The Singapore Daily

Need for Speed
- Gintai: Speeding Ferrari crash & Minister Shanmugam’s kind empathy
- Inflation, Investing and Everything: Singapore Bugis Ferrari crash speed estimate [Thanks Vincent]
- All Things Singapore: Of that Ferrari and the so-called anti-foreigners sentiment
- The Gigamole Diaries: The Ferrari accident and illegal street racing in Singapore
- Prata Politics: Shhh Are Some Singaporens…Stupid?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: A tragic accident evokes intense emotions…
- Daily Breaks: Road Rage: Stupid Men Who Buy Toys They Can’t Control [Thanks Annabel]
- Straits Times: Respect S’pore laws: Chinese Embassy
- BBC (Chinese): 法拉利车祸和新加坡人的排外情绪

Hougang By-Election
- Publichouse: 2 names emerge from the scorching sun
- TOC: Hougang by-election: Nomination Day and Workers’ Party Press Conference
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Hougang Bye-Election: The sideshow
- Bertha Harian: Poh Boh Hoh!
- five stars and a moon: Curious debate on timing of by-election
- Political Writings: BE vs GE
- The Blue Sweater: Gatecrashers
- Everything Also Complain: Zeng Guoyuan’s bird abusing the police
- Feed Me To the Fish: What You Will Not See On Local TV on Nomination Day in Hougang 16 May 2012
- Yahoo: ‘No split within Worker’s Party’: Low Thia Khiang

Daily Disclosure
- New Nation: Countries with lower wages might overtake us if we’re not careful: PM Lee
- New Asia Republic: Disproving ‘minority representation rule’ in GRCs mathematically
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Online interview on bringing in 20,000 new citizens/year to address failing birth rate
- Today: Tariff not falling in tandem with decrease in fuel price [Thanks Adrian]

Uniquely Singapore
- The Long and Winding Road: The mosque at the 778.25 km marker

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: Russell Peters: ‘Sometimes the Truth Hurts’

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May 17th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Hougang By-Election
- Sgpolitics.net: WP refutes allegations of racism from ex-member who quit over failure to get cadreship
- New Asia Republic: The Poh Lee Guan issue and Murphy’s Law
- FreshGrads: Hougang By-Elections
- TOC: Desmond Choo & Png Eng Huat Factsheet
- Political Writings: Danger Ahead!
- Where Bears Roam Free: Twists and turns in Hougang by election
- 否极泰来 Piji Tailai: Empowered Ignorance? From SMRT to Hougang
- Goh Meng Seng: Hougang By-Eelection & Impact of Sajeeev & Dr Poh III

Housing
- Gintai: Is there a way to stop our spiraling HDB prices?

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- Publichouse: Build a foundation upon which truth can stand
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Two examples of how ST covers FTs

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Man of Leisure: Taking Care Of Ourselves First
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: What Feeds And What Stunts Creativity
- The Long and Winding Road: Bananas may be allowed to grow on State Land after all
- SG Hard Truth: Community gardening at Clementi Ave 4: going for a win-win outcome
- Prata Politics: Akan Datang HDB Farms Everywhere!
- Yahoo: Marina Bay is Singapore’s hub of prosperity: fengshui experts

A Vote for Change
- Desparatebeep: A Case for Getting Out
- Jentrified Citizen: Majority of Singaporeans will not be directly affected by inflation? Who should we believe?
- Singapore Democrats: Welfarism is bad but good

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: SG Immigration part 3: SG vs Luxembourg & Monaco
- flâneurose: The hidden consequences of massive immigration
- Yahoo: Are Singaporeans becoming anti-foreigner?

