The Singapore Daily

“Singapore’s research and development needs a rethink.”
Subbaraman Iyer

“We desperately need a serious cultural reboot.”
Gigamole

“The original draft of my speech was composed of words like “integrity” and “breaking new boundaries” but a recent incident put a reality check on what I have to say.”
Loo Zihan

“..it is troubling when his voice becomes the historical narrative – and the study of Singapore history becomes an exercise in regime legitimization.”
Khairulanwar Zaini

“That’s another way of saying:.. ”PAK SI BEH ZHAO””
Temasek Review

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

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments: Guess Ho’s baaaaack..
- Desparatebeep: A Few Cultural Observations [Recommended]
- Article 14: Goodyear leaves: A bad year for PAP to call for elections?
- Singapore Dino: Singapore High Commissioner makes a complete fool of himself
- TOC: Temasek – Murky figures and unanswered questions
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Temasek’s Confusing Losses….
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Sermon on the Mount
- Singaporean Skeptic: What can $40 Billion do?
- Temasek Review: The mystery of Temasek’s ’succession’ plan
- FT Alphaville: When is an SWF not an SWF?
- TOC: Who holds the sovereign wealth of this nation and why? [Recommended]
- My Thoughts..: What an Elaborate Way to Keep us in the Dark, Temasek [Thanks Ganga]
- Sg Pirate Game: Risky Business [Recommended]
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Jokes of the day
- Simply Gab: Temasek Staff to get No Bonus or Less Bonus?
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Net Bonus or Malus?
- Temasek Review: The great ‘wayang kulit’ by Ho Ching with Straits Times as supporting cast
- Jacob 69er: Temasek – Lumbered with the boss’s wife
- Singapore Dino: Ho Ching must be KICKED OUT of Temasek
- Feed Me To The Fish: It never rains in Temasek!

AWARE Aftermath: Thiology Goes to NYU
- Musings: Spin when you’re losing
- Today In Singapore: Chicken Shit! Chicken Shit!
- Singapore Law Watch: Nuance, a so-called memo and threats: Letter from Thio Li-Ann
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Amount Of Hatred Against Thio Li-Ann Is Dumb
- the kent ridge common: Under scrutiny: Thio Li Ann
- TOC: Mis-informed demonisation of LGBTs?
- The Lycan Times: Personal Capacity?
- The Bosonic State: The Paradox of Thio Li-Ann’s Anti-Gay Stand [Recommended]
- the kent ridge common: Where academic and religious views collide
- Today In Singapore: The Slippery Road To Hate
- Gay Patriot: On gay issues, academic freedom takes backseat to political correctness
- Above the Law: Let’s Talk Even More About Dr. Li-ann Thio
- Politics Daily: Li-Ann Thio and NYU Confront ‘Academic Freedom’

PSC Yes Men Quota Filled, Looking For Mavericks
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Give PSC the “real” you?
- A L V I N O L O G Y:Quoteworthy – PSC Chairman Eddie Teo
- My Singapore News: What the govt is looking for in a govt scholar
- The one dimensional island: Mavericks in the civil service? [Recommended]
- My sketchbook: How to select a PSC scholar

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The TRUTH about Healthcare.. [Recommended]
- The Gigamole Diaries: Singapore’s doctor bashing continues - and is a test of our medical ethics
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Singapore’s Medical care - Is it your “daiji” (problem) ??
- The Gigamole Diaries: Ethics, professionalism and the medical school(s)
- The Gigamole Diaries: Singapore Medical Council’s ongoing battles
- Singapore M.D.: Judging doctors 2

H1N1 Swine Flu
- Singapore and the stuff: My reply to TTSH’s reply on H1N1 issue

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- From Hri to all Thomsoners: Old Age
- Mathia Lee: Singapore’s policy responses to ageing, inequality and poverty
- Mathia Lee: Immigration doesn’t look like it solves our aging problem

CPF
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: CPF Life : Annuity without guarantee..

Recession
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: An analysis of Singapore condo pricing turning point - Sale of Alexis
- Sgpolitics.net: Is Singapore really in a better position to survive economically?

