Weekly Roundup: Week 35
Parliament 26 Aug 2008
- Sgpolitics.net: Parliamentary Snapshots [26 Aug] [27 Aug]
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech on “Parliamentary Elections”: 27 August 2008
- Workers’ Party @ Parliament (Sitting Date: 21 May 2007): Police Coast Guard, Police Officers Killed In The Course Of Duty, SAF (Amendment) Bill, Remuneration Of Directors, Etc
- Sgpolitics: Sylvia Lim opposed motion to revise Parliamentary Elections Act because the motion sought to entrench GRCs
- groundnotes: The Stillbirth of Democracy in Singapore Parliament [Recommended]
- Workers’ Party @ Parliament: Section 41A Of The Employment Act, GST (Amendment) Bill
Jurong By-elections
- TOC: Singaporeans want by-election in Jurong GRC [Thanks mr.udders]
- Winter Is Coming: Vote MP = Vote PAP? and the Presumption of Innocence
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: LeeHsienLoong says each of our votes is more for the political party and less so for the individual MP-candidate
- Simply Inconceivable: Bye bye by-elections [Recommended]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: GRC celebrates our racial harmony..
- My sketchbook: Can you hear us?
- Sam’s Alfresco Coffee: Today: Is there a need for by-election in Singapore?
Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Simply Jean: Ban lifted; now you can talk all you want… almost
- The Void Deck: The All New Old Speakers’ Corner
- Sgpolitics.net: Liberalization of Speaker’s Corner: Let’s see whether the authorities truly use a “light touch”
- Yawning Bread: The first fruits of civil disobedience [Recommended]
- Desparatebeep: Protest
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Outdoor demonstrations at Hong Lim Park no enough? [Recommended]
- Simply Gab: Tokens or Lemonade
- Simply Inconceivable: Shrewd Politics 101: Make Token Concessions
- My sketchbook: Virgin step at Speakers’ corner
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: The Condescension of a Ruler towards his Peasants
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Speakers’ Corner or speakers cornered?
National Day Rally 2008
- Right up your alley: Dear stupid Singaporeans, NOBODY is telling you to wash the dishes lah!
- My Sketchbook: Easing of political films
- TOC: Of concessions and tokenism, worrying trends in policy making
- TOC: Don’t be a stupid cupid
- Mr Brown: New media: This government doesn’t get it
- Carpe Diem: Only Fruitcakes demonstrate
Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- Singapore Life and Times: Finding the Equilibrium
- The Rot Within: Twisting Words
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Baby Package 2008
- Sgpolitics.net: Foreign workers DO depress local pay at the lower end of the salary scale
- Simply Inconceivable : Simplistic to Simply Say its Simplistic
A Sliver from Beijing
- TOC: Ms Lee Bee Wah: A new broom sweeps indiscriminately
- nofearSingapore: Table Tennis: STTA president’s puzzling action
- TOC: I am not celebrating [Recommended]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How many people in Jamaica?
- TOC: Bloggers up in arms over Lee Bee Wah’s actions
- Sgpolitics.net: Lee Bee Wah’s flip-flopping is startling
- Simply Inconceivable: Should we sack the coach? The irrelevant question
- Empty Vessel: Being media-savvy
- My sketchbook: Party pooper
- The fire in my life: Go.. Going… Gone.. [Thanks ecko as]
- XTRALICIOUS: Missing – Integrity
- HWZ: Sports Mis-management Saga Continues..
- Sgclub: Winning an olympic medal via foreign imports. Is it something to be proud of?
- SPUG: China FT thinks he damned can
- SPUG: Win Liao… Tio Sack…
Strangers in a Strange Land
- Simply Inconceivable: The Foreign Talent Irony
- Just stuff: The Foreignness of Foreigners in our Midst – A Study in the FT hubris
Burma Protests
- Yawning Bread: Singapore shows Burmese dissidents the door
- Sgpolitics: Burmese citizens hold press conference on being denied visa renewals in Singapore
- Singapore Indian Voice: Burmese activists hold press conference on being denied visa renewals in Singapore
- SgPolitics: Flip flop by the police: Are Burmese activists in Singapore keeping within the law or not?
Fixating the Opposition
- Young PAP Blog: The Ever Redundant Opposition
Lee vs Nair
- Singapore Dissident: Hanging in there, the Judges Belinda Ang, blogging case and Lai Sue Chiu EMail case
Lee vs FEER
- Singabloodypore: Singapore PM raises stakes in FEER defamation case
GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- EastStop: Temasek – A closed-end sovereign wealth fund?
- Singapore Complain Hub: Singapore’s Temasek doubles profit, fears contagion
Our 147th|151st Press
- Simply Jean: Of EZ link cards, $100 million investments and my $5 deposit
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Cepas-compliant ezlink card ‘test-ride’ volunteers WANTED or UNWANTED? [1] [2]
ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Singapore’s Public Transport
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Profit drive SMRT to EXCEL….!
Inflation
- Recruit Ong: Playing with numbers
Education
- the boy who knew too much: Of cheers and jeers in the classroom
Healthcare
- The Alternative ‘HPB’: Why is ST so anti-biomedical treatment for autism?
Domestic Helper Issues
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Maids redux
Daily Discourse
- Desparatebeep: Irony and Sarcasm
- Singapore Complain Hub: US sub could have leaked radiation in Singapore: govt
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Olympic medal, Singaporean and typical Singaporean mentality
- Singapore Dino: Old enough to run business but not “mature” enough to vote?
- Mr Brown: More changing headlines: Inflation hits poor harder
- Mr Wang Says So: The Law Minister Agrees With Mr Wang
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Good Graces in the Olympics
- SGpolitics: Dr Lily Neo speaks out vociferously over aid for poorest households
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Going into recession….AGAIN!
- The Daily Backtrack: For lack of databases
- Simply Jean: Of dual citizenship, national service, exemptions and your CPF money
- Feed Me To The Fish: Can a Person or a Government ‘not corrupted’ in law be ‘corrupted’ in fact?
- The Lady Melissa: Ignoble Nobles
- TOC: One country two systems
- hopei: wah lan eh, this kind of thing also do
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Why Not?
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Donating back to NUS: here’s how
- Sgpolitics: K. Shanmugam’s remarks on acquittals in law could open a pandora’s box
- From the ground Up: Put the ‘eco’ back in ‘economics’
- Renewables Report: Part 3: Singapore’s uncertain energy policy
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Female, a lesser creature than male?
- Singapore Indian Voice: Tell Singapore Not to Import Live Dolphins
Life, the universe and everything
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Beijing Paralympic 2008: The Details
- Nomadism: Reading the “Words” right
- Adventures and random brain waves: Blogger’s block
- Simply Jean: Free AirAsia tickets!
- Mr Wang Says So: Life As A Competition
- The Moley Prophet: Free Market?
- A L V I N O L O G Y :Naming the New Singapore University
- Cooler Insights: I Got a Free Bus Ride!! [b thinks: If Great Eastern can, why can't SBS and SMRT?]
- Mr Wang Says So: Challenging Moments in Parenthood
- A L V I N O L O G Y: TODAY online kena Hacked?
Infoblogoramus
- No “partisan stuff” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Top 100 Political Videos (that are likely to be banned in Singapore)
- Notes from Serangoon Road: A ’secret’ screening
- Stunned by Stone: Field Report on Singapore International Jewellery Show 2008 [Thanks ecko]
- TOC: Inflation forum with experts
August 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
To the man, they used to call to Darkness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1XPLI5OTU&feature=related
With all our love
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