Need for Speed
- New Nation: Supercar owners getting more dirty looks
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Ferrari Tragedy: Of Speeding To Conclusions
- Everything Also Complain: Killer Ferraris on congested roads
- Only William: FATAL ACCIDENT!!! Doesn’t mean you can speed if you owned a Ferrari 599 GTO!!!
- 今天天气多云… Today’s Mostly Cloudy: PRC Ferrari beat-red-light accident: What they say and what we saw

Internet Security Act
- Publichouse: Teo Soh Lung – 25 years since Operation Spectrum

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May 16th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Hougang By-Election
- Words of The Cze: Running
- Publichouse: Hougang local?
- The Blue Sweater: War by Proxy: The Hougang By-Election
- New Asia Republic: Previewing Battleground Hougang
- life one degree north, one-o-thre degrees east: What’s at stake in the Hougang by-election
- My Singapore News: Sajeev Kamalasanan’s resignation from WP
- Where Bears Roam Free: Free legal clinic at Hougang is a political gimmick
- Today: Elections Dept issues 4 Political Donation Certificates

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- Think For Me, Singapore: The intergrity of reporting
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Bloggers, poetic license and regulating Singapore’s social media
- Prata Politics: Every Day Party vs Temasek Times – What Next?
- Article 14: Did Subhas Anandan really say that?

Educate Our Youth
- The Kent Ridge Common: Yale’s Ng E-Ching: The Need for Cultural Translation

Defending OUR Lion City
- Senang Diri: Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) calls for training halt: Driving home that training safety message

Daily Disclosure
- Loh and Behold: Stingy People will Always be Poor
- Sgpolitics.net: A shallow article by Mr Fredrik Haren
- Singapore Notes: Not Your Typical Case Of NIMB
- POSKOD.sg: Longkang Encounters
- Today: Singapore’s stressed singles [Thanks Adrian]

377a
- Reflections and Ruminations: Life rightly understood is not about rights
- Publichouse: Help! My son is…

A Vote for Change
- TOC: In Focus: Eric Tan

Infoblogamus
- Yahoo: ComfortDelGro starts donation drive for family of cabby in Ferrari crash
- Co.Exist: Singapore Is On Its Way To Becoming An Iconic Smart City

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May 15th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Hougang By-Election
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A much- diffident PAP in Hougang by-election
- Sylvia Lim: Hougang
- Publichouse: Misleading reports by Straits Times and Today
- New Asia Republic: Workers’ Party, ever heard of common ruin?
- Gintai: Hougang By Election: Is ‘shall’ the same as ‘must?’
- Singapore Notes: Don’t Insult Hougang
- Article 14: Hougang by-election case may be withdrawn from the Court
- Blogging for Myself: Hougang By-Election: Where are the leaders?
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜: The curiously ‘coincidental’ case of Desmond Choo

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Big Talk Singapore (大话新加坡): What’s the lesson in the SMRT breakdown ?
- Zit Seng’s Superwall: Our SMRT Drama Unfolds
- The Gigamole Diaries: The SMRT monster-under-the-bed is emerging……
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SMRT: “Cowboys” were right

Housing
- Remember Singapore: From Villages to Flats (Part 2) – Public Housing in Singapore
- PropertyGuru: Foreign home buying plunges 78%
- Ravi Philemon: Lack of appropriate housing and space another reason for recent fires

Educate Our Youth
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Buay Song? Make police report lah
- The Kent Ridge Common: Open letter re: “Singapore Uncensored and Censorship”
- Sgpolitics.net: Make rules and rentals “attractive and honourable” first

CPF
- Mostly Economics: Temasek and Singapore Puzzle – Is it another Madoff crisis in making?
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Risky Systems, Dire Consequences…

A Vote for Change
- TOC: Politics not your cup of Starbucks?
- Yawningbread: Rights and leverage

We are against capital punishment
- The Huffington Post: The Mandatory Death Penalty: A Blinkered Policy

Facebook Co-Founder, now a Singaporean?
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: SG immigration part 2: Eduardo Saverin
- DKSG: Eduardo Saverin is now a Singapore citizen
- Everything Also Complain: Eduardo Saverin likes Chilli crab
- Wall Street Journal: Facebook Co-Founder: America is OK. It’s the Rules That Are a Pain.

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Sojourn: Heartland Heartache
- Singapore 2B: Why a US columnist is rooting for Singapore

Internal Security Act
- Unravelling 1987: The Filipino Connection
- Yawningbread: We are all marxists

Infoblogamus
- POSKOD.sg: FOTO-FOTO: Bedok Bus Interchange

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May 14th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Defending OUR Lion City
- Senang Diri: Singapore Armed Forces versus cynics and critics in the halcyon days of peace

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- Everyday Party: BREAKING NEWS: CLARIFICATION ON THE CHARGES MADE BY THE TEMASEK TIMES

Mother’s Day!
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Celebrating Mother’s Day: Blotch Studios’ 吗 “Mother”

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: The SMRT debacle continues…
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SMRT mgt failures: What does it say abt SAF?

