Our deepest condolences to the family of Ms Lo Hoei Yen

“Joke has it that PAP gives you a drumstick but will take back a whole chicken from you. With what’s been happening lately, it’s more like they stole your whole chicken farm [raising the cost of living in every and any way possible while paying themselves million dollars salary] and feed you chicken feet and neck when you complain or beg for sustenance to survive [Mdm Lim's public assistance of $330].”
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“When asked if town councils might lose more money from their other investments, Dr Teo said that he did not have the details of their investments and declined comment about his town council, Holland-Bukit Panjang”
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Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- The Lionheart: A Call for Action

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana [Credit to vinyarb for the title]
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker’s Corner 5 p.m. Sat 29 Nov
- TOC: Interview with investor who lost $150,000
- Voices.Sg: Monster Dogs, Broken Pipes, and Political Plumbers [Thanks Stanislaus]
- Wayang Party: Remembering the last two ‘presidential casualties’ - Ong Teng Cheong and Andrew Kwan
- Sgpolitics.net: Mr Tan Kin Lian offers an apology to Dr Chee and sister
- Wayang Party: Is Tan Kin Lian posturing to reach out to the opposition camp?
- The Void Deck: Tan Kin Lian as President: Change we can believe in?

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: We are all helping the PAP

Fixing the Opposition
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Beyond Sintercom: Not My SDP, The Online Citizen, The Wayang Party Club

Recession
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: More Help Needed
- Tan Kin Lian: Bonus likely to remain low

Freedom, Choice and a place for my Voice
- Sgpolitics.net: 60 years of UDHR and ISA
- Jacob’s Weblog: Singapore’s embattled human rights lawyer

Power to Cost the People
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Crude, EMA, SP and Me

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Kangaroo T-Shirts and the Established Pecking Order

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Tan Wen Yi - The CCA Suicide
- Singapore Enquirer: Are Singaporeans ready for change?
- My sketchbook: Our government are with us in bad times
- groundnotes: The Comfort of False Dilemmas [Thanks Mr. Udders]
- Gerald Giam: Thailand’s protestors is subverting democracy

Life, the universe and everything
- Angry Angmo: 10 Best Things To Do When Being Sick In Singapore [Thanks Florian]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: PICTURES: When ANIME Fansubs’ Translations goes WRONG!
- Aussie Pete: James Bond’s Latest Girl, Olga - Up Close and Personal

For daily news summary and CNA headlines, please visit The Singapore Enquirer

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Kana Tsugihara (次原かな) is a popular model and gravure idol who has appeared in various magazines, event promotions and TV advertisements. She launched the Xbox: 360 in Japan. More pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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One-Party to Rule Us All [Editor's note: The LHY might not be that LHY]
- Sgpolitics.net: Continued one-party rule by PAP or multi-party democracy?
- The Singapore Talkshop: To be strong and incompetent [Thanks Alex]

Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- TOC: Town councils’ funds - Teo Ho Pin responds
- Wayang Party: Teo Ho Pin’s “reassurance” is hardly reassuring
- Wayang Party: Tanjong Pagar GRC resident writes in to Town Council to request for full disclosure of information

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana [Credit to vinyarb for the title]
- Singapore Alternatives: Synthetic CDOs
- TOC: 100,000 signatures so more people will step forward
- Wayang Party: More photos from minibond rally at Hong Lim Park, 15 Nov 2008

PAP Ministars, Get Rich or Die Tryin
- musings: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
- Think For Me, Singapore: Was Obama speaking to the Singapore government?

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: What is WORRYING about GIC & Temasek Losses!

Recession
- TheSuffocate: Uncle Sam the White Knight

Lee vs Chee
- Jacob’s Weblog: Persecution and prosecution of activists continue

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Siew Kum Hong: WPQ 17 November 2008: Foreign Workers on Special Passes

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Enquirer: Interview with 2 Public Assistance (PA) holders: Is S$330 a month enough?
- Feed Me To The Fish: We live, we learn
- Library of Economics and Liberty: Singapore’s Policy Secret: Economic Literacy, Deference, or Resignation? [Thanks Bernard]
- Library of Economics and Liberty: Singapore: Where Do I Start? [Thanks Bernard]
- Choosing my own adventure: PSB-approved doesn’t mean safer

Life, the universe and everything
- Glass Castle Blog: DBS: Don’t Support Focus on the Family
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Enter the MATRIX with Secret Command Execution in Wordpress 2.6 and 2.7 betas! Try it Today!
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Browhaus tribute to George W. Bush’s legacy

