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I am a big time property developer

My unsold properties are seeing their values stagnated and not rising. My profits are not growing. This is bad. How can the govt do this to me? Nevermind if I have made millions and billions in the...

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Lim Swee Say’s flimsy excuses for uninviting Tan Cheng Bock uninvited to CNY...

Lim Swee Say gave a really lame excuse for uninviting Mr Tan Cheng Bock to the Chinese New Year Istana party. linkOn Lim’s Facebook post: “..limit the list of only ex-advisers who stood down in the...

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Warship naming – Storm in a teacup that went out of control?

Why is this PAP Government now digging into the past and jeopardizing the good relationship between Singapore and Indonesia had painstakingly built over the decades, and over a matter that even LKY...

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Cyber bullied by ‘pack of wild dogs’ – Victimized or Deserved?

The whole debate about cyber vigilante/mob justice is now starting to get a little tiring.Anton Casey and now Honda Civic Beng (HCB) are being paraded around and portrayed as victims. Poster children...

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Swiss Vote to Curb Immigration in Referendum

Switzerland voted in favor of new immigration curbs, risking a backlash from the European Union and thwarting the ability of companies to hire top talent abroad.The measure, which requires the...

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Why is there so much hatred of the elites?

Not too long ago a Briton named Anton Casey sparked off a nationwide outrage because he mocked "poor people" who took public transformation. The public fury that ensued was totally understandable...

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What should Singapore be learning from Switzerland?

In October 2013, a seminar was held by the Institute of Policy Studies and Avenir Suisse - Singapore and Switzerland: Learning from each other. While not all models and systems of running the...

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Top Indian university students are brilliant

“Students in the top universities of India are brilliant. India is a world leader in many areas particularly in low-cost engineering. We have to learn a lot from India,” said Peter YH Pang, assistant...

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Usman Harun – A call for wise leadership

Chan Chun Sing said that this issue required the presence of wise leadership, for more dialogue to prevent the fanning of a flame, to prevent creating an external issue to divert domestic problems. And...

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Lawrence Khong is out of Line

Issues like HPB's homosexuality FAQ is usually one that I have no strong opinion about. Indeed, I have no strong opinion about homosexuality as a topic in itself. While personally, I support the status...

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PA doing survey before next GE to find out who is unhappy with the PAP

<above pic: click to read the enlarged letter>Dear The Real Singapore,Would like to share this info with readers here.This evening (4 Feb), about 9.00p.m. a ‘surveyor’ claiming to be appointed by...

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10 Things You Need To Know About Our "Foreign Talents"

<Pic credit: Demoncratic Singapore>Ten things you need to know about our foreign talents:-1. According to HSBC Expat Explorer 2010, 45% of them earn over $250,000 per annum making them the...

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TODAY’s misleading headlines and report on “rioter”

This is the TODAY report on 11 February 2014, on the case of Indian construction worker Chinnappa Vijayaragunatha Poopathi  who has been sentenced to 15 weeks in jail for failing to disperse during the...

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An Exercise In Brinkmanship

It was a cinch for Lim Swee Say to uninvite Tan Cheng Bock, since both of them have roots from the same political camp. Tan may have ruffled a few feathers by going public with the insult on social...

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How the PAP's incompetence in housing is screwing our lives

As the PAP starts with their propaganda campaign on how they care for their citizens, I have decided to write a series on how their policies have screwed our lives. My first piece will be on a...

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Singapore lost its chance for reform in 1988

Sometimes looking back at the General Election of 1988, I feel that Singapore had lost a great opportunity to execute democratic reforms and change.The 1980s will be best remembered as the decade when...

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A Letter to any Christian Who Would Read It: The HPB Furore and Us

The "Christian response" to the Health Promotion Board's FAQ was disappointing from the point of view of seeking Christlikeness, at least as I see it. I would like to share some thoughts on the matter...

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Gross Domestic Problems

To author Lorenzo Fioramonti, GDP stands for Gross Domestic Problem, not the Gross Domestic Product as we know it.His small book, only 200 pages long, traces the history of GDP, discusses how its...

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PM Lee unfriending SBY on Facebook

From ‘Singapore PM Lee unfriends Yudhoyono? Indonesian media duped by spoof’, 12 Feb 2014, article by Zakir Hussein, STWHEN a satirical website weighs in on a serious bilateral dispute with the...

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Limpeh is Foreign Talent: The internet is not your enemy!

Given the amount of debate my last two posts have generated, I will do a follow up on the issue of internet safety. In this piece, I will be giving you some guidelines when it comes to using social...

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