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Archive for February 17th, 2010

Daily SG: 17 Feb 2010

Sorry Rony Recants
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: A Word About Intolerant Christian Views
- TOC: Take a stand for moderation, liberty, and genuine understanding
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Crime and Appropriate Punishment
- TOC: Aftermath of the Rony Tan incident: it has only just begun
- The Kent Ridge Common: A sensible move, finally
- Sgpolitics.net: What the Religious Harmony Debate has missed out thus far
- face/palming: beyond the bashing [Thanks A. Noni-Mity]
- Singapore Life and Times: Flogging a dead horse
- Kennethism: Pastor Rony Tan of Lighthouse Evangelism needs to apologise to gays and lesbians too [Thanks Kenneth]
- The Temasek Review: Aftermath of Rony Tan fiasco: ISD shouldn’t be policing racial and inter-faith relations
- Sze Zeng: Singaporeans have a low view of Internal Security Department?
- dhamma musings: The Pastor Tan Fallout

The Year of the Tiger
- The Secret Political Blog: De-constructing PM Lee Chinese New Year Message 2010
- Singapore Dino: PM Lee should increase his government’s productivity first before lecturing Singaporeans
- TOC: The “hongbao” dilemma: No place for divorcees during Chinese New Year?
- ALVINOLOGY: This CNY, Mr Mah Bow Tan is here to spread wealth
- sixdegrees.asia: Better Than Ang Pows [Thanks Gwee]
- Anonymous_X: Singapore River Hongbao 2010: Photos Galore [Thanks wacky_artz]

Road to Election
- utopia8787: speech at 15 Feb 2010 [Pics @Temasek Review]
- Chee Wai’s Random Musing: Making Pluralism work in Singapore
- Singapore Alternatives: The Role of Opposition – Putting Spurs into PAP’s thick hides
- The Temasek Review: Beyond the PAP: Thinking aloud

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The Economist : Welfare in Singapore The Stingy Nanny
- Gerald Giam’s Blog: The Economist calls Singapore a ’stingy nanny’
- The Economist: Welfare in Singapore – The stingy nanny [via Diary of A Singaporean Mind]

Cheaper, Better, Faster
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Dampening the volatility in our economy..
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Do “Productivity” Courses Necessarily Heighten Employability?

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Homeless people are “defective”, needs “rehabilitation”?

The Economic Strategies Committee Report
- Sgpolitics.net: Economic Strategies Committee: Real Change or Just Words?

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Blowin’ In The Wind: GIC pick Travelport IPO shelved for poor demand
- The Temasek Review: Chief Strategist behind Shin Corp debacle now head of Temasek’s Seatown Holdings

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- nofearSingapore: Singaporeans’ Medisave Money for Malaysian hospitals

Re edcuation
- Kelvin Teo Writes: Increased focus on recruiting matured applicants into civil service in a move away from a scholarship focus?

Daily Discourse
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Questioning Singapore’s foray into military robotics
- The Temasek Review: Interview with Kenneth Lin, 15 year old Singaporean who started a petition against Lee Kuan Yew
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Hitting and Running
- Alamak: The State of Broadband in Singapore
- TOC: Cultural Revolutions, Wilting Flowers
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: The Lion City: quietly opening the door for Chinese Triads?
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Free Burma Campaign Singapore statement on the 2010 Burma elections
- Proto Magazine: Biopolis: The Science Factory [via Balderdash]

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Who is Tai Sui (太岁)?
- Small steps for Social PR: Viewers’ Choice 2009 prediction

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Telegraph: Singapore accused of launching ‘Sand Wars’
- The Age: Singapore accused of stealing beaches
- The Jakarta Post: Place your bets
- AP: Singapore tries luring foreigners as casino opens
- The Star: Big brother to drive away cars
- Bangkok Post: The not so beautiful game
- FT.com: A ‘stall crawl’ of Singapore
- Reuters: Lender’s agent forecloses on Stuyvesant Town
- Reuters: Temasek cuts stake in ICICI Bank to 5.9 pct from 8.3 pct
- Reuters: Five world markets themes next week
- NYT: Year of the Tiger: Potentially Exciting and Turbulent
- Reuters: New media can help fight repression: watchdog group
- Foreign Affairs: The End of the Beijing Consensus [Thanks CR]




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5 Jan 1926 - 30 Sep 2008

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