The Singapore Daily

Burmese Protests
- I.Z. Reloaded: The Burma Protests
- Singapore Patriot: Singapore-led ASEAN must take immediate, concrete action in Myanmar to prevent bloodshed
- Rojak or the melting pot: The Power of Faith, Muzzled
- The Online Citizen: TOC condemns violent crackdown on peaceful Burma protesters
- Zuco’s Blog: The March of the Sangha The March on Youtube
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: Myanmar more democratic than Singapore?
- Singapore Patriot: “It’s really bad in Yangon now…please can someone do something for our country”
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Burmese shrug off military rule
- nofearSingapore: Burma’s despotic regime has crossed the line
- kelvin quee: Singaporeans – Wear a Red Shirt on Friday for Burma
- Insanepolygon: Million Dollar Solution from The Million Dollar Minister
- ash’ventures: sign the global petition in support of the Burmese rising
- All and Sundry Singapore: Burma, Saffron Revolution, and ASEAN
- Sriram Krishnan: Burmese born blogger based in London
- Vantan.org: Social media and politics update
- HWZ: 2007 anti-government protests in Myanmar

Daily Discourse
- My Singapore News: Allow public protest
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Racist Hydra
- Urbanrant: Malaysian lawyers protest the “apppointment of judges”
- Decay on Net: Our ministers need another pay increment urgently!!!
- Alice in Wonderland: Conspiracy theory for new dog legistration law
- EDMW: [NEWS]FT Population grows to >1mil

Life, the universe and everything
- All and Sundry Singapore: See How Creative Singaporeans Can Be
- Accidental Serendipity: Do Singaporeans actually have childhood dreams?
- EDMW: The ULTIMATE GIF thread

Odex Update
- Sekai wa、 Utsukushii deshou?: Odex’s Haruhi Part II!
- EDMW: Xedo’s haruhi subs are from A.F.K lawl

September 28th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

Lee Hyori 이효리 (Lee Hyo-lee, 李孝利) became the highest paid female singer in Korea when she signed a 3 year deal with Korean M-Net Media for a rumoured W1.5 billion (S$2.5m) in 2006. Originally from the successful K-pop girl group Fin.K.L, Lee’s first solo album won many “Daesangs” (Korean equivalent to “Artist of the Year”). Although her acting career got off to a rocky start, her role in If Love… Like Them opposite Lee Dong Gun did well. In 2007, Lee Hyori became the first Asian to lead Calvin Klein Jeans’ “Pure Calvin” Collection campaign in asia.

Pictures of Lee Hyori after the break
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September 28th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Burmese Protests
- Mr Wang Says So: Turning Ugly
- Koh Jie Kai, TOC: Time to take a stand – an open letter to George Yeo
- The Online Citizen: Monks lead protest in Burma
- The States Times: Learning From The Maestro
- Singabloodypore: Eyewitness reports from bloggers inside Burma
- Singabloodypore: Support the Burmese Rising
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Is the Myanmar Bloodshed inevitable?
- ash’ventures: curfew in yangon and prison for Suu Kyi

CPF & Annuities
- My Singapore News: Growing dichotomy
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: CPF. GIC and Annuities!!!!
- HWZ: MP tells why she fully supports CPF reforms

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Getting Women Back in the Workforce
- Making Sense – The Free Man: A Scapegoated Ahmadinejad in Herr Bush’s Court
- Leong Sze Hian, TOC: Why does HDB need to increase prices of flats so rapidly?
- Insane Polygons: Can Bloggers Be Journalists?

Life, the universe and everything
- Ignorantsoup: Why do we China woman this, China woman that?
- Sophie’s World: DBS’ Jackson Tai quits
- The Iehovian: Of Donations

Infoblogoramus
- Salary.sg: Salary Increment to be 5.2%

September 27th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (5)

Halo 3 Reviews
- Gamespot: Halo 3 review
- GamePro.com: GamePro Reviews Halo 3!
- Game Informer Online: Halo 3, Coming full circle

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: The Magnitude of Halo: Is this our modern day classics?
- Maestoso Amore: Code XtremeApps competition
- beconfused: Microsoft is in talks to buy Facebook stake
- Shades of Twilight: Just Some Ramblings – MMOs

Tech Talk
- The Inquirer: Apple promises to kill unlocked Iphones
- iSuppli Corp: Teardown Analysis of Latest nano Reveals Extensive Component Changes
- My Digita Life: Download and Install iTunes without QuickTime
- Wired Blogs: Radeon HD 2900 PRO 1GB Out Now: Foot-long Heatsink Optional
- DIYers IT Zone: AMD GAME! Website

