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Integrity · Service · Excellence
- The Gigamole Diaries: The SCDF and CNB done in by a local Matahari?
- My Singapore News: Is sexual misconduct a seizable offence?

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Everything Also Complain: Yaw Shin Leong and the Other Opposition woman
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Promising MP and Civil Servants – From Sex to Scandals to Stupidity
- Blogging for Myself: A “Bad Apple” in WP basket?
- New Nation: Why should anyone care if Yaw Shin Leong screws a goat?
- Yahoo: WP MP Yaw Shin Leong embroiled in online storm

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The Dark Side is preparing for 2016 GE
- Tan Jee Say: Chinese New Year walkabout in Ang Mo Kio on Saturday 21 Jan 2012
- Political Writings: How Not To Be A Politician
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: PM gives transport workers a boost on the first day of the Chinese New Year
- Singapore Democrats: Why the delay in reporting news of such magnitude?
- TOC: PAP supporters are the ‘silent majority’?
- Sgpolitics.net: The Barren Political Landscape

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- TOC: Ethnic based self-help system – broken?

Housing
- Housing Matters: LEGO’s The Way
- Today: Housing data not quite yet complete [Thanks Adrian]

Educate Our Youth
- Yee Jenn Jong: I Not Stupid (小孩不笨)

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Transient Workers Count 2: How low can a salary go

Daily Disclosure
- A Singaporean Says: What can we learn from British grammar/state/private schools? [Thanks SP]
- George Yeo: China’s Parallel Universe published in SCMP, LHZB, ST, Huffington Post [Thanks Cheng]
- Yawningbread: Non-Chinese at Chinese New Year
- Social Media & Digital Marketing in Singapore: Is Social Media A Fad?
- Where Bears Roam Free: Inherent flaw in S’pore’s Employment Act pertaining to AWS
- Empty Vessel: Why I don’t feel sorry for Kodak
- Senang Diri: Royal Malaysian Air Force to send largest contingent of warplanes to Singapore Airshow

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- Today: Does money really buy clean government? [Thanks Wee]

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January 27th, 2012 | Tags: HDB, PAP, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics, WP | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Integrity · Service · Excellence
- The Gigamole Diaries: High salaries discourages corruption? A reality check.
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Dangerously Poking in the Year of the Dragon
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Corruption – Many shapes and forms…
- Loh and Behold: Be Honest with Citizens Please! [Thanks Annabel]
- SG Boleh: Senior SCDF and CNB Officers under Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau investigation
- Tan Kin Lian: Investigation for corrupt practices
- Feed Me To The Fish: Corruption? What’s That?
- New Asia Republic: Senior MHA officials under CPIB investigation
- New Nation: Chinese tabloid Lianhe Wanbao the unlikeliest hero?
- Yahoo: ‘CPIB probe pivotal in demonstrating trustworthiness of gov’t’

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- Reflections on Change: Ministerial Salaries Review — Do Most Roads Lead to Rome? [Thanks James]
- Bryan Ti’s FB: The Debate that WP Apparently Lost (Its Way). Or Did It? [Thanks WIlly]

Daily Disclosure
- Ministry Of Love And Justice: Evangalical Rubbish In A Church.
- A Singaporean In Australia: Dragon Year Baby Myth of Singapore
- Trash Thoughts: The Online Citizen – The safe haven for (former) Worker Party cadres [Thanks Andy]
- Senang Diri: Rail security matters for Singapore: Questions to mull over
- Temasekrevealed: JUST FOR LAUGHS: CREATIVE AH LOONG

Healthcare
- Today: Extra charges on Medisave withdrawals should be waived [Thanks Adrian]

Educate Our Youth
- Yawningbread: Education system a high stakes board game
- Visakan Veerasamy: Disparity in tertiary education facilities

A Vote for Change
- Political Writings: The 100: Top 10 Political Writings
- Musings From the Lion City: Not What They Need
- Today: Residents’ concerns are acted upon

January 26th, 2012 | Tags: CNB, Corruption, CPIB, Integrity, PAP, Public Service Division, SCDF, Singapore, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics, WP | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

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Integrity · Service · Excellence
- ALVINOLOGY: Getting to Know the Commissioner of the SCDF, Peter Lim Sin Pang and CNB Chief, Ng Boon Gay
- Everything Also Complain: SCDF and CNB chiefs seriously misconducting themselves
- Singapore Notes: A Bad Dose Of Crap
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Corruption practices at government bodies – more deterrent measures needed?

