The Singapore Daily

“Has the gay community awoken a sleeping giant?
Solo Bear

“Is human rights a threat to political stability or is political stability a threat to human rights?”
Eugene Chew

“Is civil disobedience as a strategy blunted?”
Au Waipang

“It is laughable the kind of somersaults the minister and his MPs had to perform in Parliament to justify this law.”
Gerald Giam

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.

Takeover of AWARE
- Glass Castle: Not Secular Feminists But Sectarian Fundamentalists: And They’ll Come For You Too [Recommended]
- Mathia Lee: The AWARE AGM 2009 — my personal take: beware of ST
- Where Bears Roam Free: Gays now facing a backlash from their own doing?
- Unwired Precipitations: Pharaohs
- Yawning Bread: From now on, be wary of AWARE
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “Aggressive takeover” at AWARE?
- The Legal Janitor: Christian fundamentalists love Big Government
- Leona’s Blog: Why recent events at Aware concern all of us
- Fresh Brainz: The Same Thing We Do Every Night, Pinky
- ashke’s blog: Fundies in Singapore take over Women’s Group
- nagil: The crusade has begun..
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why AWARE was ‘taken over’..
- Musings: Anti-gay lobby hijacks AWARE
- Writing-Yoga-Living: The Borg take over AWARE at AGM
- bread crumbs and candy cottage: Coup D’etat (or Organized Crime) of Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
- FOOD fuels me to talk..: Aware takeover: great news!
- Singaporean Skeptic: Beware of AWARE!
- Angry Doctor: Support Love
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Mrs Claire Nazar, Charlotte Wong Hock Soon, Jenica Chua Chor Ping, Sally Ang Koon Hian, Maureen Ong Lee Keang, Irene Yee Khor Quin, Peggy Leong Pek Kay, Angela Thiang Pei Yun, Dr Alan Chin Yew Liang
- The Wayang Party: What netizens can learn from the AWARE incident to keep our net free and independent
- Sam’s Thoughts: Are you aware of AWARE?
- Fridae: Anti-gay Christian fundamentalists hijack Singapore’s women’s group
- Blowing Wind Gay Forum: Be Careful Gays, Aware Has Already Been Taken Over By People U Do Not Wish To Be In Power
- Sgpolitics.net: More awareness needed about the “leadership grab” in AWARE [Recommended]
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Chemical Generation Singapore
- Sam’s Thoughts: MediaWARE
- The Itch To write: Could this had been a conspiracy or pure coincidence?
- Sam’s thoughts: The Straits Times needs some ‘queer’
- Simply Jean: Be aware?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Protecting a democratic institution
- Glass Castle Blog: Anti-LGBTQ is anti-feminist
- Musings : Some comments on the Aware thing.
- Fresh Brainz: Update: AWARE Exco Remains Silent
- TOC: 150 call for vote of no confidence
- Fresh Brainz: Update: Josie Lau Is AWARE’s New President
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Statement from the New AWARE Team
- Illusio: AWARE: a civil society primer
- Blackilocks Events: Aware of Aware
- Mathia Lee: AWARE AGM 2009 : Clarifications
- Salt * Wet * Fish: AWAREness in our midst
- Majulah!: The New Adventures of Josie and the Pussycats
- Singapore Life and Times: Toasted
- The Wayang Party: Should the old guard of AWARE just accept defeat and bow out gracefully?
- TOC: DBS “disappointed” with Josie Lau’s disregard for staff Code of Conduct
- The Wayang Party: Double standards of DBS: why staff is allowed to join PAP as MP but not AWARE as Council member?
- geraldgiam.sg: Staff-in-confidence matters should be kept that way, DBS
- Musings: Josie and DBS’s HR Policy
- The Wayang Party: More questions raised over PAP MP Dr Ong Seh Hong’s explanation of the $60,000 Ren Ci loan and GIC housing loan
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Josie Lau Meng Lee

Public Order Bill
- geraldgiam.sg: 1 person constitutes an assembly? It’s an abuse of the word: WP chairman [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics: Parliament passes the Public Order Act of 2009
- TOC: Muzzling the madding crowd [Recommended]
- Yaw Shin Leong: Opposing the Public Order Bill
- Cavalierio: Shame Sham Shanmugam
- Balderdash: MPs dissent on the Public Order act
- In God We Trust: Public Order Act [Recommended]
- actionslavehero: Public Order = Don’t Naughty Ah
- Gimme Some Truth!: Public Order Act provides scant protection for responsible citizens [Thanks Alastair]
- Singabloodypore: Singapore: A nervous Government Lashes Out
- My sketchbook: Public order bill-Newer, bigger, better
- Sgpolitics: Stop misleading the public on the Public Order Act
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: More Laws for Public Order..
- running legs: Public Order Act: Hail BB?
- Jacob’s Weblog: Passing of Public Order Bill: ‘We, the citizens of Singapore’ are not free from blame
- The Wayang Party: Political space further limited with new Public Order Act
- TOC: Opposing Public Order Act [Vids]
- Loo Zihan: W
- Singapore Social Activist: The Myth of the Violent Singaporean Protestor
- Yawning Bread: Reinforcing containment [Recommended]