September 27th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

CPF & Annuities
- Siew Kum Hong: Thoughts on response to CPF speech
- Perspective Unlimited: CPF Reforms: Why Government’s Critics Mostly Miss the Point
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Tweaking the CPF scheme

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Life and Times: OfficialSpeak
- Urbanrant: DBS’ Jackson Tai steps down: another foreign talent to leave Singapore after some good years
- Singapore Angle: Challenges of ASEAN at 40
- Mr Wang Says So: SPH Editor Looking A Bit Silly Again
- absolute-ly missy: maybe it’s time we took a cold, hard look at where we’re going
- SPUG: Taking up the batons or picking up the pieces?

Life, the universe and everything
- Ian on Singapore: Growing Up In A Small Christian Church
- Notes From My Heart: Do I Heart Sg Or Do I Heart Malaysia?
- KM Eighty! The Elite’s Daughter
- nofearSingapore: Myanmar needs our support… but the silence is deafening!
- What Others Say?: Mandalay Dreams – Monkey Business in Myanmar

Infoblogoramus
- A Tattooed Blog: Be Part of Blogging History [Bloggers Against Abuse]
- I.Z. Reloaded: Mystery Soldier Wanted!
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Singapore’s Inflation highest in 12 years

September 26th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Erika Toda 戸田恵梨香 began modeling at a very young age before moving to Japanese TV dramas. Her natural beauty and her talent as an actress won her many fans as a J-idol. Recently she played the role of Amane in the hit movie Death Note.

Pictures of Erika Toda after the break
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September 26th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

CPF & Annuities
- The Online Citizen: Uniquely Singapore, F1 or F9: Are our ministers also confused by the annuity… erm… Longevity Insurance scheme?
- The States Times: Where’s The Money?
- HWZ: A hero in the making
- sgForums: “GIC does not use CPF funds to invest”

Pink Issues
- The Legal Janitor: The religious fundamentalist agenda: Derek Hong lies

Daily Discourse
- The Rot Within: No, We’re Fine, Really.
- Yours Truly Singapore: Strong team of leaders ‘needed to keep S’pore going’
- Journalism.sg: Are bloggers journalists? A critical look at the idea of ‘professionalism’
- The Online Citizen: Can bloggers be journalists? Leslie Fong: “Emphatically no!”
- nofearSingapore: Myanmar’s brave Buddhist clergy and personal thoughts on peaceful protest

Life, the universe and everything
- mrbrown: Stone seats 2: The Sequel

Odex Update
- The FØØL’s Progress: The ODEX Saga: Making Waves
- EDMW: [LATEST NEWS]ODEX call me to pay fine liao, any bros out there also receive?

Infoblogoramus
- The Online Citizen: Public forum on ASEAN Human Rights Working Group
- JZ88 folding bike blog: How to bring a folding bike onto MRT?

September 25th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Video: Heard about Pfingo? Kevin chats with the Tech65 crew
- linusNUS: EU think tank recommends unbundling Windows from PCs

Reviews
- BCCHardware: Samsung 40in. LCD HDTV LN-T4061F [Review]
- Inside HW: LCD Roundup: Something for everyone

Gaming
- Daily Tech: Early Halo 3 Limited Edition Owners Plagued by Scratched Discs
- Joystiq: Sony’s DualShock 3 is finally official: PS3 gets rumble

TGS 2007, Babes and Cosplayers
- Dailymotion: Tokyo Game Show 2007, walk through
- Gametrailers: TGS2007 Booth Babe Video
- Mr. Destructoid: Mr. Destructoid’s TGS2007 booth babe photos
- Play-asia.com: Booth babes
- Joystiq: TGS cosplayers
- Digitalgames.fr: TGS 07 : Booth Babes

Tecmo won the best booth award. Watch the reason why they won, plus TGS Trailers for MGS4, DMC4, GT5, Soul Calibur 4, White Knight Story, Silent Hill and GT5 after the break.
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September 25th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Pink Issues
- Winter is Coming: Megachurches and Homosexuality
- Colin’s page on the village: Disgusting = criminal ??
- The Daily Backtrack: Defeat
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: There is some sort of enslavement going on…
- sgForums: Singapore gays allowed a step forward, but pushed two back

