The Singapore Daily

“Please note that the [22% electricity tariff] increase is only affecting HOUSEHOLDS. Businesses do not bare this. Why the discrimination?”
Comment to Reply to SP Services: Don’t shoot the messenger

“I find it funny, in a way, that LKY should be so concerned to create brighter people in Singapore. You see, from our own experience, we have learnt that Singapore doesn’t do all that is necessary to look after the bright citizens it DOES have.”
Valentine Cawley

“No! Emphatically not! Whether in writing news stories or features, properly trained journalists check and double-check their facts, set these in context, work in relevant background information, insist on objectivity and balance, organise their material so their account flows smoothly and logically, and use temperate language unless there is a powerful reason to resort to strong words. Even in offering views, they ensure that the opinions expressed are based on fact..”
Leslie Fong, SPH, when asked if bloggers can be journalists.

“If we protect consumer’s interest, people would want to put their money with us and use our fund managers.”
palmist

Is MAS being short sighted in trying to protect bank profits in the minibond debacle? What is the damage done to our plans of being a financial hub in the long run, when FI interests are put above investors’? If I’m a high net worth individual you can be sure that I will be moving my investments to places that will protect me from mis-selling (does anyone really believe it wasn’t?)…High net worth individuals with legit money anyways!

Recommended reads for the week after the break.

High Notes and Minibombs
- Tan Kin Lian: High Notes Investor Group - Press release 30 Oct 08
- Tan Kin Lian: Speaker’s Corner 1 November 2008 - Speech Vid[1][2]
- The Wayang Party Club: Mr Goh Meng Seng’s speech at Hong Lim Park on 1 Nov 2008 [Vid]
- Sgpolitics: Saturday rallies continue at Speaker’s Corner
- The Wayang Party Club: Angry investors ponder legal action, crowd swells at Hong Lim Park. More photos.
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Spunky Retiree hammers DBS..
- Sgpolitics: Presence of disclaimers on Lehman-linked structured products prospectuses are a poor excuse at absolving financial institutions from blame
- Singapore Alternatives: “Exploiting People’s Misery”
- an aberration in pronunciation: Minibonds short term gain long term pain ?[Recommended]
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 20 October 2008: Sale of Structured Financial Products
- My sketchbook: When they(town councils) place the wrong bets..
- Singapore Skeptic: Boycott as a form of civil disobedience?
- Wayang Party Club: DBS standard letter of rejection to investors
- Tan Kin Lian: Fortnightly Meetings at Speaker’s Corner on Structured Products
- Tan Kin Lian: Keep sadness and hatred to themselves
- Wayang Party Club:Tempers frayed during DBS last dialogue with investors
- Wayang Party Club: Where are the opposition politicians during the minibond fiasco?
- Think For Me Singapore: Towing the party line [Thanks Daniel]
- Wayang Party Club: Let’s exert pressure on PAP Town Councils to open their account books
- Tan Kin Lian: Is mis-selling a market misconduct?
- Tan Kin Lian: Minibond Saga in better explained form
- EastStop: Equity destructors..

Obama wins US Presidential Elections
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Implications of the US election on Singapore
- groundnotes: Between Ordinary and Extraordinary: America and Singapore
- theory.isthereason: theorycast.49: The U.S. Election 2008 Special
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: American Politics: Obama Elected!
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Significance of Barack Hussein Obama as the 1st Black and 44th President of The United States of America
- Empty Vessel: Hope prevails
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Obama Will Need Time
- The Itch to Write: It’s official, the new President of the United States - Barack Obama
- Singapore Alternatives: The New Dawn of Young Era of CHANGE
- nofearSingapore: America dares to dream - we prefer half-truths
- News Release by UncleYap: I am afraid I can not congratulate Obama
- Ong Jiin Joo: The World Celebrates the End of the American Civil War
- Sgpolitics.net: It’s time to awaken the electorate to the winds of change
- Sgpolitics.net: Change and America’s new president
- TOC: Awaiting Singapore’s moment of change
- Siew Kum Hong: Yes, we can
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Obama Wins U.S. Presidency
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Obama win: A win for money, message and Net
- Anonymous_X: Barack Obama Cartoons (NSFW if you laugh too loud…)
- TOC: Awaiting Singapore’s moment of change
- Wayangparty Club: Why Obama will never be elected in Singapore
- nofearSingapore: America dares to dream - we prefer half-truths
- Wayangparty Club: MM Lee forgot he was once an ‘Obama’ of Singapore [Recommended]
- a writer’s blog: The masked socialist model of PAP
- Groundnotes: Change we can eat! [Recommended]
- everyday’s life in a snapshot: The contrast between Singapore and America’s politicians
- a blog day’s work: A change in government marking a change in society
- Wayangparty Club: Response of a Singapore girl and a student from India on Obama’s win [Vid]
- Cooler Insights: Obama’s Win a Victory for Social Media?

