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Weekly Roundup: Week 28

Posted by singaporedaily on July 12th, 2008


Credit: Insane Polygons


Yes to Minister pay raise, no to worker wage raise
- Interpretingsg: Raising wages = Inflation [Thanks interpretingsg]
- Sgpolitics: Tharman argues against wage increases as cure for inflation
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Upgrading is NOT the way to fight inflation
- This lush garden within: Singapore’s policy makers living in the clouds
- Balderdash: ..as the saying goes, “Matilah Singapura”
- vinyarb: Finance Minister says we cannot have pay increment! sob!
- Singabloodypore: Singapore calls lawyers’ allegations over rights unfounded
- TOC: Upping wages is no cure - Tharman
- SPUG: Peasants should not ask for payrise
- Coffee Shop Talk: Tharman: wages increase = suicide
- My Car Forum: Employers should not raise salaries to help workers… it could worsen inflation
- EDMW: Employers should not raise salaries to help workers… it could worsen inflation
- EDMW: Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam talking cock again!
- Sgforums: Tharman: worker wage increase causes inflation, gov fee not
- VR-Zone: Employers should not raise salaries to help workers..
- HWZ: Finance Minister Tharman has warned that Singapore could face another round of inflation if companies increase wages to help workers

Prosperity versus individual rights. Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore
- Insane Polygons: Without Substance and Feeble
- Jacob’s Weblog: Duh
- Sgpolitics.net: “Development”, “Democracy”, and false arguments why one must come before the other
- Mr Wang Says So: The International Bar Association And Its Report on Singapore
- Winter is Coming: A Tale of Two Organisations
- IBA: Prosperity versus individual rights? Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore [PDF]

The Gospel of Harry
- Looking through the eyes of: Time and Singapore
- Sgpolitics: My response to Mr Syu Ying Kwok’s ST letter (08 July 2008)
- a blog @ Singapore: Right time for the right words
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Let PAP rule for 500 years. (And let me go)
- TOC: Straits Times Forum, is this a sick joke?
- Sam’s thoughts: Syu Insensitive
- Sam’s thoughts: The fellator, the irrumator and the rimmer

147th and falling
- Mr Wang Says So: The State and the Media and Their Embarrassingly Passionate Embrace in Singapore
- My Singapore News: What should be the role of media?
- My Sketchbook: Obey the state
- Simply Gab: The 146th: Being Charitable with Figures

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Article 14: The Wisdom of a 15 year old
- Out of my mind: The RI Lecture - Freedom of speech about freedom of speech!
- Ian On The Red Dot: The People Who Get Their Information Online May Not Be So Important For Votes. SO?
- Just Stuff: The Chimera of Freeing The Press – A Study in Change Management [Recommended]
- INsAniTY MAO’s CORNER: Speech by Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan [Thanks Abao]

The Spawn of Harry
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Local Politics and Meet the MPs Session
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Winning e hearts/minds of S’porean voters through one meet-e-people session per month

Lee vs Chee
- Mollymeek: Chee Lies & is Ungrammatical!
- Sgpolitics: Mind Your Language, Madam Yeong
- Singapore Dissident: Give me a trial or let me go NOW!

Tak Boleh Tahan Campaign
- Sgpolitics: Tak Boleh Tahan’s first casualties

Anti-G8 Solidarity Action
- Singapore Indian Voice: Anti-G8 Solidarity Action in Singapore

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- Simply Jean: Coming soon: More ERP gantries - and the rationale behind it
- Empty Vessel: To the ERP system
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Taxi Problem in the CBD

42 years - from nation to multinational
- Insane Polygons: One United People [Recommended]
- Feed Me To The Fish: Singapore Cracked Up!

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: ERP, Socialism,Capitalism, Crisis, Obama, Change [Recommended]

The Limping Man
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The manhunt that refused to go away
- Sam’s Thoughts: Mas Selamat was at my ROM

Human Rights
- Where Bears Roam Free: Walter Woon’s Stand on Human Rights

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Under the Willow Tree: Singapore’s SWFs and the 3 Behemoths of Mass Implosion [Recommended]

Housing
- HWZ: More HDB homes sold to PRs

Organ Trading
- TOC: Human organs for sale – let the donors decide
- Yawning Bread: Regulate, not ban, the sale of human organs

Cosfest 2008
- ALVINOLOGY: Cosfest 2008 - Photo Galore!

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Singapore’s Poor Law
- Singapore Peak Oil: Are Singapore’s Food Policies Sustainable?
- This lush garden within: Disgusting Singaporeans on Stomp
- Singapore Life and Times: Blame Game
- Sgpolitics: Safeguard our future. Empower our children
- Recruit Ong: 9 years & 18 strokes for a victimless crime
- Sgpolitics: Giving back to society should begin at the top
- The boy who knew too much: The amazing disappearing ERP cards
- TOC: Young and old in S’pore want more political openness
- My Singapore News: Why 2 senior ministers and 2 DPMs?
- catherinelim.sg: Overcoming doubts and stepping forth
- Mollymeek: Glass Castle and Youthquake [Thanks Elia Diodati]
- TOC: The blame game
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Of race and religion laws
- Yuhui’s Singapore Blogger: “Destroy a landmark to build an MRT station? Why Not?”

Life, the universe and everything
- Sam’s Thoughts: Famili-nation
- Yawning Bread: Thursday morning at the Novotel
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Girl Effect
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Japan and Singapore and the Homeless
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Untying The Ping.sg Knot
- Around the World in 180 Days: Day 145. Singapore, Day 146. More Singapore
- Empty Vessel: Visual Literacy: Fonts Part II of II
- the(new)mediaslut: RecordTV sues Mediacorp for threats
- Bitchtalk: Remember the ’90s?
- A L V I N O L O G Y: AntiStomp - We Stomp the Stompers
- Rambling Librarian: What does it mean by “porting Creative Commons to Singapore”?
- ringisei: Thank you for your suggestion
- Mindblogging Stuff: 10 reflections in life

Infoblogoramus
- a blog @ Singapore: WP Youth Wing: YouthQuake 3
- e pur si muove: New webzine: Glass Castle
- My Thoughts..: NRIC & FIN Number Suffix Checker
- Siew Kum Hong: The ThinkBox by AWARE presents “Sex, Power and Office Politics”
- Tribolum: Gothere.sg Gets It

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