Daily SG: 5 Mar 2010
Budget 2010
- TOC: Budget should be more inclusive, change workplace culture to boost productivity, NMP says
- The Temasek Review: Sylvia Lim: the pace and scale of the influx of foreigners in the last few years was wrong
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why NMP Calvin Cheng has got it all wrong
- The Void Deck: Budget 2010 – S’pore for S’poreans [Thanks Dennis]
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Consummate Joker
- Trapper’s Swamp: Who elected these clowns?
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party’s Kenneth Jeyaretnam replies to YPAP activists
- Feed Me To The Fish: What’s the Meaning of Affordability, Subsidy and Productivity in Singapore?
- The Temasek Review: Ng Kok Lim rebuts Halimah Yacob’s assertion that Singapore workers can afford more
- ALVINOLOGY: Quoteworthy – Prof Koo Tsai Kee, MP, Tanjong Pagar GRC
Countdown to Elections
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim asks for transparency in electoral boundaries report
We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: Interview with Rev. Dr. Edward Job on Death Penalty
Strangers in a Strange Land
- Ian On The Red Dot: Jordan Beats Singapore 2-1
- Singaporean Skeptic: Comparing Singapore to the UAE.
GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- TOC: How is allowing Medisave to be used overseas connected with GIC losing S$7.3 billion?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Unnamed Asian fund billions for Prudential’s AIG bid
- Reuters: UPDATE 1-GIC converts UBS notes, faces $5 bln paper loss [Thanks Gerald]
Sin City
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Casino-related social ills
Re education
- That Burning Republic-State Doesn’t Sway Placidity: The Portrait of the Singaporean Student
Daily Discourse
- ambiguity: Such Ignorance
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Out Goes the AG
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: How Singaporeans discuss national issues
Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Rules from the NEA on scattering someone’s ashes at sea in Singapore
- New Asia Republic: Being a Republic
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Amazing Rube Goldberg machines by OK Go
- Tribolum.com: If You Want Something Done Right
Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Bloomberg: HIV Discoverer Criticizes Singapore for Lack of Free Treatment
- Bloomberg: Singapore Plans Greenwich-Style Hedge-Fund Area at Nepal Hill
- HBS: FDI and Local Entrepreneurship in Four Asian Economies – Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
- AP: Thailand offers tourists free insurance
- NYT Business: Why, Exactly, Are Big Banks Bad?
- BBC: BMW hopes new 5-series will revitalise the brand
- Guardian Gallery: Gay marriage around the world
- Guardian Gallery: Paris fashion week: A daring first day
