Weekly Roundup: Week 29
“..our National Identity [can] not be forged simply by singing nationalistic songs once every year during National Day.”
Goh Meng Seng
“The govt has created a system in which we can never establish a minimum wage….because of the sheer number of people working at income levels that are so low relative to cost of living..”
LuckySingaporean
“My boys were shocked to realise that NS is a rite of passage where they will be officially subjected to bullying, shouting and cursing..”
Wee Hua Boey
“Seriously, if you want an organisation to champion cervix cancer awareness, look to the Singapore Armed Forces. They are obsessed with female genitalia as if their masculinity depended on it.”
Sam Ho
“..this is oddly reminiscent of claims that in Singapore there is Freedom of Speech – just no Freedom after Speech..”
Agagooga
This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
9 NMPs Appointed
- The Lionheart: Taking A Stand [Recommended]
- TOC: 5 out of 9 new NMPs list MM Lee as their “favourite politician”
- the kent ridge common: NMP: Maintain status quo to make up numbers or provide real alternative views?
- Today In Singapore: NMPs To Shut Up And Sit Down
- TOC: “Non-partisan” NMPs? Did we miss something?
- The Sketch Times: The New Wave of NMPs
- Sgpolitics.net: New NMP Calvin Cheng’s reply to TODAY betrays his lack of sense of accountability and political acumen
- The Singapore Enquirer: A look at the new batch of NMPS
- the kent ridge common: In Siew we trust
Auditor-General Report 2008/09
- geraldgiam.sg: Auditor-General’s report
- Wayang Party: Why wasn’t Temasek and GIC’s accounts audited by the Auditor-General?
- Sgpolitics.net: Civil servants rapped for sloppiness
- Today In Singapore: More Lapses In Accountability
- Master Of The Obvious: Funding discrepancies exposed in report by AG raises ire
Opposition Wards Not Eligible for the Lift Upgrading
- Sam’s thoughts: Grace Fu Fa-La-La-La Upgra-da Dumba Dee Doo Dah
- My sketchbook: Opposition gets upgrading
- Article 14: Pork Barrel Politics: Good or Bad?
Recession
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Something unusual in this recession..
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The Truth about Jobs, Jobs, Jobs…
- TOC: Recession forces MINDs to cut “allowances” paid to disabled
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Up, up and away, Singapore
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Spring is Here
- Singaporean Skeptic: 20% recovery is nothing to brag about.
- TOC: Flip-flop on government’s position?
- Wayang Party: Record private home sales: a boom or bomb in the making?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: New Singapore wheeze to help banks boost liquidity
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Something unusual about this recession Part 2.
- TOC: MAS suffers net loss of over 6 bln USD
The Price of Progress
- The Kway Teow Man: The Conundrum of Labour
- Mr Wang Says So: The Very Wise are Happy, and the Stupid are very Sad
- The Wayang Party: S’pore ranked most trade-friendly nation: Who benefits most?
High Notes & Minibonds
- TOC: Banned from selling what nobody wants to buy?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Don’t Hold Your Breath
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Issues not addressed by MAS investigation findings
- Singapore Alternatives: Minibond Victims Petition to PM Lee 迷你债券苦主向李总理的网上请愿书
- Today In Singapore: When Your Bank Short Changes You
AWARE Aftermath, CSE, Thiology Goes to NYU
- NYU OUTLaw: NYU OUTLaw Board’s Official Statement Regarding the Appointment of Dr. Thio Li-Ann as Visiting Professor of Law. [Thanks Vampyre]
- We Are AWARE: The Rawkin’ Thios [Thanks anon]
- Article 14: Human Rights for Some Humans [Recommended]
- Balderdash: On Thio Li-Ann’s negative reception among NYU staff, students and alumni [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics.net: Abortion and Comprehensive Sexuality Education
- We Are Aware: Why AWARE cannot “be Nice”
Pink Issues: S377A
- TOC: Put the gun down or pull the trigger
Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: The Physician’s Pledge
- Angry Doctor: Don’t need doctors anymore
- The Wayang Party: My rejected son
H1N1 Swine Flu
- The Gigamole Diaries: H1N1 (aka American flu) – dying embers of a spurious fire [Recommended]
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: Our Fight against H1N1
Singapore Coloring
- Toadjuice..: Geylang, Chinese and the irrationality of fear. Is it really irrational?
- geraldgiam.sg: Needless name-calling by the Straits Times
Strangers in a Strange Land
- Ong Jiin Joo: The Singapore PR Conundrum
Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- the kent ridge common: Migrants and stayers
- Next Stop Wonderland: Of Migrant and Stayers
Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- The Wayang Party: State media’s spin on elderly working full-time
National Service KNNBCCB
- Sam’s thoughts: Defending What’s (Y)ours! National Service and the Forest of Hokkien Vaginae
- Mr Wang Says So: Baaaad Language
- Balderdash: Horrified by many profanities in matinee show on NS life
Housing
- En Bloc Block Blog: IRAS is not dancing until the music stops
The Gospel of Harry
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Lee Kuan Yew, McNamara and the Vietnam war
Water, Restuarants and Plastic Bottles
- Sgpolitics: Campaign against bottled water borders on sheer idiocy
- Next Stop Wonderland: Bottled water or not?
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: What should you do if a blogger reported a wrong fact about your company?
- The Gigamole Diaries: Keep it up Sparklette!
Daily Discourse
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Fifty years of Lee Kuan Yew
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: A National Scandal ? – Why is Singapore spending so much on the military?
- Scholar at Large: 700 years of Singapore history? Part III: Nationalising the past [Recommended]
- Next Stop Wonderland: S’pore aligning tax code with OECD’s
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Maximise shareholder value
- Singapore Alternatives: Concept of Power II- Hong Kong vs Singapore/PRC , Democracy, Social Justice & National Identity [Recommended]
- Singapore Democrats Blog: Goh’s propaganda [Thanks Seelan]
- TOC: Will we ever see another politician like President Ong?
- The boy who knew too much: “Not one of us”
- My sketchbook: Critical Lapses In Auditor-General’s Report
- TOC: Safe, safe, city, or, O Mr Kishore Mahbubani! [Recommended]
- My Thoughts..: Joke of the Day – Asking Sales Staff to Put Heart into Work [Thanks Ganga]
Life, the universe and everything
- Alamak: SingTel iFlexi iPhone Plans for 2009
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Office 2010: The Movie
- mrbrown: iPhone 3GS up close and personal
- My Little Corner: Why Bundled Data Allowance Only For a Limited Period?
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Sunset At Bedok Reservoir [Thanks Lemon]
- Popagandhi: And The Living is Easy
- Notes From Setangoon Road: Filmmakers change a light bulb
- the kent ridge common: TOC – Stranded?
- A Historian’s Craft: Curating the Oceans: The Future of Singapore’s Past
- the kent ridge common: Ten Minutes Guide to Philosophy
- Aussie Pete: Top 10 You Tube Knockouts
- blankanvas: blogathon 2009
- ygblog4: how keong saik road developed into a red-light district
Infoblogaramous
- Jacob 69er: Seelan Palay’s exhibition of socio-political artwork opening 17 July (Friday)
- TOC: Lend TOC a helping hand
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Blogathon 2009
