The Singapore Daily

“So, what about the real important issues? What of the income disparity, wanton import of foreign labor, Temasek’s financial fiasco etc? What did the government, through the rally speech, say about them? Absolutely nothing.”
Not the 1st Pirate

“People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.”
Tharman Shanmugaratnam

“Accountability requires the government to go beyond lip-service in addressing the call for greater democracy, civil liberties and choices.”
Viswa Sadasivan

“In any other democratic country, what happed in Singapore’s Parliament on Tuesday is unthinkable..”
Leong Sze Hian / Andrew Loh

“..when the highest paid elder statesmen and first generation political leader of independent Singapore categorically states that The Pledge is an aspiration and not ideology, I have to ask myself.. The wedding vows- “I pledge that I will honor my wife”.. [Are] vows taken merely aspirations? That I may hold on to the claims made and discard them at personal leisure and whim?”
Percevale

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

National Day 2009
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PM Rally Speech : What happened to the critical issues?
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: PM’s negative example of insensitivity?
- TOC: Time to take racial and religious harmony to the next level
- Blowin’ In The Wind: PM Lee makes an error in National Day Rally speech
- Chemical Generation Singapore: NDR 2009 and Wish for Rebates and Subsidies
- TOC: Brief response to PM Lee’s speech
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: A Well-Played National Day Rally
- Feed Me To The Fish: The $3.71 Million Performance
- groundnotes: NDP pole-dancing S’pore style
- Temasek Review: A people united by apathy and ruled by fear
- Singapore Alternatives: What PM Lee did not address in his NDR speech..
- Mr Wang Says So: PM Lee’s Strangely Empty Rally Speech
- Today In Singapore: Missing The Target
- Chemical Generation Singapore: NDR 2009 and Navel Gazing Disappointment
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee’s National Day Rally: the key issues which he missed out
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: National Day Rally 2009
- Majulah!: Singaporeans = Contemporary Coolies? My Take.
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: National Day Rally 2009 — Was PM Lee preaching to the converted?
- Sgpolitics.net: Can filial piety be legislated? [Recommended]
- Sam’s thoughts: Race and Religion: Must talk more
- My sketchbook: PM lee on religion in NDP rally 09
- Illusio: Minilee NDRS decoded: 2009 edition!
- Sgpolitics.net: Social cohesion and religious harmony: Look who’s the complacent one
- The Temasek Review: Why should we be grateful to the present PAP?
- TOC: SDP ND Message – More substantive argument needed
- TOC: WP ND Message – an amalgamation of fortune-cookie sentiments
- TOC: PAP ND Message – Words are hollow without moral leadership [Recommended]
- Sg Pirate Game: Silent culpability
- The Lycan Times: Commentary – Maintenance of Parents Act
- Sgpolitics.net: ND message critique — the SDP’s response
- Loh and Behold: National Day Rally 2009
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Tolerance versus understanding
- TOC: NSP ND Message – Seeking solidarity or sympathy?

Singaporeans, A Dying Breed | Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: MM Lee – population control revisited, 30 years later
- The Kent Ridge Common: Ideals of having new citizens and the reality
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM : Singapore now highly dependent on foreigners..
- Today In Singapore: Same Message, Same Agenda
- The Brotherhood Press: Is LKY’s foreign talent policy perdition or salvation?
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: MM Lee: Foreign talent is vital
- The Kent Ridge Common: A tale from the Lion City – A Stanford Ph.D. turned taxi driver
- Next Stop Wonderland: A taxi driver in Singapore with a Stanford PhD
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Phd Taxi Driver
- Empty Vessel: Of course the Baby Bonus didn’t work
- Being a Working Mother: Babies are wonderful, but..
- TOC: TOC Special Feature: Foreign Talent policy remains contentious, and for reason too [Recommended]
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Singapore Story: How a Stanford PhD graduate ended up driving a taxi in Singapore!
- TOC: Patriotism and gratitude require reciprocity
- The Temasek Review: More stringent criteria needed for PR application
- The Temasek Review: PRs given equal chance in Primary 1 admission a sore point amongst Singaporeans
- LIANAIN FILMS: Migrant Dreams – Ismail’s Story
- The Rot Within: Housing for FT only
- Toward the Green: Who is Dr. Cai Mingjie?
- The Temasek Review: ‘PRs versus Citizens’ debate rages on in cyberspace
- LIANAIN FILMS: The Human Trade
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore: Make Mandarin Compulsory for All Races [Thanks Imran]
- The Temasek Review: High cost of HDB flats a key reason for failure of Baby bonus to boost birth rate
- Mr Wang Says So: Education, and Even More Discrimination Against Citizens
- The Temasek Review: Sweta Agarwal proud to be Indian citizen and to have PR status in Singapore
- running legs: I want to eat the kueh, but can you clean up for me?
- Trapper’s Swamp: [Thanks Callan]
- The Temasek Review: Sweta Agarwal’s Facebook and her husband’s webpage exposed by netizens