Hougang By-Elections
- Simply Gab: THOR – The HOugang Rematch
- Where Bears Roam Free: Hougang by Election – it’s the economy, dummy!
- Publichouse: WP press conference – a background look
- Sgpolitics.net: Hougang BE: On the drumbeat to the hustings
- TOC: Hougang by-election: An occasion for opposition unity
- Singapore Notes: Weighing In For The Big Fight
- Musings From the Lion City: Not A Sure Thing
- Ministry of Love and Justice: Hougang By-Election 2012.
- Jentrified Citizen: All Eyes on Hougang By-election
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore’s Ruling Party Braces for By-Election Test
- MrBrown.com: PAP is Always Here for You
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Look, who is throwing stones…
- Five Stars and a moon: Who is Desmond Choo and why vote for him?

Housing
- Ravi Philemon: A Kind Act
- Yahoo: Are we Singa-poor’?

Daily Disclosure
- visakan veerasamy.: Refining my political stance: Why I no longer identify as Anti-PAP
- Ray of Light: Helping the lonely and depressed seniors to lead more meaningful lives.
- Furry Brown Dog: What explains Singapore’s persistently low crime rate?

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Whistle blower: “Only one out of twenty who completed WDA-funded logistics course managed to get an internship attachment!”

Infoblogamus
- Gintai: 80 year old barber at Kelantan Lane
- (Final Year Project by NTU students): The Malay Underclass

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May 11th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Hougang By-Elections
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- Article 14: Hougang by-election: 26 May 2012
- Where Bears Roam Free: Hougang by Election – WP should win comfortably
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Let The Aunties Decide
- Singapore Public Law: Low Thia Khiang as a Candidate for By-election in Hougang?
- Food Fuels Me To Talk: Hougang: bye-bye WP or bye-bye again PAP?
- Publichouse: WP’s integrity vs PAP’s policies
- Ti amo: Politics Matters
- Singapore Notes: Haste Makes Waste
- Prata Politics: The Boring By-Election is (Finally) Here
- Sgpolitics.net: Hougang by-election called
- Mohammad Nizam Abdul Kadir: Nicole Seah Vs PAP (2-corner fight) at Hougang SMC By-Election
- Yahoo: PAP chooses Desmond Choo as Hougang by-election candidate
- Today: SDP, NSP not contesting in by-election
- Mrbrown.com: Possible Interpretations of Approved Election Symbols for Hougang By-Election
- Lee Hsien Loong: Statement by PM Lee on By-Election for Hougang Constituency

Educate Our Youth
- BlinkyMummy: Unrealistic Standards? Who’s being unrealistic?

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- Andrew Loh: Don’t let your blood boil over when reading Internet postings, ok?

Daily Disclosure
- TOC: Redundancy Share for PMETs at a 13year high
- Today: How rising COE prices can cause more breakdowns [Thanks Adrian]

Singapore Sports Scene
- Today: A sporting pioneer

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May 10th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Educate Our Youth
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Are we overdoing elitism in our education system?
- Empty Vessel: It’s a strong foundation that counts
- The Singapore Globalist: A Generation Scared by Maxine Chen

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Q&A: does Singapore need 30,000 new migrants a year?

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: DPM Teo & GG (or WP): gentle reminders for next week
- Think For Me, Singapore: Missing the forest for the trees (Part 3)
- Yahoo: ‘Becoming an opposition MP like being in the deep end’

GE 2011 – 1 Year Later…
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: What changed?

