The Singapore Daily

Budget 2010 Debate
- Trapper’s Swamp: The Bogeyman of the “West”
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Defence spending around the world

Countdown to Elections
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Why bloggers must disregard cooling off day
- The Temasek Review: Comparison of LIVE parliamentary debates of 5 countries and the “wayang” in the Singapore Parliament

Housing Singaporeans
- Singapore Alternatives: HDB’s Flawed Policy Direction
- The Temasek Review: Prices of resale HDB flats may rise further as PR quota reached in several estates
- En Bloc Block Blog: “Where laws end, tyranny begins.”

We are agsinst Capital Punishment
- TOC: Do we not have room for remorse, repentence and conversion?
- Rachel Zeng: Merely a co-incidence?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: Re-tune the COE quota
- department of crappy engineering: manned but unmanned

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Cord blood banking - should you, or shouldn’t you?

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Why are surveys and rankings about Singapore always spectacular?
- TOC: Don’t stand in the way of evolving social workers

Life, the universe and everything
- The Pattern Trader: Why Traders Fail – Lesson 1
- Small steps for Social PR: Are Starhub MaxMobile Elite Users Getting What They Are Paying for?

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Guardian: Heroin smuggler challenges Singapore death sentence
- Bloomberg: Singapore’s Export Growth Accelerates as Recovery Strengthens
- Reuters: In asset shift, Temasek checks out tech sector
- CNET: Singapore telcos talk LTE: Should you care?
- Washington Post: A stunning AIDS fact
- BBC: Too many visit GPs with minor ailments, campaigners say
- Reuters: Business must change to earn back the public’s trust

Budget 2010 Debate
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim: Tier electricity pricing to favour small consumers
- The Temasek Review: Misleading ST article on “rise” in productivity when it continues to decrease in 2009

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: TOC Editorial: Cooling-off day may lead to heated confusion

Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Debt and Delusion..
- Trapper’s Swamp: HDB flat prices to remain high, COV to stay

We are agsinst Capital Punishment
- Lianain Films: “For Me, I’m Hoping For A Miracle” [Thanks Seelan]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Blowin’ In The Wind: More locals than foreigners hired after 2 years

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Elevating Singapore’s Public Transportation By A Notch
- Brad’s Blog: MyTransport.SG: Why LTA Really Killed the ‘Park-a-Lot’ iPhone App

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Unethical screening - a timely warning

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore, Temasek, good governance and the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index

Woman No Enough
- TOC: Gagged by the church – Foyce Le Xuan
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Misguided Heroism of Minister George Yeo
- The Sketch Times: Ohhh… Jacky Boyyyyy…
- Jarrod’s Infernal Emissions: I’mA brief interlude.. [Thanks Seelan]

Re education
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “From an elite school”;《名校出身》

Daily Discourse
- journalism.sg: Independent Judiciary requires respect and support of public
- The Temasek Review: Why do we need so many PAP strawberries MPs in Parliament?
- Michael Fernandez: The Scars of Detention [Thanks Seelan]

Life, the universe and everything
- The Temasek Review: Singapore National Football Team: Let’s talk about statistics
- The Long and Winding Road: My stroll through the streets of that made up the Mahallah: Selegie Road

Now Showing
- Open Contours: Beyond the Model [Model Citizens]
- Cooler Insights: Of Love, Loss and Luscious CGI [The Lovely Bones]

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Free Malaysia Today: Falling prey in the Lion City
- BusinessInsider: Singapore’s Huge Bet On Sex And Gambling Is About To Pay Off Big Time
- Guardian Gallery: Thailand protesters pour human blood on government’s gates
- NYT Health: When Your Partner Is a Sex Addict
- BBC: Baldness ‘could be good for your health’ say scientists
- Reuters: People leave unique trail of germs
- Dailymail: The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world’s fattest woman
- Boston.com: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 [large photos]

Super White

via Who Moved My Singapore Cheese, who has dedicated this song to Mr Affordable.

News
- StraitsTimes: Transport info on the go
- Techgoondu: IT Show 2010: new Core i3 and i5 laptops rule
- sangsara.net: New Google Blogger templates narrowly arrive before second coming of Jesus
- Cibailang: Yes, confirmed, Facebook sets up office in Singapore
- TechieLobang: SingTel and Ericsson Ride the Waves of LTE Technology
- JustinLee.sg: Don Syme – Introduction to F#

Reviews | Guides
- LesterChan.net: Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
- Tech65: Gear65 #53 – Handii Go10 Tablet PC
- Techgoondu: Free Unlimited Plants vs Zombies, Bejewelled2, Zuma and more

We are against Capital Punishment
- Jacob 69er: Singapore’s Court of Appeal reserves judgment in Vui Kong’s appeal hearing
- TOC: M Ravi: Death penalty should not be dispensed ‘in an automated, robotic, spasmodic approach’
- TOC: Discretion to the judges – judgment reserved
- covered in his blood: A Bleak Take of the Court of Appeal and Yong Vui Kong [Thanks Paul]
- Rachel Zeng: Court of Appeal reserves judgement on Yong’s appeal

Housing Singaporeans
- Singapore Alternatives: Give us HDB Flats AT COST, NOT 30yrs mortgage Enslavement!

