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Daily SG: 16 Oct 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 16th October 2009

Road to Perdition Election
- The Temasek Review: Avoiding and delaying “real change”
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore polls used to be in September or December under Lee Kuan Yew

Mainstream vs X-Stream Media
- TOC: “If you want to do journalism, don’t do it in Singapore.”

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Lim Swee Say : Cheaper, Better, Faster (CBF)..

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Today in Singapore: China National Fights Back

Housing
- URBANRANT: Ways to improve the transparency of housing agents in Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Discussion 2
- Singaporean Skeptic: We should call modern medicine ‘modern’ and not ‘western’.
- The boy who knew too much: Big Brother and Singaporean “Medicine”

Lee vs Chee
- Jacob 69er: Singapore Democrats to launch video talk show [Thanks Desmond]

The Gospel of Harry: Harry Lee and the Men in White
- The Temasek Review: Intellectual dishonesty: SPH did not reveal source of 1986 report in the Yoong Siew Wah fiasco

Daily Discourse
- Die neue Welle: 6: To The Devotees of “Asian Values”
- The Temasek Review: Singapore: Will the real academics please stand up?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Corporatization of wet markets..
- groundnotes: I need my abibas
- mengwong: on the MOM’s recent policy change re EntrePass [Thanks Bernard]

Life, the universe and everything
- My Food Sirens II: You mean bloggers can’t speak their minds? [via DK]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: When will companies ever learn?
- World Through Spider’s Eyes: Human Greed & The People Exploiting It [Thanks Kenneth]
- The Kent Ridge Common: Of Asian values and patriachism: A review of The Blue Mansion by Glen Goei
- Cooler Insights: The Purrfect World of Hello Kitty
- The Asia File: New Asian citizen journalism website set to launch [Thanks Ben]

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Daily ChioBu: Chrissie Chau

Posted by b on 16th October 2009

Chrissie Chau 周秀娜 is a model from Hong Kong. Born (22 May 1985) in Guangdong, Chaozhou province, her family moved to Hong Kong when she was 10 years old. During an event in Sha Tin 沙田 in 2008, she was spotted by reporters who thought that she looked a lot like famous HK model Gaile Lai 乐基儿, and nicknamed her the “pirated” Gaile Lai 翻版樂基兒. The nickname stuck and helped propel her popularity in Hong Kong.

Pictures after the break.

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