Infoblogaramous
- Otterman speaks: Also at Sungei Buloh on the 15th Anniversary weekend - 2 Days of Shutterspeed Action with Nature
- Cooler Insights: Dim Sum Dollies at National Museum
- Majulah Singapura: DARK FRIDAY Dec5: Goth/EBM/Industrial Night feat (ANGELSPIT) DestroyX & ZooG

- VR-Zone: SITEX 2008 Floor Plan
- VR-Zone: SITEX 2008 Early Bird Watch
- HWZ: SITEX 2008 Preview
- VR-Zone: SITEX 2008: The Preview
- CNET Asia: SITEX 2008

Laptops
- PC Dreams Laptop promotion, Lenovo trade in promo
- Zepto Promotions
- Lenovo @ Sitex!
- Sony Viao offers [PDF]
- MSI SITEX Notebook promo
- ASUS Notebooks & PDAs SITEX Promos
- LG Notebooks & Netbook
- (SITEX) Compaq Laptops And Desktop Starting From $999
- DELL laptops at SITEX
- Gigabyte SITEX Promo - M912X Netbook Special
- ASUS Eee PC & EeeBox SITEX Offers
- HP Mini 1000
- Netbooks comparison

LCD TVs and Monitors
- Sony Bravia, Home Theatre offers [PDF]
- Samsung
- Sharp
- JVC
- Panasonic
- Pioneer
- LG LCD Monitors Pricing @ SITEX
- Samsung LCD Monitors
- Philips 240PW9EB LCD Monitor
- 24″ LCD Monitor [18 models compared]

Home Theatre
- Pioneer
- Sony Projector offers [PDF]
- Benq projectors

Audio
- Sony Walkman offers [PDF]
- Sony Headphone offers [PDF]
- Creative
- Shiro
- [Speakers & Portable HDD] Offers from IMATION & TDK

Digital Cameras
- Sony Cybershot offers [PDF]
- Sony Handycam offers [PDF]
- Sony DSLR [PDF]

Peripherals
- A4Tech SITEX Promo Flyers
- AGenuine Linksys Pre SITEX Show Price
- D-Link Special Hot Deals @ SITEX
- Linksys @ SITEX Flyers
- Kaira @ SITEX - XFX, Logitech, Netgear & Freecom
- Microsoft Keyboard and Mice
- Epson Stylus Printers

Mobile Phones
- Sony Ericsson offers [PDF]
- ASUS

Manufacturers / Misc
- Acer @ SITEX Promotions
- BenQ Star Buy @ SITEX 2008
- AC Ryan SITEX Promo Flyers
- Sony PS3 offers [PDF]
- Starhub Maxonline promo

One-Party to Rule Us All [Editor's note: The LHY might not be that LHY]
- Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow: Further arguments on a one-party state
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Li Hongyi and his ST letter
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Mr Li writes to ST Forum; commenting as a Singaporean or Singapore’Lee’ian?
- Sgpolitics.net: Logic favours two party system; Governments better off with checks and balances (ST letters in response to Dr Tan Wu Meng)

Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- Mindblogging Stuff: Be thankful
- TOC: Accounting for town councils’ investments - do your part

High Notes and Minibombs: From Hong Lim to Istana [Credit to vinyarb for the title]
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Suggestion: how to approach legal action
- Where Bears Roam Free: Elected President, MP or consumer rights activist?
- Wayangparty Club: Roundtable discussion: Tan Kin Lian’s bid for presidency - how far will he go?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Why He Should Not Run
- My sketchbook: Tan kin lian’s christmas list

PAP Ministars, Get Rich or Die Tryin
- Singapore Life and Times: Follow the porridge
- TOC: Kudos to Govt for pay cut and deferment
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Too Much Info
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse - Pay Cut

Recession
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore worried about money flowing overseas

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics: My response to the TOC article “SDP: Misunderstood, misguided or misaligned?”
- vinyarb: I want to complain about you to me

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- Wayangparty Club: Hella lots of propaganda spinning from the state media lately !!

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 21 October 2008: Employment of Foreign Workers Without Jobs

Daily Discourse
- Wayangparty Club: Life transformer: Man works 7 days a week to feed family of 7
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: singapore armed forces pay cut too?
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: The Myth of The Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: Coping with joblessness: A personal account
- Military Life: Youtube your way through the Singapore Armed Forces
- The fire in my life: Singapore Mint showing signs of inflation?
- Toadjuice… off the blender: News from the Crapper - Returning of Food Trays
- Singapore Agnes Tan: Bargain for the past few days

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