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Temasek Review: Wages of Singaporeans declined by 3.2% as PAP ministers increase their own pay by 8.8%
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Long-term unemployment rising in Singapore

Woman No Enough
- Singapore Aspirations: On the Jack Neo sex scandal and sexual harassment in the workplace [Thanks singaporeaspirant]
- Trapper’s Swamp: It might be real news now

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Finding our way in New Asia
- The Rot Within: Two orthogonal distinctions
- Icarus Flew Too High: The Human Rights Paradox
- Barnyard Chorus: This is STupid
- Silent Eloquence: Singapore, the misunderstood child

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore National Figure Skating Championships to be held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- Good Morning Yesterday: Central Business District Petrol Stations
- Wild Shores of Singapore: What do you think about diving in Singapore?

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- The Independent: Singapore bling: Is the city-state ready to party?
- Reuters: Big rise in arms imports threatens SE Asia: report
- AFP: Developing world has launched ‘arms race’: think-tank
- Reuters IN: INTERVIEW - Opposition chief tells Singaporeans: Don’t be afraid
- Reuters: UPDATE 1-ST Telemedia buys stake in Malaysian 3G firm
- Reuters: Q+A-Is Malaysia heading to an early election?
- BBC: Media tycoons wanted: Make your own newspaper
- Reuters: Herpes and other most-read surprises
- Guardian: Absent-mindedness is a middle-aged male problem, research shows
- BBC: Deep breathing ‘cuts stress as much as massage’
- NYT Gadgetwise: America’s Top Phone Makers? Not Who You Think
- DailyFinance: We Are the World Wide Web! Happy 25th Birthday, Dot-Com

Budget 2010 Debate
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim asks for concessionary travel for disabled on public transport
- Gerald Giam: Raymond Lim once proposed a way for “completely free” public transport
- TOC: Lonely out of the gravy train
- Singapore Alternatives: Transport Minister vs HDB Minister
- The Temasek Review: Why PAP MPs are no more but a “wayang” in Parliament
- Mr Wang Says So: The Strange History of Productivity in Singapore [Thanks Gerald]
- My sketchbook: How many civil servants to fix a light bulb?

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Time for someone new to drive Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: Does the alternative media have anything to fear?
- Majulah!: New rulings for political chatters online.
- Singabloodypore: PAP nervous about New Media, introduces “guidelines”
- The Temasek Review: No need for Minister Lui Tuck Yew to teach netizens how to “self-regulate” themselves
- Mindblogging Stuff: Heaven & Hell (political version)

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: The story of a boy
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Yong Vui Kong’s appeal on March 15

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- The Asia File: Temasek’s Malaysian governance problem: what happened next
- Yours Truly Singapore: ‘Not realistic’ for GIC to avoid making any losses

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: HIV in Singapore

Woman No Enough
- Irreligious: There’s a Jack Neo in all of us
- Cooler Insights: The Age of (Im)Morality and Immortality
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Jack Neo Affair Scandal Press Conference
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Morality is not so easy..
- Icarus Flew Too High: Jack and George, o..
- The Lycan Times: Give us a break!
- TOC: Getting into bed with Jack Neo
- AWARE: AWARE’s comments on the Jack Neo affair [Thanks Gerald]
- The Star: Backseat frolics backfire [Thanks Gerald]

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Press Muse – Singaporeans dreaming
- New Asia Republic: Rights: The foundation of a free society
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Cease The Climate Change Lethargy
- Singapore Life and Times: A sharing we will go
- Singaporean Skeptic: Some Singaporeans are Real Bastards.

Life, the universe and everything
- Growing your tree of prosperity: If women are not choosy, men will have no standards. [Thanks Wai Chung]
- Eco WALK the talk: Knock, Knock, your Green Postman is here! [Thanks Bhavani]

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Guardian: Lehman Brothers: Repo 105 and other accounting tricks
- Reuters Dealzone: Graphic: How “Repo 105″ worked
- Reuters: Factbox: Examiner’s findings of claims against Lehman officers
- Business Insider: Will Ernst & Young Survive The Lehman Fiasco?
- AP: Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund starts to open up
- NYT Consults: Assessing Your Risk of a Heart Attack
- Guardian Gallery: Thousands protest in Bangkok

“Why is the burden of competition put on ordinary Singaporeans yet again?”
LuckySingaporean

“The problem is that the ministers are asking workers to bite the bullet first.”
Ian

“We can no longer keep on churning out economic digits fit [only] for an industrialized society.”
Wong Wee Nam

“I can already imagine how someone will quote this one freaking incident and use it to justify that Singapore new media cannot be trusted.”
DK

“Productivity is only an economic indicator. By improving productivity, what do we seek to achieve?”
Donaldson Tan

“We have become addicted to government subsidies.”
Yawning Bread

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