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- Random Thoughts of a Free Thinker: Going Beyond Salaries
- yawningbread: Cut in ministers’ pay is good, but detailed mechanisms matter
- Yours Truly Singapore: Heated words over hot topic
- TOC: Pay for Performance
- New Asia Republic: Designing KPIs that are Robust to Manipulation: KPIs, Salaries and Incentivised Action
- Today: Why Singapore has the cleanest govt money can buy: Bloomberg

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: News submerged in “ponding”?
- Otterman Speaks: This search engine sucks! Instead of IDA’s ‘Enhanced Singapore Government Online Search’, just google
- Abdillah Zamzuri: $32 Mosque Thief Unrepentant
- The Blue Sweater: Mind Your Language II: What did you say?

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: More than 150 overseas appeals to spare Yong Vui Kong

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Yahoo: He fights for foreign workers

Infoblogamus
- New Nation: Photographers spotted in the wild

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: Indonesian Detained for Facebook Post

January 25th, 2012 | Tags: CNB, Corruption, CPIB, Integrity, PAP, Public Service Division, SCDF, Singapore, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics, WP | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Daily Disclosure
- TRE: Exclusive: Core member of opposition party alleged to be having extramarital affair
- Temasek Revealed: TREmeritus Infiltrated with Anti-WP Elements
- Hardwarezone Forums: Exclusive: Core member of reputable opposition party alleged to have committed extramarital affair [Thanks Chen]

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- Blogging for Myself: Fatigue over the Pay Debate

January 21st, 2012 | Tags: PAP, Singapore, Singapore Politics, WP, Yaw Shin Leong | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynival Investor: From Zeroes to Dragons: What KJ, GMS, PA, Tin & Han should do
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Who Is Better/Worst? The Thief OR The Beggar?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Why Bother Writing About Singapore Online?
- musings: Maid = Modern Day Slave ?

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Ministerial Pay : Why the man on the street is right and PM Lee is wrong…Part 2
- pressrun.net: Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore must not be a Third World country
- Reinventing The Rice Bowl: The PM on Paying For Talent !
- TOC: Ministerial Salary – It’s not (just) about the Money
- Today: Why the adversarial tone during salary debate?

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Death Penalty: Ramalingan Ravinthran, another blooper by anti-death penalty lobbyists?

Infoblogamus
- TOC: Some Fundamental Aspects about Floods

Stuff
- Only William: Handsome Guys you seen… Now Pretty Girls for you

January 20th, 2012 | Tags: PAP, Singapore, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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- [ insights, interests, in transition ]: Wahh! Millionaire! – Ministerial Pay cut
- nofearSingapore: Singaporeans do not accept politicians’ revised pay – blame it on PAP and Gini
- From Hri to all Thomsoners: Ministerial Salaries [Thanks George]
- The Blue Sweater: Peculiar Justifications
- Political Writings: Are PAP Ministers Man Enough?
- Molitics: Kuan Yew Tells Honest Truths About Singapore
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Stand-up Comedian
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Ministerial Pay : Why the man on the street is right and PM Lee is wrong.
- Wall Street Journal: Salaries Cut, Singapore Leaders Are Still Well-Paid
- TOC: Salaries that are beyond reach, must still be logical

Housing
- Yahoo: Khaw proves point by releasing median Q4 COV figures

Truth, Justice and the Singapore Way
- Unbranded BreadnButter’s FB: Siow ah! Who wants to assassinate PAPies?
- New Nation: Man hauled to court for inciting violence on Facebook
- Loh and Behold: Who Says Life is Fair? [Thanks Annabel]
- TOC: How fair is our criminal justice system?