CPF & Annuities
- Mr Wang Says So: Your Retirement Savings

Daily Discourse
- Choo Zheng Xi, TOC: TOC Opinion: PM Lee at NUS: Where’s the substance?
- Ng Sook Zhen, TOC: TOC Report: PM Lee at NUS Ministerial Forum
- ringisei: Defining ASEAN civil society / Looking an Indon award in the mouth
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Crusade against AGEISM in Singapore!
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Booming economy, growing poverty….
- The States Times: Singapore Is For The Poor
- What others Say?: Why Even ‘Mind Ye Own Business’ Blogging Has To Eventually Lead to ‘Total War’ – A Competitive Game Theory Analysis (Part I) (Part 2)

Life, the universe and everything
- All and Sundry Singapore: Citizen Paparazzi on Stomp
- Crazy Hamster: Stomp: Citizen Journalism at its best or are we breeding a paparazzi society.
- Mad, Mad World: STOMPing on Youths
- HWZ: Why church inked Buona Vista mega-property deal

Odex Update
- EDMW: While ODEX is doing crap, Bluemax is attracting customers with better anime products

Infoblogoramus
- Pseudonymity: Governments Routinely Dodge U.N. Rights Investigators
- Nucholas Chan’s Blog: My Heroes is Back

September 24th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Fiona Xie 谢宛谕 made her acting debut as a nurse in the local series Growing Up. Her performance led to her being cast in her breakthrough role as a sexy fairy in My Genie. In 2005, Fiona was voted “FHM Singapore’s Sexiest Woman of the Year”, despite never appearing in any of FHM’s issues. Love or loathe her, Fiona is considered one of the bigger stars in Singapore’s celeb-ville.

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September 24th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (186)

Parliament Sitting 17 Sep 2007
- The Void Deck: Sections 74 and 298A
- Enblocing Singapore: Parliament Passes Land Titles (Strata) (Amendment) Bill
- Enblocing Singapore: Comments on Parliamentary Debate on Amendment Bill

Democracy Now Hong Lim Park Protest March
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Some Thoughts about the Recent SDP Walk
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Foreign Interest and Foreign Interference in Singapore Politics
- sgForums: SDP march for foreign audience
- Coffee Shop Talk: What’s CSJ link with foreign activists?

Pink Issues
- Mr Wang Says So: Why Homosexuality Should Be Decriminalised in Singapore
- Personal Response to Current Affairs: Homosexuality and Politics
- The Daily Backtrack: Why 70% doesn’t matter
- All and Sundry Singapore: You’ve Got A Problem With Gays and Lesbians?

CPF & Annuities
- My Singapore News: My position, no change
- Chemical Generation Singapore: More than Marketing is Needed
- My plain sunset: Recent CPF Debate
- Aaron Ng: Government will not take investment risks on behalf of CPF members
- Leong Sze Hian, TOC: Is compulsory Longevity Insurance necessary?
- EDMW: Siew Kum Hong’s Speech on the Ministerial Statement on CPF Reforms!

Daily Discourse
- Molly Meek: Discrimination Against Straights
- Dansong: Ethnosophy, Implausible City
- Singabloodypore: The Singapore Socio-Political Blogosphere: Is it a Habermasian Public Sphere?

Life, the universe and everything
- JB Jeyaretnam’s Blog: Mr JBJ won case on his Practice Cert!
- chenmunn’s Site: Singapore’s Bid for the Youth Olympics – A Make or Break Situation
- EDMW: Some mega churches affect students adversely
- HWZ: NUS High School Hostel invaded Students’ privacy. Outrageous.

Infoblogoramus
- Martyn See: Banned film to screen in Johor Bahru

September 21st, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Jolin Tsai 蔡依林 was signed by Universal Music Taiwan at age 18, after she won first place in an MTV singing competition. Her albums enjoyed moderate success around Asia. But her big break came, courtesy of a song written for her by Jay Chou, when Sony Music signed her in 2003. Her biggest album Dancing Diva was released in 2006, and firmly set her as Taiwan’s pop princess.

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September 21st, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Parliament Sitting 17 Sep 2007
- The Legal Janitor: A step back for free speech and free inquiry
- EDMW: MP Sylvia Lim: CPF Monies a Mirage
- VR-Zone: [CNA] Foreigners not allowed to interfere in Singapore’s domestic affairs….e.g gay.
- Youtube: Parliament Speech – Sylvia Lim on CPF Part 1 Part 2
- Youtube: NMP Siew Kum Hong on CPF reform Part 1 Part 2
- Youtube: Parliament Speech – Chiam See Tong on CPF

Pink Issues
- Mr Wang Says So: Canadian Legal Expert Banned in Singapore
- Joel Tan, TOC: When saying “traditional, conservative society” doesn’t cut it anymore
- The Daily Backtrack: Misguided Honesty
- footsteps1970: The Eye of the Storm

CPF & Annuities
- Making Sense – The Free Man: CPF Lies
- The States Times: A Real Hard Sell
- HWZ: The Sham talks cock about CPF changes
- sgForums: PAP: Stop Screwing Around with Peoples’ CPF – Think Harder..

