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Daily SG: 30 Sep 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 30th September 2009

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Toward the Green: Is Singapore’s imports of non-residents hurting its economy?
- The Temasek Review: Latest statistics: Citizens constitute only 63 per cent of Singapore’s population
- Big Talk Singapore: Thanks to foreigners, Singapore population is hitting 5 millions
- ErniesUrn’s Xanga: Singapore is overcrowded

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Yawning Bread: UBS survey shows Singapore slipping in standard of living
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Life really got worse in Singapore..
- The Temasek Review: Why Singapore “meritocracy” isn’t meritocracy
- Feed Me To The Fish: F1 and Men in the Street of Singapore

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- TOC: Analysing Temasek Holdings’ Review: Does portfolio value mean anything?
- The Temasek Review: State media tries to cover up GIC’s gigantic S$109 billion loss in two years
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore: GIC’s Turn Under the Microscope

Housing
- The Temasek Review: A reply to Ms Mabel Tan’s letter: “How family’s fortunes have grown over the years”

Twilight in Paradise. Growing Old In Singapore
- TOC: Parents suing their children?

Re education
- The Kent Ridge Common: Alternative media in the education of our future generation

National Service
- Sam’s thoughts: MinDEF: More action, less talk please, we’re Singaporeans
- Sam’s thoughts: Full-time student doing reservist

A new low for Ris
- Trapper’s Swamp: Spare me the romanticism

In Remembrance: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- Rachel Zeng’s blog: Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
- UncleYap: candle-light vigil @ Hong Lim Park for Mr JBJ anniversary 30.Sept.2009 [Thanks uncle]

Daily Discourse
- The Useless Tree: William Safire and Singapore and Williams College
- The Temasek Review: Formula One – A Gold Mine or a Gold-digger

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Daily Tech: 30 Sep 2009

Posted by dk on 30th September 2009

It’s Intel Developer Forum and we have a few exciting news coming from San Francisco. Perhaps the most exciting news for me is the instant boot BIOS by Phoenix. No more pressing power button and go fetch coffee.

News
- Cnet: Intel’s Moblin 2.1 to compete with Windows
- Slashdot: New Phoenix BIOS Starts Windows 7 Boot In 1 Second
- Media Memo: Apple’s Apps Flying Off the Virtual Shelves: 6.6 Million Downloads Per Day
- Arstechnica: Windows 7 PCs to go on sale early
- Tech Dirt: Google Ordered To Shut Down Gmail Account Of User Who Received Unsolicited Banking Info
- All Things Digital: USB-IF Sides With Apple, Spanks Palm in iTunes Synch Spat
- Cnet: Picasa 3.5 brings facial recognition to the desktop
- TechCrunch: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome
- Cnet: Google Toolbar adds comments with Sidewiki
- Techie Lobang: Google Trike Spotted at Singapore F1 Track, Google Street View Coming Soon?
- NY Times: Twitter Appears Set to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion
- Ridz.sg: HP FOR ME

Reviews | Guides
- Theory is the Reason: Social Cyborg upgrades: GoPro Hero Cam + Xacti HD1010
- Tech65: Review: Olympus Pen E-P1
- Nicole: Review: Lenovo Y450
- LesterChan.net: Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch

Events
- SGEntrepreneurs: Incub3 Presents HungryGowhere and Gothere.sg Founders Talk Series

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