General Elections 2009
- Sgpolitics: Kenneth Jeyaretnam can bring much needed economics expertise to Reform Party
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Swinging Reform Party to the Center – Kenneth Jeyaratnam enters the political fray [Recommended]
- TOC: TOC Interview: Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s debut
- My Little Corner: Probably no elections until end 2010
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Singaporeans can kiss elections goodbye
- My Singapore News: Of power, freedom and money

The Gospel of Harry
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore a multiracial meritocracy
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Singapore, a First World country?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Senile old man
- My Sketchbook: We are First world!
- Bryan Caplan: Singapore’s Independence: What Was the Point?

Dialects are for Stupids
- ed’sperience: Why the ‘Speak Mandarin’, ‘Appreciate Chinese Culture’ Campaign in Singapore is a monumental mistake [Recommended]

Charity/Church Leaders Get Rich r Die Tryin
- The Kent Ridge Common: Spiritually or materially rich?
- The Lycan Times: Limit These Reserves!
- The Wayang Party: $60,000 loan from Ren Ci to PAP MP Ong Seh Hong sparked furore in cyberspace

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Mr Wang Says So: Aren’t They Quick to Change Their Headlines?
- The Wayang Party: Old and new citizens do not get equal chance in Singapore
- My Thoughts..: New And Old Citizens The Same? [Thanks Ganga]

Recession
- TOC: Bold gesture from the government needed in this time of crisis [Recommended]
- Singapore Life and Times: Paradox of recession
- TOC: An alternative to penalising labour
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Good Tactics, Bad Strategy
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Slight devaluation to keep foreign money in Singapore banks
- Lancaster Eagle Gazette: The end of Asia’s ‘export-led’ development has begun

Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: That $658K HDB Flat..

We Dont Need No Regulation
- Littlespeck: PAP blogs back
- The Kent Ridge Common: The dissenting civil servant and the online media

Healthcare
- Mathia Lee: Pre-Diabetes: A lack of Asian – relevant advice

National Service
- The Kent Ridge Common: National Service and the open door policy
- The Kent Ridge Common: Policies for greater equity?

Daily Discourse
- The Kent Ridge Common: A military presence in enterprise development
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Maid Abuse : Singapore’s Shame..
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Mass Food Poisoning Proves Hawker Centers Have Room For Improvement
- The Wayang Party: Our bloated defence budget: What is the perceived threat?
- TOC: 154 casualties. 48 hospitalized. 2 deaths. 122 rats. All the rojak man’s fault?
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Mass Food Poisoning Proves Hawker Centers Have Room For Improvement [Thanks SFP]
- Singapore Kopi Tok: The Year of Online News Competition?
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Parameswara’s Weekly Round-Up (29 March to 4 April 09) [Thanks Seelan]
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Review of the public sector
- TOC: Will S’poreans speak up for others?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Of migration and the Singaporean diaspora
- Singaporean Skeptic: Even PRC students get better treatment than Singaporean students in the USA!
- Civic Advocator: Taser stun guns at APEC Singapore?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Surprise! Singapore works with countries serious about knowledge transfer

Life, the universe and everything
- Beyond SG: Aborted Summit in Pattaya
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: ST Online Forum: “Inappropriate to name play The Final Solution”
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: 15 Must-See Sights in Google Earth
- Midnight Monkey Monitor: Eating “Trash”
- For Want of a Better Title: Every Geeks Fantasy… Star Wars Geek anyway
- The New York Crank: Gum-chewers, Singapore, and hanging offenses. Listen carefully to this, you gum chewing b*st#rds! [Thanks CelluloidReality]
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Crossroads, a new year, and life in Singapore
- Sam’s thoughts: May 2006 song: Let It Be, Singapore politics in 2006
- ringisei: If a resident made a complaint but not in writing
- Gimme Some Truth!: Meet Singapore’s new mascot for the Asian Youth Games!
- AngryAngMo: The 5 Best Flea Markets In Singapore
- Singapore Sports Fan: Pole vaulter Sean Lim breaks first record of National Schools Track and Field Championships [Thanks SSF]
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: Never Heard Before VIEWS on SINGAPORE by Taiwanese. Interesting.
- Webs@Work: Do Pulitzer Prizes Have A Future?

Now Showing
- vinyarb: Knowing – movie review
- Balderdash: Members Only, a play I watched last night

Infoblogaramous
- Ong Jiin Joo: GridAsia 2009, 13-17 April, Suntec
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: The Creative Crew April 2009 Meet Up
- a blog day’s work: WP Youth Wing: YouthQuake 5
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Delectable Stockalicious Portfolio Analysis Tool
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Event: Managing Your Business On A Shoestring Budget – 29 Apr

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