Daily Discourse
- What others Say?: When a Contradiction Isn’t Really a Contradiction? – A Study in Logical Self-Deception.
- The Kway Teow Man: On the Corporate Governance of Religious Organizations
- The Girl with Sakura: Spoilsport
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Choosing an opposition party to join?
- Singapore Angle: Bowling Alone and the Freedom From Assembly

Life, the universe and everything
- Mad, Mad World: Chinese Nationals – People We Love to Hate
- Loveless Summer: HATE ME!! I am a Chinese National!!!
- VISTA Lab: KNN… we kena censor.

Infoblogoramus
- Life As A Geek!: $130 Fine For Dropping Someone Off At Or Near The Bus Stop
- Foorprints in life: International Muay Thai Competition ’07
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: “The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ”… Must Watch!

September 20th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (17)

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Behind the scenes: Playing with the iPod touch @ Apple Store
- Sriram Krishnan Live: Mark Zuckerberg’s sister causes stir with video
- mrbrown: The Great Web Whiteout with Adblock Plus
- harmless? bananas!: why blogs matter, even when everyone’s doing it
- jacktan.org: Maple hack
- theory.isthereason: No time to blog? Why you should start your own lifestream…
- ShaunChng.com Intel to launch Penryn on Nov 12th, USB 3.0 proposed
- Ahh.. Chewww! Office 2003 Service Pack 3
- HWZ: Apple iPod Touch – A One-Hour Hands On Session
- HWZ: Preview: Sony Ericsson K770i

Tech News
- iLounge: Comments, Pics and Observations from a 5G User [iPod Touch]
- Daily Tech: Apple Locks New iPods to iTunes
- Daily Tech: RIAA Loses in Precedent-setting Case
- The Observer: The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket
- Hardspell.com: Intel C2Q 9000 (Yorkfield) and C2D 8000 (Wolfdale) Launch Dates and Specs
- PC Mag: IBM, Google take aim at Microsoft’s Office dominance

SG Biz Talk
- Who is Andrew Wee: Customer Relationship Management = Huge Long Tail Profits?

September 20th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Parliament Sitting 17 Sep 2007
- The Online Citizen: Highlights from Parliament
- Beyond SG: Minister George Yeo’s replies to Parliamentary Questions on 17 Sept 2007
- Singapore Life and Times: Shifting Track
- Andrew Loh, TOC: Subtle but significant shift in government’s stance
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech on the Ministerial Statement on CPF Reforms
- Singapore Alternatives: The Stingy Government
- Loveless Summer: Wow! Having oral and anal sex is now legal in Singapore!
- My Singapore News: Best suggestion from Lily Neo
- Enblocing Singapore: Parliamentary Responses to Collective Sale Queries
- HWZ: Official CPF changes .. and Longevity Insurance
- Coffee Shop Talk: Special Account Cut to 2.5% PA in 2009!
- HWZ: Buay tahan this MP Seng Han Thong
- Youtube: Parliament Speech – Low Thia Khiang on CPF

CPF & Annuities
- My Singapore News: A chicken and egg story
- HWZ: Those below 55 FORCED to buy Annuities

Daily Discourse
- Enblocing Singapore: Banning Enblocs on Newer Buildings
- The Itch To Write: Eric Low’s Dialogue Session
- Cowboy Caleb: NYTimes Now Free, Straits Times Online Is Not
- HWZ: Jail u 15mths with $3.x mil of “unrecoverable” cash, u want?

September 19th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Margaret Denise Quigley was born in Honolulu to an American father of French, Polish and Irish descent and a Vietnamese mother. She worked as a fashion model in Japan and Hong Kong before landing an acting role in a Chinese TV series. Her breakthrough came when she was picked to star in the HK thriller Gen-Y Cops. Her first big Hollywood role put her alongside Tom Cruise in MI-III, where she wore a drool inducing red dress which made the world sit up and notice her.

Video of her in that red dress and more pictures after the break.

