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What the PAP has done well
I know I am going to be abused for writing this but I am going to do it anyway.For more than 2 months we haven't seen rain. During this period as we watched the plants wither and temperature soar, it...
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A new dream, not owning a home
Nina Brown lost her townhouse to foreclosure due to recession. That was not the only house she lost, but another three. She now lives in a rented home. The American Dream of home ownership is...
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GST is bad for middle-class S’poreans & the economy
There is still a large group of people who thinks that the Goods & Services Tax (GST) is good for Singapore, as it allows income tax to be reduced to attract businesses to set up in Singapore and...
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PAP supporters make me cringe, this is unSingaporean
What are the differences between the Australian and Singaporean?Well for one thing, the Australians are un-subservient and when they post their comments on the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Facebook,...
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Singapore is not ready for the University of Hard Knocks
In Singapore, leaders who shine academically are finding it tough coping with real life crisis.THE Little India Inquiry has produced an uncomplimentary account of how scholar leaders could fare in a...
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PAP is still the best party to rule Singapore!
I read a number of anti-government websites. I was appalled by many of their anti-government comments and accusations. It should be interesting to know who were those commentators. Opposition...
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GST is bad for middle-class Singaporeans & the economy
There is still a large group of people who thinks that the Goods & Services Tax (GST) is good for Singapore, as it allows income tax to be reduced to attract businesses to set up in Singapore and...
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What Am I Really Discriminating Against?
For someone who can probably write about anything and everything, I have not written for close to a month. I was not having a writer’s block of sorts. Neither was I devoid of ideas. So, you may ask,...
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Pope’s approach versus that of PAP
When I read this recentlyIn a long interview with a fellow Jesuit, now issued worldwide in book form, Pope Francis tellingly uses the metaphor of his Church as a field hospital.“The thing the Church...
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Some thoughts on scholarships for foreigners
Offering Scholarships to foreigners are rather pointless in Singapore's contextAnyway - so what's the deal behind the freebie scholarships to foreign students? It seems a great idea to attract foreign...
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The real hard truth: No money, no admission!
This is the real truth, my 95yrs old mum was at TTSH last Saturday at noon A&E ward for chest pain. She had gone through a series of Blood Test, ECG, X-Ray that ended at 10pm and Doctor suspected...
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Unemployed PMETs neglected by Budget 2014
Unemployed PMETs – The vulnerable group neglected by Budget 2014In fact, the Government Budgets in the past two or three years have been a series of subsidies and financial support programs to help out...
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Dear The Real Singapore, I live in Joo Chiat and I love the prostitutes
Dear The Real Singapore, I am a true-blue Joo Chiat resident. And I have to admit that I love the ‘sleaze’. I am 42 this year, and for the past three decades, I have been living in Joo Chiat. Every...
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Singapore's Massive Compassion Deficit
Thanks to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world knows we are the most expensive city in the world. Now the BBCNewsmagazine is helping to broadcast that Singapore has a massive compassion...
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Improving The Welfare Of Low-Wage Workers In Singapore
Crafting labor policies for low-skilled foreign workers is challenging. Moral and economic imperatives don’t necessarily coincide. These workers, who are neither enfranchised citizens nor fully...
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Warning: Foreigner enclaves forming in private estates
<above pic: Melville Park Condo>Due to our government Finance Ministry biased policies in encouraging Indian nationals to immigrate here, the following condo have been conquered by them (I only...
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6.9m not the target, only for planning
This is true. The 6.9m population for 2030 is only a part of the planning process. Grace Fu announced in Parliament that population growth for 2013 was 80,000 – 30k from newborns, 20k from new citizens...
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No, Lee Hsien Loong, You Be Kinder
The Singapore Prime Minister (for now), Lee Hsien Loong, wrote on his Facebook that Singaporeans should “be kinder and more gracious to one another“. This was in response to an article in the BBC which...
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Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 12:01 AM ESTUPDATED: Monday, March 17, 2014 - 9:00 AM ESTTypo was made during the conversion of UTC times. Meeting of SIA68 and MH320 occurred at 18:00UTC - 18:15UTC. MH320...
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The Addiction of Gaming: Are you able to quit?
The most common types of addiction range from drugs, alcohol, smoking to gambling and sex. The ones I mentioned are just a few of the long list of types of addictions, and more commonly talked about....
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