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Yawningbread: Wage differential between low and high end vocations unusually high in Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Locals’ pay $3000 to $4000, expats $7000 to $8000 – same job scope!

Daily Disclosure
- Blogging for Myself: Bad time for home visits Mr. MP
- Leong Sze Hian: Poor children have 10% chance of making it to the top?
- ALVINOLOGY: 14-year-old Singapore Filmmaker/ Actor Amos Yee Insults Chinese New Year with Thick American Accent in Video
- The Real Thing Is: Dr Tan Cheng Bock – Pension, Annual Report, Presidency

January 19th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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- Unbranded BreadnButter’s FB: Political salary: It’s all a political wayang
- New Nation: Ministerial pay review: Why our political leaders are dooming us all
- Molitics: Lessons from Hsien Loong: How to be Right and Out of Sync
- PIPALA TREE: Solid.
- Yours Truly Singapore: Ministeria​l salary 2012
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Math 101 for Ministers
- Singapore Notes: Flogging A Dead Horse

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yahoo: FT policy may have helped widen income gap: panel

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Uniting the Opposition: Framework for Consensus

Daily Disclosure
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Is It Realistic To Encourage Off-Peak Train Travel In Singapore?
- Alex Lew 刘彦良: My taxi fare opinions

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Wikipedia going offline to protest against SOPA

January 18th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

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PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: DPM Teo : Don’t compare S’pore ministerial pay with other countries
- Molitics: Teo Chee Hean: To compare, or not to compare?
- Blogging for Myself: Political Salaries
- Everything Also Complain: Chan Chun Sing’s Chai Tau Kway
- Kall Geez: Revised Income Tax, Ministerial Pay & other random thoughts
- visakan veerasamy: Ministerial Pay! Beyond The Balancing Act: The Question We Need To Ask.
- Today Online: Ministerial pay vs talent
- PAP’s Denise Phua: Current pay system not an option
- The Workers’ Party: Chen Show Mao’s speech on Ministerial Salary Review
- SG Hard Truth: WP plans differ little from recommendations: PAP MPs
- Ravi Philemon: Workers’ Party’s proposal on Ministerial salaries is the clearest yet
- Siew Kum Hong: We not stupid, ok?
- Fabrications About The PAP: Tan Cheng Bock’s claim about ministerial pension

A Vote for Change
- Yahoo: PAP incapable of reinventing itself: Catherine Lim
- Musings From the Lion City: I Disagree With Catherine Lim
- WSJ: Singapore Inc. Needs a Rethink, Economists Say

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- publichouse.sg: Do not lean against the door – it may open

Catch the Falling Sky!
- Leong Sze Hian: Electricity tariff: Did fuel component increase by 181 percent?

Daily Discourse
- Xu Si Han: Restoring balance to the law of copyright
- TOC: Don’t give up on Singapore’s Special Olympics
- Otterman speaks…: Many die for that single illegal animal purchase
- The Long and Winding Road: Chingay returns with a big splash!

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

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A Vote for Change
- Everything Also Complain: Singaporeans suffering from PAP fatigue
- Trash Thoughts: (Unlicensed) Property Agent in the News again
- My Singapore News: Tin Pei Ling
- Publichouse: Wassup with your MPs?

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
- Singapore Notes: Damn Bloody Stupid

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Chapter Two: Reload: Of salaries, value and hypocrisy
- Convex Set: On the Ministerial Salary Review
- 卮言优语: 滥杀无辜

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Sojourn: The Greening of Singapore
- The Temple of Thoughts 3: What is wrong with Stomp.com.sg
- Furry Brown Dog: In praise of the new media

Housing
- Yahoo: New measures have already dampened property market

TOC turns 5
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: TOC’s Fifth Anniversary
- Feed Me To The Fish: Friday 13, 2012 – TOC 5th Birthday & Awards Night
- TOC: TOC Awards Night – The award recipients
- TOC: Ng E-Jay – TOC’s Blogger of the Year

Infoblogamus
- Yahoo: S’porean gymnast qualifies for Olympics in historic first
- Good Morning Yesterday: Typewriter

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Fusion Garage goes into liquidation

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

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Singapore ‘ponded’
- The Gigamole Diaries: Experts disagree with NEA

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- Unbranded Bread n Butter FB: The difference between MPs and aunties.
- TOC: What are Mr Lui’s view on SIA’s A380s?

