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Archive for February 26th, 2010

Daily SG: 26 Feb 2010

Budget 2010
- Sgpolitics.net: What is missing from the productivity debate
- TOC: Raising foreign worker levy will not solve problems, say critics
- TOC: A complacent budget
- The Kent Ridge Common: Critical Response to Budget 2010
- The Temasek Review: Uniquely Singapore: PAP ministers raising their own pay by a hefty 8.8% ahead of the next election
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: MIT prof confirms what Chee has been saying all these years
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Simplify taxation
- mrbrown: Ministers got early angpow?

Countdown to Elections
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: U-Turn or Election Sweetening….?
- The Temasek Review: Why Singapore’s future in the next ten years is a bleak one
- Transitioning.org: Ten Reasons Why PAP May Lose Some More Seats In The Next Election

We are against Capital Punishment
- ambiguity: MDP And Its Uncanny Resemblance To Religion
- la nausée: The Mandatory Death Penalty and Democracy
- TOC: The legal canon of death

Sorry Rony Recants
- The Temasek Review: Clarification to misleading remarks Pastor Rony Tan made on Buddhism
- Kennethism: Christian Post’s report of the Rony Tan ex-gay service in March 2009 [Thanks Kenneth]

Sin City
- The Temasek Review: Marina Bay IR have recruited 1,500 “Singaporeans and PRs” as card dealers
- Macau Daily Times: Sands uncertain about Singapore’s performance

Re education
- Balderdash: International Skip School Day planned
- Musings From the Lion City: Wrong Audience
- Singapore in General: A Creative Future? [Thanks Soojenn]

Housig Singaporeans
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Housing woes for a PR

Daily Discourse
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Foreign Corruption and Money Laundering – A comparision of US & Singapore
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Dredging near Kusu Island continues until Aug 10
- EcoWalkthetalk: Can Electric Vehicles change the world? Part 1/3 A Third Comeback [1][2][3]

Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: The far side of the hill
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Renting and owning a property
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: How to skip the trailers on an original DVD?

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Reuters: Something fishy? Eco-guide lists seafood to avoid
- Business Insider: Here’s The Real Reason Korea Is Winning So Many Olympic Medals
- DailyFinance: Is the All-ETF Portfolio a Good Idea? What Investors Should Know
- Guardian: When animals turn on their trainers
- Reuters: Job insecurity linked to risk of poor health
- LA Times: No radiation danger from airport body scanners

Daily ChioBu: Rina Chinen

Daily ChioBu: Rina Chinen

Rina Chinen (知念里奈 born 9 Feb 1981) is a singer, model and TV actress. The native Okinawan was trained in dance and song at the Okinawa Actors School, whose graduates include J-pop queen Namie Amuro. Debuting in 1996 with the Single “Do-Do for Me”, Rina’s career transitioned through bouncy pop songs and ballads to rock and then R&B. Her last album “Breath” was released in 2001. In 2002 Rina appeared in the Japanese TV Drama California Dreaming (夢のカリフォルニア Yume no California). This was followed by Central Ikegami Police (こちら本池上署 Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho) which ran successfully for five seasons. In 2007, she appeared in the Tokyo Production of Les Miserables.

Pictures after the break. [NSFW]
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