Financial Crisis
- Wayangparty Club: SM Goh asks Singaporeans to spend more to prevent economy from going into recession
- the(new)mediaslut: Auditor for Las Vegas Sands concern

Poly Student Transport Fare Petition
- TOC: Poly students want fairer transport fares
- Molly Meek: Petition for Fairer Fares for Tertiary Students Needs Clarification
- That Newfangled, Abominable, Heathenish Liquor: Fairer fair fares?
- TOC: Poly students take petition drive to Bugis Junction this Saturday

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik: TBT Trial - 5th and 6th days
- Jacob’s Weblog: Contempt of court trials begin today; James Cook University suspends John Tan
- TOC: The Tak Boleh Tahan protest case
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Wall Street Journal article that criticised MM Lee
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: S’pore’s most one-sided court case since dangerous kangaroos were seen on t-shirts
- Jacob’s Weblog: A jaw-dropping, nearly-fell-off-the-chair moment
- Singabloodypore: Wall Street Journal Hits Back
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: The Trial Begins - Part 3 - More objection..More Irrelevant

Power to Cost the People
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why it is hard for the PAP govt to do the right thing.. [Recommended]
- Tan Kin Lian: Reply to SP Services: Don’t shoot the messenger

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Itch To Write: They are taking up jobs that Singaporeans want & can do too!
- Molly Meek: The Bimbo’s Guide to Being Simplistic
- Wayang Party Club: PAP leaders welcome more foreigners for our “national” interest!
- dancingredheels: on the foreign dorm issue

Gahmen to pass law to Trade Singaporean Organs
- Mr Wang Says So: Money for a Kidney and a Life
- My sketchbook: How much to pay an organ donor?

The Right To Choose Death
- groundnotes: Advanced Medical Directives and the Rhetoric of Moralism
- TOC: Should the state let me choose how and when I die?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Yawning Bread: Bus commuters caught in terminology jam [Recommended]
- mrbrown: What drives our train strategy

Gospel of Harry: Marry Graduates Good, Marry Non-Graduates Bad
- The boy who knew too much: Lee Kuan Yew on Assortative Mating

SPH vs BLoggers
- TOC: The war between bloggers and journalists rages on

Pink Issues
- Used Brains For Sale: Sayoni Survey Report 2008

Parliament 25 Aug 2008
- Siew Kum Hong: Speech on Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill: 25 August 2008

Daily Discourse
- Gerald Giam: The fear of the opposition
- Empty Vessel: SAF goes Guano Green
- Sgpolitics: Straits Times desperately tries to repair MP Lee Bee Wah’s public image
- My Singapore News: Selling Alaska
- Coming up for air: Singapore Government Screw-Ups
- TOC: Inflation projections – a moving target
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Our history is expendable: historic Singapore River flows no more, thanks to the Marina Barrage! [Recommended]
- Siew Kum Hong: OPQ 21 October 2008: Recent Deaths of National Servicemen
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Comments on Gomez’s ‘Online Opposition in Singapore’
- TOC: Rethinking welfare
- The boy who knew too much: Nuclear Power in Singapore
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Daily Discourse - Singapore Taxi Drivers
- Mr Wang Says So: Reality Has Many Dimensions. Which One Are You In?
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Chaplin Catches It Pretty Well
- The boy who knew too much: How old is democracy?

Life, the universe and everything
- My sketchbook: Process
- Pedal! Damn it!: Thailand to Singapore, via East Coast of Malaysia, Ride
- Stunned by Stone: Exclusive Report and Photos from Jewelfest 2008 [Thanks ecko]
- AsiaIsGreen: Photos of Marina Barrage
- Beautiful Monster: Theatre crit in Singapore is so bad
- thegreatsze: God’s Debris

Akan Datang
- ALVINOLOGY: Cape No. 7 (海角七號)

EPL Talk
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: EPL this Month

Infoblogaramous
- Aussie Pete: Expats Inside Out: Integrating into the Local Community
- Otterman speaks: AVA’s Responsible Pet Ownership Roadshow 2008