Daily Disclosure
- Trash Thoughts: PAP’s Tan Chuan-Jin has a heart ♥
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Should Singapore’s Members Of Parliament Still Hold Full-Time Occupations?

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
- Singapore In General: DBS To Alert Customers If ATM Withdrawls via SMS

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Why I Have Chosen To Further My Studies In Singapore
- [ insights, interests, in transition ]: My school cut my hair?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: An annoying ministerial boilerplate remark
- A Singaporean in Australia: First World Country: Third World Discrimination
- Yahoo: Foreign worker hanged himself after losing work permits

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Singapore Notes: Transparent Pay System, My Foot
- The Brotherhood Press: Grace Fu makes a fool of herself again

Housing
- Today: Undue focus on foreign purchasers
- Today: Unregistered ‘property agent’ jailed, fined
- TRE: Serious warning for ‘Transient Rooms Singapore’ flat owner

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe in Second Chances: Challenge of Attorney General’s discretion dismissed in capital offence case

Infoblogamus
- Singapore’s Land Transport : New MRT map, updated with Circle Line Extension
- Today: New life for army camp

January 13th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Daily Disclosure
- Words of the Cze: SS
- Tan Chuan-Jin’s FB: A sad varied evening…

The Gospel of Harry
- Blogging for Myself : Malays in 1968

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
- Singapore Notes: Damn Bloody Slow Bank

Singapore ‘ponded’
- Singapore Short Stories: Marina Barrage: a white elephant against floods?

Educate Our Youth
- The Temple of Thoughts 3: The Line Between Free Will and Discipline
- sgentrepreneurs: How much should you pay an intern in a start-up?

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Trash Thoughts: Veteran Journalist lifted comments from Channel News Asia forums [Thanks WL ]
- Political Writings: Why PAP Needs High Minister Salaries
- Reflections On Change: Ministerial Salaries Review — Salaries for a Capable and Committed Government [Thanks James]
- Yahoo: S’pore refutes article’s remarks on ministerial pay
- Committee to Review Ministerial Salaries: Explaining some points again [Thanks Mrs Goh]

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Unbranded Bread n Butter FB: TOC: Oops I did it again…

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- My Singapore News: MRT jams – Another expert recommendation

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Leong Sze Hian: Can eligibility criteria for PA scheme could be made more “humane”? Chan Chun Sing’s non-answer

We are against capital punishment
- Article 14: Death by prosecutorial discretion
- Teo Soh Lung’s FB: Give Life A Second Chance

A Vote for Change
- Publichouse: Political salaries and the trust divide

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- A Singaporean In Australia : Audit Your Conscience

Infoblogamus
- Wall Street Journal: Af-Pak Spats Spread to Singapore

January 12th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Daily Disclosure
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Social Media and Gullibility Among Some Singaporeans
- Tan Kin Lian: Maternity leave for female employees
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Kids Say Their President Has The World’s Coolest Job
- 情在人间: 德士车资谁决定？

Housing
- A Yummy Slice of Life: Shut Up and SIts Down, REDAS
- TRE: Foreigner turns HDB flat into a budget hotel

Educate Our Youth
- Where Bears Roam Free: Pre-tests at tuition centres – missing the bigger picture
- lovelivfe: Is results really the most important thing in life?
- Rachel Zeng’s Blog: Please Wake Up

A Vote for Change
- New Asia Republic: Grassroots work as the key to winning minority group support
- TOC: Potong Pasir – A town that is losing its soul?

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- geraldgiam.sg: Compensation for Rochor residents

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- Baey Yam Keng’s FB: 减薪不减心 [Thanks Mrs Goh]

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: The birthday that might not have been

Infoblogoramus
- Remember Singapore: Our Favourite Playgrounds of Yesteryears
- Five Foot Way Magazine: Looking After Death

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: What’s Next For Anwar’s Accuser?