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Tharman has a point

Shock Therapy for Wages
- ST: Let higher progressive tax rates pay for it

Infoblogamus
- Singapore Public Law: Bukit Brown Cemetery: You Can Sue, but You Won’t Win

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May 9th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

GE 2011 – 1 Year Later…
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: A year of greater engagement
- Yahoo: GE 2011: One year later
- Singapore In General: Engagement – the new game in town

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Yawningbread: In a market economy, wages aren’t determined by wishful thinking

Housing
- TOC: S’porean loses HDB after foreign wife runs away

Educate Our Youth
- A Singaporean Says: Age of boys going into secondary school

A Vote for Change
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Not You Too Foo! Pinjam also can!
- New Asia Republic: 淡滨尼嗅出“三角战”烟硝味
- TOC: The WP – being effective, in and out of Parliament

Daily Disclosure
- New Asia Republic: Adjusting to aging population at the workplace
- Blogging for Myself: IPS – The Population Conundrum
- mrbrown.com: A little light at the end of a very long tunnel
- Singapore Notes: Singapore’s Achilles Heel

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May 8th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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GE 2011 – 1 Year Later…
- Publichouse: Engagement – the new game in town
- Article 14: GE 2011 & the New Normal: 1 year on
- Prata Politics: One Year After GE 2011, So What?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections, One Year On: Craving For More Policy Discourse
- Yawningbread: GE2011 – one year on
- TOC: The PAP – facing its new mandate
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: 7 first-term MPs speak about their first year in politics

A Vote for Change
- Dr Derek da Cunha: The next GE could prove challenging for the opposition
- Singapore In General: Tan Jee Say: PAP has become incompetent
- Political Writings: PAP in the Bathtub
- Feed Me To The Fish: Did He Pay With His Heart?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Kent Ridge Common: Friction in the Singapore Society – on the Local-Foreign Divide
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Xenophobia: London vs Singapore
- Where Bears Roam Free: Immigration and Integration – S’pore and France are nothing alike
- The Blue Sweater: Defining Home
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Tommy Koh on healthcare and income inequality…
- Zaobao: 两头通吃还是两头不到岸 看永久居民的困境和权利

Educate OUR Youth
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Capacity Exceeded – Bursting
- Where Bears Roam Free: AWARE still pushing their brand of unwholesome Sex Ed programme

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Desparatebeep: A Story of Wages
- Anything with Edgar: Prof. Lim, have you lost your marbles?
- Sunflower Garden: Threading between Cheap Labour and Current Economy
- Stephanie Chok: My Wife’s Life as a Cleaner (From The New Paper’s ‘Your View’ section, 4 May 2012)

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- New Nation: War on error: How the Internet resolves its disputes

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SMRT: Quiet re-nationalisation

Healthcare
- Tan Kin Lian: My thoughts on Medishield
- TOC: TB Resurgence and Screening of Foreign Workers In Singapore

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe in 2nd Chances: From Singapore to Sabah: The Plantation House

Daily Disclosure
- Lim Jialiang: Megachurches and Christianity: Why the Appeal? (Part 1)
- Singapore Rebel: Speak truth unto power: Political exile Tan Wah Piow issues call for broad-based pro-democracy coalition
- Unravelling 1987: The Leading Men: Tan Wah Piow and Vincent Chen
- The Washington Post: What Singapore can teach us [Thanks Lilian]

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May 7th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Housing
- Measured musings: HDB four-room flat sizes, 1996 to 2011
- Singapore Notes: Smaller Sizes, Bigger Lies
- Sgpolitics.net: Who’s telling the truth about HDB flat sizes?

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Worker’s Party’s idea on transport comes to the fore….
- A Singaporean In Australia: Of Train and Bus: The Exploited Singapore Worker
- Publichouse: SMRT’s Mr Quah hits it right on its head

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- UBB: Of cleaning windows and the Internet Code of Conduct
- TOC: Media freedom – a bid for trust in policy making

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Personalised Employment Pass (PEP) Holders Can Hold Multiple Jobs!

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: “You Don’t Need To Be Awesome At Hwa Chong”: When Failure Means A Lot More
- The Kent Ridge Common: Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Amnesty International imposing their brand of human rights

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore in General: Lies and misrepresentation in Green Campaign:Use of Plastic Bags

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May 4th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Housing
- Happenings in SG: My views on it: HDB Prices: Shocking!!
- Too Many Thoughts: My views on it: HDB 5-room flat sizes, 1974-2016

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Just a thought: Economists; argumentative and combative
- Padaly: Shock Therapy Is ‘Dangerous!’