Housing
- Mr Wang Says So: Population Demographics and the Property Market
- Temasek Review: Buyers paying prime area prices for suburban condos
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Speculators Reign Supreme
- Singapore Watch: How much do property agents actually make?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: More graduates = higher HDB prices?
- Today In Singapore: Poor Expats

9 NMPs Appointed
- TOC: Why are public sector appointments shrouded in secrecy? [Recommended]

Pink Issues
- Citizens Watch: Is There A Gay Agenda That I Should Be Worried About?
- Balderdash: On the “Gay Agenda”

Censoring Threshold
- Loo Zihan: Valedictorian Speech
- Singaporean Skeptic: Mr Loo Zihan is a failure of our national education system.

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Nomadism: Penalty for eating sweets on Singapore public train -MRT
- Public Transport in Singapore: Promote the use of car sharing

re Education
- Singaporean Skeptic: Translated Letter to the Berita Harian (Choose Bond-Free Scholarship)
- nofearSingapore: Private Educational Organisations- Accountability needed in the system [Thanks Dr.Huang]

High Notes & Minibonds
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Honesty and fairness
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Free market - success and failure
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Gathering on 22 August at Hong Lim Park (2)

Free Burma
- Jacob 69er: Why Myanmar’s elections will work
- TOC: All talk, no traction

Daily Discourse
- the kent ridge common: Ven. Ming Yi’s trial: Let us not be moral police
- Singapore Life and Times: Speak easy
- Subba’s Serendipitous moments: Singapore’s research institutes — suffering from split personality? [Recommended]
- Anonymous_X: Thin…so Singaporean?!
- Yahoo News: Thin is in for Singapore youth [Thanks Samantha]
- geraldgiam.sg: No barrier-free access to ION? Forget it then!
- TOC: “Even in the cyberage, some things don’t change”
- Sam’s thoughts: Harry Lee and the Half-hearted Civil Servant
- Feed Me To The Fish: 5C’s - Monks And Ministers Got Them All!
- Mathia Lee: Getting Ex-spouses to pay : Proposed Maintenance Services Authority
- The Gigamole Diaries: HSA, cell therapies and conflicts of interests..
- Sgpolitics.net: Grossly inadequate protection for credit card users
- Temasek Review: Exposing the fallacies in PM Lee’s ‘ideal’ model of governance
- Master of the Obvious: Motivations for an Agency of the Future (AoF)
- Sgpolitics.net: Why the Singapore Democratic Party deserves our support
- that burning republic: Revising History
- TOC: CCTVs in Hong Lim – Police replies to TOC’s queries
- Roxy.Z: Why is it difficult for the goverment to withdraw from business? [Thanks roxy]
- Chill Out: Selling our souls to the devils
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Chee addresses his troops… [Thanks Seelan]
- Singapore Alternatives: New Media, Political flims, Open Society & Fair Play
- Temasek Review: The dearth of public opinion in Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- …thrills, spills & flatliners: A Sudden Void in the North
- AngryAngMo: Do Asians Really Want To Look Like Ang Mohs?
- I.Z.Reloaded: Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachan in Singapore, says it breathes efficiency and sterilized existence
- s/pores: Once Bonded
- the kent ridge common: Seelan Palay’s solo art exhibition
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: CNA: “Charity through web games”
- The Gigamole Diaries: Is organic food better for you? The answer is….
- Mr Guay’s teaching blog: An old but good video on Electricity
- Yesterday.sg: You speak the language, but do you appreciate it?
- Peter Cochrane’s Blog: Singapore’s fibre paradox

Infoblogaramous
- The FØØL’s Progress: A.C.M.E : Mini-fest by otakus, for otakus!!
- Otterman speaks..: Singapore Map exhibition @ NLB, 01 Aug – 31 Oct 2009
- XinYun @ SG: Free Mattress for the Poor and Needy in Singapore
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: What professional historians really do
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Age of Conan: The Second Coming
- Sam’s thoughts: What the hell is wrong with SingNet?
- No To Rape: 7 Aug 09 Seminar - Towards Criminalising Marital Rape
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Do you want to attend “The Spirit of Champions Party” by Smirnoff?