January 11th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

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“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- Seize the Day: Finally some accountability from a very public service provider
- mrbrown.com: The entertaining Transport Minister
- O Captain, my Captain!: O Captain, my Captain! [Thanks Jason]
- Yahoo: Penalty framework for transport to be reviewed

Singapore ‘ponded’
- Everything Also Complain: Vivian Balakrishnan: A flood is a flood
- Yahoo: Minister to PUB: A flood is a flood

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
- sgboleh: DBS/POSB Card Scamming incident
- Words Of The Cze: Line
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: When SPH & DBS team up well, S’pore Inc can be Awesome

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Publichouse: Going beyond the emotive
- Musings: More On Ministerial Salaries
- Desparatebeep: The Distraction Over Salaries [Thanks Adrian]
- FreshGrads: Public Service is About Love of Country
- 白马非马: [高薪养廉]如何变成伪命题

Daily Disclosure
- POSKOD.SG: Consider the Kopitiam
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: The Queen Has Fallen And The Mentor Walks Out
- Food Fuels Me to Talk: 3rd World here we come?
- Singapore Sojourn: Stepping Forward with ‘Fin’esse
- TOC: Re-employment act: 90 per cent get pay cut?
- TOC: 18 percent drop in salary for poly graduates?
- Yours Truly Singapore: What lies ahead in bilingual journey

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts Foreigners Setup Own Business to Employ their own kind
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: Preserving Jobs for Singaporeans
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Recruitor whistle blew on malpractices of Faststream Recruitment Pte Ltd
- TRE: Burger King Singapore denies allegation of discrimination against NS men

Infoblogamus
- Singapore Business Review: Kiss my asterisk: Bad headline writing in Singapore [Thanks Adrian]
- U-Start @ Muhammad Haniff’s Site: Just sharing – Former JI detainee in exclusive interview with the Straits Times
- Good Morning Yesterday: 1960s Singapore – The Railway (by Tim Light)
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Loses Nokia to China

Stuff
- New Nation: How innocent is Anwar Ibrahim?
- Wall Street Journal: Relief, Calls for Change After Anwar Acquitted
- CogitASIA: Anwar Ibrahim Acquitted- A New Day in Malaysia?

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

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“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – SMRT CEO
[Read the background story here]

- guanyinmiao’s musings: SMRT’s Saw Phaik Hwa Resigns, Mountbatten MP Lim Biow Chuan’s Two Cents’ Worth
- A Singaporeans in Australia: The SMRT Secret
- My Little Corner: Definition of CEO?
- Singapore Notes: Spring Cleaning Required
- The Void Deck: Piak Wa – Saw Phaik Hwa and What Next for Industry-PAP Ties?
- TOC: Complete accountability for our land transport grid
- Today: MRT breakdowns: The big questions

Better Transport Fares for All
- Lim Kun Yun Edison FB: Reflection on Meeting with PTC Chairman, Mr Gerard on the issue of Polytechnic Transportation Fare [Thanks WL]

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
[Read the background story here]

- flâneurose: When keying in PIN, cover the keypad, ’nuff said.
- STOMP: Long queues at POSB branches after news of unauthorised cash withdrawals [Thanks Annie]

Property Agents VS Consumers (and Yaw Shin Leong in between)
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Unbranded B&B goes kai kai in mainstream media land
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: Straits Times Interview – Informal Dialogues With Estate Agents
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: Shin Min Daily Interview – Informal Dialogues With Estate Agents

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
[View the full Ministerial Salary Review Committee here]

- Singapore Recalcitrant: Serving the People or Self-serving?
- The Real Thing Is..: Ministerial Salary Review – Kenneth Jeyaretnam (RP) – 2 portfolios = 2 pay ? [Thanks George]
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP: Another Unnecessary Self-Inflicted Social Media Injury
- Andrew Loh: $715,000 too much for a ministerial office? Nah.
- Sgpolitics.net: What kind of people are we trying to attract?
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Leaders Cut Pay, But Win Few Hearts
- Today: Debate over ministerial pay is value-laden [Thanks Adrian]