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining: Xenophobia isn’t about politics, it is OUR CONSCIENCE!
- THE TEMASEK TIMES: Singaporean expat writes to PM Lee: When I return to Singapore, I felt I am in China

Daily Disclosure
- a2ed.com: singaporedaily censors a2ed again? – beware the OLC
- angmohlian: Seen and Heard #2
- TOC: Amnesty International: Singapore should join global trend and establish a moratorium on executions
- TOC: “Love Singapore, Our Home”?

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
- At Peace With Freedom: Media freedom – what we want to achieve

Educate Our Youth
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Tougher, Cleverer, Faster

Oh My God
- Yawning Bread: Megachurches and the cultural applications of religion

Uniquely Singapore
- Wild Shores of Singapore: 4-9 May: Traditional Wayang at Pulau Ubin with free ferry ride

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May 3rd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Strangers in a Strange Land
- At Peace With Freedom: Foreigner problem – inside out
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Integrating FTs: It’s our problem now cont’d
- SG-Quitters: The Last of the Native Singaporeans.

A Vote for Change
- TOC: James Gomez: PAP is in policy inertia
- TOC: In focus: Vincent Wijeysingha
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The SDP May Day Rally: Four Afterthoughts
- Where Bears Roam Free: SDP May Day Message mimics PAP’s style – repeat old grandma story

Hougang By-Elections
- Shih Tung’s WordPress Blog: Electoral Procedure: Sampling checks in the 2011 Presidential Election

Daily Disclosure
- Simply Gab: Impact of Bersih 3.0
- The Pattern Trader: May Day Food For Thought – 1 May, 2012
- funny little world: May Day in Singapore
- Blogging for Myself: PM: Labour Day and missing the point totally
- TW and Jo’s Excellent Adventure: What We Labour For
- Gintai: Tissue Tissue! 3 for $1 only!

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Yawningbread: Transport landscape reflects Singapore’s income gap and rightwing ideology
- InSing: Some buy cars in M’sia to beat COE prices

Underaged Services
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Sex with a minor: Some more equal than others?

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
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- Singapore Notes: Conduct Unbecoming

Housing
- Reflections on Change: HDB Resale Flats — Valuation and Cash-Over-Valuation

Uniquely Singapore
- Remember Singapore: Rediffusion And Its Glorious 63 Years
- Ubin: Noordin Beach

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May 2nd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
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- Beyond The Emotive: Much Ado about Nothing
- Words of the Cze: Not Offside
- Article 14: The New Normal: Celebrating a New Media victory (or ‘Why We don’t need your COC’)
- Every Day Party FB: PROPOSED ONLINE CODE OF CONDUCT ONLY FOR THE TEMASEK TIMES

Educate Our Youth
- Empty Vessel: Crippling Learning With Unrealistic Standards

A Vote for Change
- TOC: Chee Soon Juan: We do not have political rights
- TOC: SDP’s Dr Juwita Rahmat speaks about her political journey
- Sgpolitics.net: The meaning of May Day lost in Singapore

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Actually: Being Kind (& Readers’ Stories about Workplace Bullying)
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Today we celebrate Labour Day but what is there for labour to celebrate?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Alex Har’s FB: PRC new citizen asks Singaporeans to stop complaining: We are very happy with the PAP govt!

Infoblogamus
- Just another Entrepreneur Blog: Special Employment Credit

Uniquely Singapore
- Remember Singapore: Headlines that shook Singapore (since 1955)
- DKSG: Goodbye Rediffusion

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May 1st, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Internet Code of Conduct – See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Write No Evil
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- Andrew Loh: Don’t like the mainstream media? Support the alternative then
- Publichouse: Social media a function of democratic evolution: Pritam Singh
- Singapore Recalcitrant: An Ominous Internet Omen
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Integrating FTs: It’s our problem now/ News management
- New Nation: The Straits Times and the language of a jilted lover
- New Asia Republic: Does Society need protection from online free speech?
- Sgpolitics.net: What is the point of an internet “Code of Conduct”?
- funny little world: People are angry about control? It’s okay, we’ll solve it with EVEN MORE CONTROL!
- Jentrified Citizen: Don’t See, Don’t Hear, Don’t Speak. And now Don’t Write?
- Every Cloud has a Silver Lining: The Temasek Review Caught Red-Handed ‘Smearing’ Andrew Loh [Thanks Cheng]
- Everyday Party FB: Breaking NEWS: Temasek Times Guilty Of Complete Plagiarism!
- Today: Free expression online – up to a point

