The Singapore Daily

Road to Election
- TOC: On the beat to the hustings?
- The Temasek Review: Electoral rolls updated again to include more new citizens in the register
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Who will the new citizens of Singapore vote for?
- The Temasek Review: Altered electoral boundaries for GRCs and SMCs released

Sorry Rony Recants
- TOC: Bigotry of one – faith of another
- Mathia Lee: Sex. Religion. Politics
- ambiguity: Refuting Rony’s Regrets

The Economic Strategies Committee Report
- ST Forum: Beware of ‘too big to fail’ situation [Thanks Gerald]

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Singapore ranked 70 in Quality of Life Index

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Even CNA is questioning the percentage of Singaporeans employed by Resorts World Sentosa

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- TOC: More poor people helped with less money?

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- The Temasek Review: Temasek Holdings – Transparency a Perception ?

Daily Discourse
- The F Word Jolene Tan blog: Race to the bottom
- Chee Wai’s Random Musing: Of hyperboles and reactions to them

Life, the universe and everything
- Zach’s Thought Blot: On Technology – Technology and Personality
- The Long and Winding Road: Schools, churches and a candlelight procession: Memories of Queen Street
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Did you google for “Facebook login”?

Infoblogaramous
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Blog a trend and win a PC

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- BBC: Why does the West love the Dalai Lama?
- NYT: Toyota Owners Complain, This Time About the RAV4
- Reuters: FACTBOX-The golf career of Tiger Woods
- The Daily Beast: How the iPad Could Kill Newspapers

The Singapore Daily was recently interviewed by Aaron Koh, the author of Small steps for Social PR. Aaron is a social media marketer who advises on building brand awareness in social media and the digital space. He began his career as a journalist with PC World SG, HardwareMag and CNET ASIA. He is currently a contributing senior journalist at the Financial Service Technology based in Australia and a social media consultant for vr-zone.com.

Blogger interview with Singaporedaily.net

Social PR chats with the team at Singaporedaily.net to find out more about their blog.

Who are you? Ie what is your blog name and your real name. Why did you come up with the blog title?
The Singapore Daily is a site that highlights articles on current affairs published by local bloggers.

What are you? In ten (or so) words, you would describe your blog as: …
to better understand and make informed decisions about current affairs

Why do we need you? Why is your blog different? What makes it stand out from the crowd? Why is it special?
We are one of the few local sites that can help publicise alternative opinions and viewpoints on local current affairs. If you chose the red pill, give us a visit.

Editorial Deadline? Ie when should PRs NOT call?
Contact us any time through our email.

Features list? Do you have one, and if so, where can we get it, and can PRs still pitch to you ideas that aren’t on the list?
We are not running any ads on the site at the moment. But we would be happy to help publicise charity or any not-for-profit events that are of public interest.

Perfect story? First, what kind of stories does your blog run? Second, what kind of PR-generated or PR-related stories have a chance of getting a run in your blog?
We prefer to highlight and link to published articles. We would be happy to help publicise charity or not-for-profit events that are of public interest.

Contact? What’s the best way for PR to contact you, email or phone best?
Email is the best way to contact us.

What kind of stories make a great blog post?
We like articles that are current, critical, honest and informative.

If your blog was an animal, it would be a …?
Not the Merlion.

Do you do lunch/dinner/junkets? Why or why not?
DK might be interested :)

Complete this sentence: You wish that PR would…
do more to bring awareness to the less fortunate in our society.

What stories will your blog be watching closely this year?
The next General Elections.

If you were a great novel, you would be…
something written by either Dan Simmons, Stephen Donaldson or Umberto Eco.

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