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- TWC2: Another House of Cards Collapses

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: No more shark’s fin at NTUC
- Growing Your Tree of Prosperity: ngineer makes living salvaging rubbish – may be a good thing.
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Is Dubai safe for Singaporean visitors?
- Publichouse: ex ed – MOE should reveal more information

Infoblogamus
- Blog To Express: Ways Done in the Past – Firecrackers [Thanks Ah guan]

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

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PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
[View the full Ministerial Salary Review Committee here]

- Kall Geez’s FB: A reply to TOC Leong Sze Hian on what’s missing in the ministerial salary review [Thanks Chong]
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Lui Cock Yew: Sri Dewa barber after the salary cut?
- Molitics: Misunderstanding Grace Fu
- Words of The Cze: Oblong
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Current Affairs – Ministerial Pay Revision
- funny little world: Misrepresented, Misquoted, Misunderstood – Tips to stop the self-pwn.
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Money Issues
- Siew Kum Hong: Answering the wrong question on ministerial salaries
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Maths not strong point of Gerald Ee and friends
- FreshGrads: Comments on the Ministerial Salary Review
- Singapore Notes: Millionaire Ministers of Singapore
- pressrun.net: World’s highest paid leaders and their economies
- Andrew Loh: Moving forward from salaries
- Sgpolitics.net: More thoughts on ministerial pay revisions
- TOC: Why compare salaries only with private sector? What about other countries public services?
- SG Hard Truth: Why should Singaporeans care …..( Ministerial Salaries Review)
- New Nation: Hard times ahead for our poor ministers?

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
[Read the background story here]

- sgboleh: DBS/POSB Internet Banking lagging & Passbook printing stations long queue
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Unauthorized withdrawal from DBS/POSB account
- A Singaporean In Australia: Asia’s Safest Bank
- ALVINOLOGY: DBS Bank: “Safest Bank in Asia 2009, 2010 and 2011″?
- Yahoo: DBS investigates unauthorised withdrawals

Housing
- Gintai: HDB Interim Rental Housing (IRH)

Daily Disclosure
- Bump!: Diary of a reformed elitist [Thanks George]
- A Singaporean in Australia: The Excuses to Return to Singapore
- Politics: Ministerial Salary Review & Education

A Vote for Change
- TOC: 部长薪金调整 – 换汤不换药的政治秀

Infoblogamus
- New Asia Republic: 官委议员vs政党选票：包容还是竞争的民主？

January 6th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
[View the full Ministerial Salary Review Committee Report here]

- Chemical Generation Singapore: Whither the Ministers’ Pension
- Singapore Kopitok: Symbolism in Slashing Salaries and Lengthening Legitimacy
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: What Do You Mean By A Person’s “Market Value”?
- Singapore Sojourn: The First Cut Is The Deepest?
- Ravi Philemon: How many in Singapore get 8 months bonus?
- ALVINOLOGY: Quoteworthy – Grace Fu Hai Yien
- A Singaporean in AUstralia: Who Is Dis Grace Fu Fooling?
- pressrun.net: Singapore ministers’ salaries pegged to millionaires’ incomes
- Sgpolitics.net: Analysis on the pay cuts of political appointment holders
- TOC: Ministerial salary review – what’s missing?
- Publichouse: Ministerial salaries – qualified progress
- Political Writings: The End For The Opposition
- Zach’s Thought Blot: A Young Man’s Thoughts on Ministerial Salaries
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Good Salary Review Report
- My Singapore News: Ministerial Salary Recommendation – My take
- sgboleh: Singapore President, PM, ministers and Speaker of Parliament face pay cut of 36%-53%
- Ἴκαρος: The Great “Pay Drop”
- Singapore Notes: Still Greedy As Ever
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Pay cuts for PM and Ministers: only token cuts
- Blogging for Myself: Ministers pay suggest what we are
- Cheow Yong Jian’s FB: RECOMMENDED MODIFICATIONS IN SALARY FORMULA FOR GOVERNMENTAL APPOINTMENT HOLDERS
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Leaders, Among Globe’s Best Paid, Brace for Cuts
- Yahoo: NSP, SDP: PM, Ministers’ pay still too high