A Vote for Change
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Dr. Chee Soon Juan And The Oslo Freedom Forum: The View From The Ground?
- Think For Me, Singapore: Missing the forest for the trees (Part 2)
- Yawningbread: The day that Singaporeans take to the streets

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: When aliens got too many
- Singapore Notes: Offensive Comments
- Haus of yuene: A couple of thoughts on immigration and integration

Daily Disclosure
- The Pattern Trader: Weekend Food For Thought – 28 April, 2012
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Speak Mandarin Campaign Successful Meh?
- Loh and Behold: Sink the Titanic!
- Where Bears Roam Free: Lies and misrepresentation in Green Campaign

Singapore’s US$4 billion loan to IMF
- Article 14: The Constitutionality of an unauthorised loan: A blast from the past
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Royal Elephant Shoots Part 2

Shock Therapy for Wages
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – Wage “Shock Therapy”

Defending OUR Lion City
- department of crappy engineering: one thing we lack in total defence

Housing
- Haus of yuene: 80/710 000 000
- If Only Singapoeans Stopped to Think: Nobody can tell you the fair value of Sky Habitat

Underaged Services
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Plight of 60 Immoral Men Part 2…

Hougang By-election
- In My Own Words: Exploring the Extent of Executive Discretion

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April 30th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Housing
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Housing issue: A short reply to Minister Tan Chuan Jin who replied to Blogger Gintai aka Langgar
- Ravi Philemon: Chuan-Jin, there’ll always be inequities

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Can Meritocracy and Equality co-exist?

Daily Disclosure
- Simply Gab: Freedom of Assembly
- Where Bears Roam Free: Just allow Chee Soon Juan to attend Oslo Freedom Forum and be done with it
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Q&A: Transgender Miss Singapore Universe
- Yawningbread: A window to the importance of design

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: TOC Editorial: Population Paper has the fundamentals wrong
- Publichouse: SMRT’s Mr Quah hits it right on its head
- Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining: Understanding why Xenophobia is a DISEASE in our society. [Thanks Lilian]

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Yaacob’s “Three steps” to Heaven”: Analysing Steps 1 & 2
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Censorship cuts both ways
- Siew Kum Hong: Show us you mean business
- Publichouse: Forget code of ethics, free up mainstream media

Defending OUR Lion City
- The Blue Sweater: Two Years of Our Time (and More): Some Thoughts on Military Attitudes, Education and Organization

A Vote for Change
- Sgpolitics.net: Insufficient care given to the elderly and chronically ill in Singapore
- Singapore Alternatives: Has PAP really changed…for the better or worse?

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April 27th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Educate Our Youth
- Article 14: Pri 1, PR, proximity and the need for principles in policy making
- guanyinmiao’s musings: School-Based Community Service In Singapore: Service-Learning (Part Three)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Musings From the Lion City: Unwinnable Argument
- Singapore Notes: Kicking Out The Chaff

Daily Disclosure
- Loh and Behold: The End is Nigh but Singapore’s Got Talons
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Orchard Road Expensive Meh?
- visakan veerasamy: Animal Farm and National Education
- Temasek Times: Is the Minimum Wage a terrible idea?

377a
- Where Bears Roam Free: Transgender’s Miss Universe controversy and gender deconstruction
- Yahoo: Would you accept a transgender as Miss Singapore Universe?

Housing
- Tan Chuan-Jin: Providing a House…Building a Home

Stuff
- CNN: The danger of Twitter, Facebook politics
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April 26th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

(Cartoon Credit: The Cartoon Press )

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: The ugly truth about TFR and foreign influx….
- Reflections on Change: What Total Fertility Rate Means [Thanks James]
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: The issue of Population, and gazing into a crystal ball
- SG Entrepreneurs: Wild Honey restaurant slammed for favoring foreigners, and what we can learn from it
- A Singaporean In Australia: Wei Siang’s Letter

Underaged Services
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Sex & the State
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – Underage Prostitution

Defending OUR Lion City
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: : Random Discourse – NSF Deaths and Online Comments
- Aussie Pete: Australia – Singapore Remembers and Thanks You… Lest We Forget!
- TOC: Stop killing our Singapore sons

“It is heavily subsidised, making it very affordable for citizens.” — Housing and Development Board
- Publichouse: ST article on LUP “misleading”, says Chiam

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- New Asia Republic: Don’t compromise academic freedom in cyberspace

377a
- PinkDot: PinkDot FAQ for Our Foreign Friends!
- Publichouse: Transgender pageant hopes to stamp out discrimination

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- The Gigamole Diaries: The bathtub effect? A Singapore problem.