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September 19th, 2007 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

The Singapore Daily congratulates all the winners of the 59th Emmy Awards.
- Comedy Series: 30 Rock [way to go Tina!]
- Drama Series: The Sopranos
- Lead Actor Comedy: Ricky Gervais, Extras
- Lead Actress Comedy: America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
- Lead Actor Drama: James Spader, Boston Legal
- Lead Actress Drama: Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
- Reality-competition Program: The Amazing Race
- Supporting Actor Comedy: Jeremy Piven, Entourage
- Supporting Actress Comedy: Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl
- Supporting Actor Drama: Terry O’Quinn, Lost
- Supporting Actress Drama: Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy
- Outsanding Variety, Music Or Comedy: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

[59th Emmys Roundup]

Democracy Now Hong Lim Park Protest March
- Singapore Boy: Join the Circus to oppose the PAP? No thanks!

Pink Issues
- la nausée: The Flaws of the Pro-Gay Position (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

Odex Protest
- Ripperstrife: Odex protest, media blackout in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Boy: Don’t let people die in our hospitals!
- nofearsingapore: Singapore’s other political parties- still alive and kicking!
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Expats find rental market insane in SIngapore!
- jeremyWRONG: Ranting Swede
- Economics Facts? Fiction?: Wages rising faster than at any time since 2000
- Property Highlights of Singapore: Will New Bond Peg End Up ‘Hurting The Old’?
- All and Sundry Singapore: Rare Article in Newspaper on Opposition
- la nausée: Lawyers’ Fees and the Affordability of Legal Services

Life, the universe and everything
- Insane Polygons: The CG Student Survival Tooltips
- fartboystinks: Razzle Dazzle Glamourous Animation Career
- Wilfrid Wong: Be HIP – What Does That Mean To You?

September 18th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Tech News
- The Independent: The Big Question: Why has Microsoft been fined, and how will this affect the consumer?
- BusinessWeek: Microsoft’s Big European Defeat: What Now?
- Times Online: Yahoo tests new social network
- News.com: AMD tries for the cycle with triple-core chip

CGS Scandal
- Sabrina: CGS: No publicity is bad publicity
- Ian: Exclusive: The CGS scandal and Conflict of Interests

SG Tech
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Stealth Updates
- Dejavu: Web hosting with an edge
- HUNGonline: Addressing the gripes with the iPod touch
- theory.isthereason: Belkin TuneSync for iPhones (leave your case on)
- On Singapore: iPhone in Singapore: A Prognosis

Gaming
- Ian: On Dota : What Dota Tells You About Your Friends. (2)
- Ian: On Dota : What Dota Tells You About Your Friends. (3)

September 18th, 2007 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Democracy Now Hong Lim Park Protest March
- The Online Citizen: TOC Breaking News: Police allow SDP march to Parliament
- The Online Citizen: Hong Lim Park protest – revisited
- News Release by UncleYap: Activists marked 16 Sept with WALK + Vigil
- HWZ: Police allow SDP march to Parliament
- Coffee Shop Talk: Five SDP supporters, members stage march

Coming Out in SG
- Yawning Bread: On Otto, part 1
- Yawning Bread: On Otto, part 2
- Song of a Reformed Headhunter: Mr. Otto Fong Comes Out (2)

MOM Employment Figures
- Leong Sze Hian, TOC: Statistics: Uniquely Singapore, F1 or F9?

Parliament Sitting 17 Sep 2007
- The Online Citizen: Highlights of questions to be asked in Parliament by MPs

CPF & Annuities
- Singapore Life and Times: Annuity Chicken and Egg

Daily Discourse
- Andrew Ong, TOC: Playing an active part as Singaporeans
- Rat in the Lab: A*STAR to open up its R&D facilities to SMEs
- The gay side of things: Being Gay: Myths & Facts.
- this lush garden within: NUS board backs down on new S/U policy under students’ pressure
- I saw love in your eyes: Why Singapore cannot let loose on censorship. And sexual ideas.
- What others say: When The ‘Collective Good’ May Not Be So ‘Good’ – A Study of Gayness.

Life, the universe and everything
- theory.isthereason: Facebook, we’ve got a problem…
- Ziggy’s Asian Adventures: Disneyland with the Death Penalty
- davienne: Things I miss about being little and innocent..
- mrbrown: Stone seats
- Sophie’s World: New Singapore Landmark

Infoblogoramus
- Rivers of Living Water: Mass Rapid Transit : The Circle Line (CCL) and the Downtown Line(Future)!
- Salary.sg: Banking and Finance Jobs Preferred

September 17th, 2007 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)