January 5th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Daily Disclosure
- The Craftsman’s Forge: Great Start to the New Year!
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Three Cheers for VivianB, Pls Go Yaacob
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Why Regulation, Not Nationalisation, Should Be The Way Forward For Singapore’s Public Transportation System
- Everything Also Complain: $2000 reward for smuggling Chinese national
- Den Gogh’s FB: “Sorry, your child is not bright enough” ~ Today
- pressrun.net: Singapore’s economic growth and population increase: Part II
- New Nation: 2011 in retrospect
- Today: Singapore’s counter-terror success
- Yahoo: ‘All hands on deck for S’pore to weather storm’

Singapore ‘ponded’
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Dear Dr Bala, What about the Barrage?

A Vote for Change
- Pritam Singh’s FB: That Zaobao Interview
- Davian Lee’s FB: Pritam’s Disillusioned View on Being an MP [Thanks Willy]
- The Blue Sweater: A Hot Potato
- New Nation: Updated: Did Pritam Singh really say that?
- SG Hard Truths: how much is your demand vs your contribution ? – by writer from the net [Thanks Willy]

Whoops. Establishment mis-haps
- Yahoo: DNA samples from criminal cases to be re-tested after HSA mistake

Healthcare
- Today: Shouldn’t subsidy be 100 per cent?

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- TOC: Why was Dahlberg’s passport not impounded?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: So called “Foreign Talent” arriving into Singapore
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Local PMET Unhappy With Errant Foreign Employer

We are against capital punishment
- Balderdash: On M Ravi’s challenging of the Constitutionality of the Death Penalty

Stuff
- The Star: Singapore stamp duty a blessing?

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

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PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Denise Phua’s FB: On Ministeral and Civil Service Pay – April 2007 – Denise Phua
- Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss’ FB: MINISTERIAL SALARIES IN SINGAPORE 101
- Publichouse: Hard truths or hardly true – ministerial salaries?

Singapore ‘ponded’
- Mr Wang Says so: Flooding in Singapore – We Need Solutions, Not Excuses
- Ryan Goh: Life Through these eyes: What worries me about PUB’s response to the recent flooding
- Singapore Notes: Watered Down Explanations
- Everything Also Complain: Stamford canal to blame for Orchard Road floods
- [Google Search - define 'ponding']

2011 Review
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Sadly Uniquely S’porean
- Senang Diri: Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) training safety in 2011
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: 2011 : A year of awakening….
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: 2011: year in review
- ALVINOLOGY: Alvinology Awards 2011

Daily Disclosure
- pressrun.net: Singapore’s economic growth and population increase
- A Singaporean Says: Child development, entry to Oxbridge and simply common sense
- laremy.sg: In context
- Yawningbread: Share with public all data on bus service standards
- The Singapore Globalist: GDP: The Measure of a Nation? by Dominic Foo

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Zahid Monday’s FB: Last Day of 2011

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Political Writings: Everybody’s Favourite Punching Bag Series: National Service
- Crossroads: Farewell 2011

Healthcare
- My Singapore News: Medicare for Senior Citizens

We are against capital punishment
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: CELEBRATE VUI KONG’S 24TH BIRTHDAY WITH US!
- TOC: Just One Life – how a boy from Sabah kept TOC going

A Vote for Change
- Feed Me To The Fish: The Real Quitters!
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Prime Ministers’s 2012 New Year Message
- Singapore Democrats: Foreigner accused of violence allowed to leave S’pore but Chee cannot
- Zaobao: 工人党：救济人民是政府责任 不应由议员承担

Infoblogamus
- New York Times: Making Math Lessons as Easy as 1, Pause, 2, Pause … [Thanks BL]

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: DK’s Tech Prediction for 2012

January 3rd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

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