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NS for Girls: Are you serious?
Fellow Singaporeans, I urge you not to fall into the government's trap. I will make this short.The government mouthpiece recently suggested women serving National Service. let me tell you now that that...
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Minimum wage: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Announcing a wage increase for workers should be an occasion of joy for any government. But not for the PAP. When DPM Tharman disclosed that new laws would be introduced to ensure that cleaners and...
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Education funding dropped 82%?
6 independent schools’ funding cut?I refer to the article “Funding cuts for top independent schools in Singapore” (Straits Times, Feb 3).It states that “School officials did not want to disclose how...
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Minister Shan
Visa: I don’t know why I saved this or where I saved this from, but I thought I’d publish it anyway:“Recently I was invited by Peter of the One Dream initiative to dinner with Minister Shanmugam. It...
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Ramblings from a visiting Singaporean: PeeRCs
Dear The Real Singapore,I’ve been following and reading, with great interest, the story about how a PRC woman let her kid pee in the RWS food court (Link). I must say, I really do enjoy some of the...
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Anton Casey did not commit sedition
In “Didn’t Anton Casey commit sedition?” (Jan 28), Mr Steve Wang suggested that Mr Casey committed the offence of sedition by making remarks that looked down on average earners as being poor. This is...
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Why Singapore's Speak Good English Movement Should be Scrapped
If you don't know much about grammar and you are given the task of telling Singaporeans what common grammatical errors they make and how they should correct them, what would you do? The obvious thing...
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Budget 2014: the PAP is screwing our lives upside down!
The Finance Minister will be announcing the government’s annual budget in exactly 2 weeks’ time on the 17th February 2014. Under the rule of the PAP, Singaporeans have come to suffer much social and...
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Young Guns Forum – Baey: 0, Pritam: 3, Ms Chee: 2, Syafarin: 2
I refer to “Four highlights from the Young Guns forum”. link Four members from different political parties attended the forum organised by the NUS Students’ Political Association.1 WP’s Pritam Singh...
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HDB should separate type 1 and type 2 two-room flats at the application stage
Dear The Real Singapore,I am a Singaporean who has applied to the September 2013 BTO exercise under the Singles Scheme for a two-room flat.Under this product category, Type 1 and Type 2 is a different...
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Honouring JB Jeyaretnam: How one man saved another, 25 years ago
25 years ago this month, 65 year-old Ang Chye was stabbed to death at a coffeeshop at Blk 780 Yishun Ring Road. The police was unable to find any evidence except for several smudged fingerprints which...
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The perfect population size for me is 4 million
Yesterday was 3rd Feb. It was also one of the best days to go to work and from work.Why do I say that?For once, I saw many people queue up at clinics to get MCs to extend their long weekends over the...
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The attitude of our teachers impacts our children's education most
Here are some thoughts of mine after reading a couple of articles:What students remember most about teachers - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lori-gard/students_b_4422603.htmlShare this with all the...
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Grassroots leader = PAP branch Chairman?
I refer to the articles “Grassroots leader hits back at WP MP’s claims” and CNY fair dispute: Town council ‘not picking fight’” (Straits Times, Feb 4).It states that “A grassroots leader in Aljunied...
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Times have changed, NS status quo must go
Male Singaporeans are required to serve full time National Service (NS) for 2 years. This is followed by another 10 “work years” up to the age of 40/50 depending on one’s rank. In today’s harsh...
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HOW INEQUALITY HOLLOWS OUT THE SOUL
"One, looking at the 50 American states, discovered that after taking account of age, income and educational differences, depression was more common in states with greater income inequality." (Think...
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An alternate Government or an alternate voice?
What are the chances of an alternate Government taking over in the next election? Nil, if the current disparate opposition parties carry on with their present agenda. All we can hope for is there will...
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Political reason why our government allows foreigners to overtake us?
I seldom felt so enraged when I received emails from our readers until I received one from Francis the other day.Francis wrote how he was ousted from his company – a global Fortune 500 conglomerate, by...
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Our defence budget is way too high, with harm to our lives!
The following table shows the armed forces in the ASEAN countries. We probably need to maintain our active personnel (including conscripts) at the current level of 71,000 to match the neighboring...
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Can the Government ensure HDB flats keep their value over time?
There have been recent reports on the falling prices of Housing Board resale flats (“First HDB resale price dip since 2005″, Jan 25; and “Resale flat prices not yet at ‘steady state’”; last Sunday)The...
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