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Weekly Roundup: Week 49

Posted by singaporedaily on 5th December 2009

“The latest call to be “cheaper, faster and better” may be the last straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back of Singaporean workers.”
Leong Sze Hian

“It would seem then [that] we are handicaps when it comes to languages of persons. We only have languages of functions… a prosthesis of bankrupt selves instead of being integral to these selves and enriching them… Perhaps our bilingualism is nonlingualism.”
Molly Meek

“Papmandering - a form of gerrymandering unique to Singapore.”
Subra

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