Uniquely Singapore
- Second Shot: A Short History of Pasir Panjang Park
- Joy Loh: Fort Canning Park – Forbidden Hill
- OMY: A Peek into Rediffusion (丽的呼声)’s Studios @ Harper Road

Stuff
- Today: To thrive, euro nations must cut welfare state

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April 25th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Daily Disclosure
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Our income gap reflects the power distribution in our society………
- Publichouse: Ambassador’s smug take on illiberal democracy
- Sgpolitics.net: A Singaporean feels priced out
- TOC: Worsening income inequality in Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Anything & Whatever: Boycott F&B outlets that hire more than 80% foreigners ?
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Nationwide Boycott of F & B Outlets That Hire More Than 80% of Foreigners in Month of May
- Today: The uneasy expats

A Vote for Change
- Singapore 2025: A Most Important Parliamentary Question

Defending OUR Lion City
- Senang Diri: When a member of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) dies in service
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Zheng Huiting and the death of a soldier

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- Gintai: EX-CEO SMRT Farewell Party

Singapore Sports Scene
- Where Bears Roam Free: Foreign Talent R Avramovic talks big, but it is local V Sundram who delivers

Pinky PM Lee on Facebook!
- Unbranded Bread n butter: 10 reasons why PM should not be on FB

Infoblogamus
- Tan Kin Lian: Bad sales practice of bank
- The Oprah Blog: Singapore’s Secret to Aging Well?
- Yahoo: Transgenders can compete in Miss Singapore Universe 2013: promoter
- POSKOD.SG: In a Soldier’s Boots

April 24th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

(Cartoon Credit: The Sketch Times )

Pinky PM Lee on Facebook!
- Singapore Life & Times: Face it, PM
- Publichouse: Live in my 3-room flat: Martyn See to PM Lee

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- ALVINOLOGY: Transports Woes in Singapore
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Beyond The Yellow Line
- Andrew Loh: Pity Mr Lui but he deserves some credit

Defending OUR Lion City
- Yongcong Choy’s FB: In Polite and Vehement Objection to ‘Singaporeans Too Weak? LOL’ – For all our NSFs/NSmen past, present, future.
- BlinkyMummy: NS for Female Singaporeans (Fiction la! Fiction! Dun Panic!)
- The Blue Sweater: Two Years of Our Time (and More): Pain and Passion
- New Asia Republic: The death of Pte Lee Rui Feng in perspective

Underaged Services
- Holly Jean: The Teenage Prostitute Hoohah
- Loh and Behold: Shame that Slut!
- Everything Also Complain: Miss XXX who is under 18 years of age
- Where Bears Roam Free: Underage prostitution scandal – offenders should admit guilt, plead leniency
- Vicky’s Writings: How to talk to your kids abour sex

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Gintai: Is this my Singapore? My home and my country?

Educate Our Youth
- Metacog: The Curious Case of Alvin Wang’s NUS Appeal [Thanks Alex]
- guanyinmiao’s musings: School-Based Community Service In Singapore: The Community Involvement Programme (Part Two)
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Alvin Wang: why do you want a degree?

Daily Disclosure
- Article 14: That US 4 billion to the IMF: Is it unconstitutional?
- Kidon’s Den: The Minimum Wage is a Terrible Idea
- Publichouse: Ambassador’s smug take on illiberal democracy

CPF
- TOC: Chiam See Tong: Government treats CPF as a business

Uniquely Singapore
- Remember Singapore: A Walk Through The Old Neighbourhood – Serangoon Gardens

Tech
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Start-Up Cashes In on Saving Emails [Thanks Adrian]

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April 23rd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment