffee shop for sale, vendors...
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Heng Swee Keat and his inferior education system
The shifts in education policy announced in last Sunday’s National Day Rally (NDR) must catalyse mindset changes among parents or they will have no impact, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said last...
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