Lee vs Sadasivan
- NMP Viswa Sadasivan’s Maiden Speech in Parliament: NMP Viswa Sadasivan’s Maiden Speech in Parliament, 18th August 2009 [Recommended]
- Sgpolitics.net: NMP Viswa Sadasivan: Did he just shake the foundations of the PAP facade to the very core? (Part One)
- Winter Is Coming: Democracy: What it can or cannot do [Recommended]
- The Temasek Review: NMP calls for “repoliticizing” of universities
- running legs: Something I’ve learnt today..
- Sgpolitics.net: Did NMP Viswa Sadasivan just shake the foundations of the PAP facade to the very core? (Part Two)
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Equality for all? Not in Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: NMP Viswa Sadasivan’s Speech.
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Were they highfalutin ideas?
- Singaporean Skeptic: Lee Kuan Yew to NMP: “Pledge is an ideal. Not a reality!”
- Tantalizine: So which is baby, Spits or swallows?
- Today In Singapore: The Convenience Of Selective History
- Feed Me To The Fish: Truth Hurts!
- mrbrown: MM Lee tells yammerin’ NMP where to put his highfalutin ideas

Singapore Coloring
- TOC: The race to racial harmony

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Temasek : Ho Ching to stay indefinitely…
- Sgpolitics.net: Finance Minister remains evasive on Temasek Holdings and former CEO Charles Goodyear
- Singapore Dino: Singapore Minister to People: We don’t give a damn to what you think!
- The Temasek Review: Tharman refuses to answer questions on Goodyear’s exit
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Salah Year’s National Day Rally
- The Void Deck: The Rally, Race and Religion [Thanks The VoidDeck]
- Military Life: You Can’t Handle the Truth (Uniquely Singapore) [Thanks Panzer]
- Today In Singapore: Dodging The Bullets
- Under the Willow Tree: The Temasek Problem is Not a Temasek Problem (Why Tharman Shanmugaratnam is Ho Ching’s Best Friend)
- TOC: A mockery of Parliament
- Article 14: Public Interest – Not a sufficient reason to disclose information [Recommended]
- TOC: Tharman’s “public interest” remark removed by Straits Times

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Singapore Story Part 2: There are no homeless people in Singapore!
- The fire in my life: Homeless? Tie yourself to a tree then! [Thanks Joel]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Sending the down and out to jail…
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: Go tie yourself to a tree, judge tells homeless man
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: The short supply of empathy in Singapore
- TOC: Where’s the compassion in our “fine city”?

Road to Perdition Repression Election
- The Kent Ridge Common: Breaking the camel’s back

Woody Goh’s 10 Challenges
- Mr Wang Says So: A Simple Illustration of Question 9

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- TOC: Ministers’ salaries include a “confidential discretionary component”, says George Yeo

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Sgpolitics.net: Why the large discrepancy in value of contracts awarded to ST Electronics for installation of platform doors at SMRT stations and at Taiwan’s Neihu Line?
- Today In Singapore: Who Got Ripped Off?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Malaria in Singapore
- The Gigamole Diaries: Ethical conundrums?
- Singapore M.D.: Fallacies and Misconceptions

High Notes and Minibombs
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Organising the Petition and Gathering – my personal perspective

AWARE Aftermath: Thiology Goes to NYU
- Billings Gazette: Woman to woman: Protests of anti-gay lecturer say much about political correctness

Housing
- Singapore Alternatives: The failure of past success – HDB

Re Education
- Mr Wang Says So: More on the Scholarship Matter

National Service
- Temasek Review: Reduce the duration of national service and reservist

PAP65 in Sheepskins
- TOC: P65 blogger reveals he is Young PAP member
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: P65 – revamped or revealed?

Say No to Rape
- The Kent Ridge Common: No To Rape Campaign and Seminar
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Marital Rape – Singapore worse than Afghanistan?

Free Burma
- Temasek Review: When will our foreign ministry start showing some ’spine’ against recalcitrant Burma?
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: My Personal Memories of Rape
- Sam’s thoughts: What is unnatural death?
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore is No.1.
- Majulah!: Excellent Article about Why the West hate Singapore.
- Inquivision: Amsterdamned
- Singaporean Skeptic: Only in Singapore: The Bank is the ‘Victim’
- TOC: The CASE for taking consumers for granted?
- The Star: Coping with a sexual revolution
- The Kent Ridge Common: Your preferred “shadow cabinet” line-up if there ever was one
- Singaporean Skeptic: The myth of Asian Values (as perpetuated by our Gahmen).
- TOC: Read the small print!
- The Temasek Review: Singapore now a more expensive place than Hong Kong
- Balderdash: MDA’s Free-to-Air Television Programme Code
- Singapore Social Activist: Singapore’s Loan Sharking Problem

Life, the universe and everything
- Red Sports: Oh, my! Singapore Press Holdings website steals from Red Sports (and you can add Lianhe Wanbao to the list too) [Thanks J T]
- Wet Calamari: Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention 2009 day 1 recce report
- mohdazhar: Singaporeans And Singlish [Thanks Mohd. Azhar]
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Indignation [Thanks Seelan]
- That Burning Republic-State Doesn’t Sway Placidity: The Tale of Two Victorias
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Singapore 360 – Day 8: Singapore Flyer [Thanks Major Elm]
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Singapore 360 – Day 9: Songs Of The Sea [Thanks Major]
- Aussie Pete: A Story of the Image – Absolutely ‘Awe Inspiring’

Now Showing
- vinyarb: District 9 – Movie review

Infoblogaramous
- Master Of The Obvious: NRF issues Call for Proposal for Technology Incubation Scheme
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Ideas for the Economic Strategies Committee Solicited
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Gathering at Hong Lim Park – Natinal Pledge

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