The Singapore Daily

“For a nation priding itself on knowledge, science and technology, to have productivity fall over 10 years is horrifying.”
onedimensionalman

“If I get to vote in the next election than I will go ahead and just be daft.”
Insane Polygons

“Today, I hardly touch local newspapers anymore.”
theinkhorn

““Govt does not decide characteristics of Singapore’s markets: SM Goh”.. Well, who is looking into it, if not the government?”
Twasher

“The fact that we worry of productivity is symptomatic of how society in general is suffering a systematic dehumanisation and degradation of human dignity. It should send a chill down ones spine that human resource has become a means to a productive end.”
zachisaiahchia

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

Budget 2010
- The one dimensional island: The penitent season [Recommended]
- Yahoo! SEA: What do Singaporeans think of this year’s Budget?
- Lianain Films: So How Much Did you Pay Your Agent?
- The Temasek Review: How PAP screws up Singapore’s labor productivity with its “open door” policy to foreign workers
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s economy: the path not yet taken
- WSJ: ‘The Singapore Way’ [Thanks Gerald]
- Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP MPs echo NSP’s concerns on impact of productivity drive on SMEs
- Majulah!: Response to “Young PAP on Budget 2010″
- New Asia Republic: ICPAS Pre-Budget Roundtable 2010 [Thanks Donaldson]
- The Jakarta Post: Jakarta shuns Singapore new migrant levy increase
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Productivity and Cheap Foreign Labor..
- Gerald Giam: Growth must improve welfare of Singaporeans: Sylvia Lim [Recommended]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Sylvia Lim : Economic Growth Must Benefit Singaporeans..
- The Temasek Review: U.S Labor Dept: Singapore has steepest productivity decline and lowest increase in hourly wages in 2007 – 2008 [Recommended]
- Times They Are A-Changin’: How does that work?
- Singapore Dino: These PAP MPs don’t deserve to be in Parliament
- The Temasek Review: The root cause of Singapore’s economic woes: A political system meant to perpetuate the hegemony of the PAP forever
- The Temasek Review: DBS economist: Singapore may lose nearly 100,000 jobs by mid 2010
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Increasing productivity in Singapore
- New Asia Republic: A positive approach towards taxation
- Zach’s Thought Blot: On Productivity
- 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
- TOC: A minister must fall in the process of change, says NSP sec-gen
- Insane Polygons: Dare To Be Daft
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: The coming around of Chee Soon Juan and SDP?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MSM becomes friendlier to Chee..
- The Temasek Review: Dr Chee Soon Juan challenges Lee Kuan Yew to write off his debts
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Different functions of Government
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Needs Better Leadership…
- Mindblogging Stuff: New Singapore national pledge
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim asks for transparency in electoral boundaries report

Strangers in a Strange Land
- ambiguity: Disgraceful [Recommended]
- Growing your tree of prosperity: Singlehood versus marrying a foreigner. Which is the bigger threat if you are single and looking for someone? [Thanks Wai Chung]
- The Star: Population target in doubt
- TOC: Not all foreign workers are counted?
- The Temasek Review: The Iceman Cometh: The Role of Foreigners in Singapore
- Ian On The Red Dot: Jordan Beats Singapore 2-1
- Singaporean Skeptic: Comparing Singapore to the UAE.

Housing Singaporeans
- Singapore Alternatives: No clarity yet but more questions on HDB Survery
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Enslaving a person for life
- The Temasek Review: When will Singapore’s public housing bubble burst?
- Yours Truly Singapore: Housing in S’pore still affordable
- The Temasek Review: ST fails to mention that author of its article on HDB flats being affordable sits on HDB board

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: COE Revenue to rise by 50%..
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Everyday Rob People

Sorry Rony Recants
- Singaporean Skeptic: What is wrong with the whole Pastor Rony Tan affair. My belated 2 cents.
- Kennethism: “He said nothing wrong, you know.” [Thanks Kenneth]
- Angry Doctor: Take our rights… please!
- TOC: Let’s fight free speech with free speech [Recommended]

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: Practices surrounding the death penalty for drugs troubling
- la nausée: What Do Singapore Courts Think of the Misuse of Drugs Act?
- TOC: Crime and punishment
- TOC: No convincing reason to believe that the MDP works
- TOC: A moratorium is not an insult to national sovereignty
- Covered in His Blood: Anti-Death Penalty in Spore [Thanks Paul]
- TOC: Interview with Rev. Dr. Edward Job on Death Penalty

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Macro: (BN) Singapore, Abu Dhabi Face $10 Billion Loss on UBS, Citigroup
- BusinessWeek: Temasek-Owned Stocks Fall After Thai Thaksin Ruling (Update1)
- Bloomberg: Singapore, Abu Dhabi Face Losses on UBS, Citigroup (Update2)
- Bloomberg: Glencore Exercising ‘in the Money’ Coal Option May Signal IPO [Thanks Gerald]
- WSJ: Prudential Taps Temasek To Help Fund AIA Acquisition – Sources
- 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
- Facebook Group: Huat your head ah!
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Who crossed the line first?
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Casino-related social ills

Re education
- The Gigamole Diaries: What has the 3rd medical school got to do with GSK and the H1N1 pandemic?
- That Burning Republic-State Doesn’t Sway Placidity: The Portrait of the Singaporean Student

Lee vs Chee
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Again [Thanks Seelan]
- Singabloodypore: Ruling will go down as one that ignored common sense: Tian Jing

Religion
- Irreligious: Inquiry into City Harvest Church’s new building — and other issues

Daily Discourse
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore income gap, prison population high: Book
- Singapore Dino: Spare us the fake disappointment: S’pore govt is such good friends with Burmese junta
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: The S League don’t know what League Cup
- Barnyard Chorus: In which I’m pissed off, so welcome This Apocalypse.
- The Rot Within: The coming demise of wet markets
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Prison population across the globe
- Sze Zeng: What do I think about homosexuality?
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Flaring up at Pulau Bukom
- TOC: Press Muse – Love thyself, ignore thy neighbour
- Mathia Lee: Is education overrated?
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: The Singaporean Attitude (And what can be done)
- Mathia Lee: Genetic Sex Change : Real or hype?
- Sex sells, so does Politics: After the Romanian, now a Saudi Arabian attack
- Mindblogging Stuff: Such Ignorance
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Out Goes the AG
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: How Singaporeans discuss national issues

Life, the universe and everything
- sixdegrees.asia: My Sister’s Pineapple Tarts [Thanks Gwee]
- Michael Geist: New ACTA Leak: U.S., Korea, Singapore, Denmark Do Not Support Transparency
- Jacob 69er: SDP 30th anniversary commemorative magazine packs a punch with style and substance [Thanks Seelan]
- Singapore Life and Times: Toss of Fortune
- Anonymous_X: Sinking of Singapore is “Irredeemable” [Thanks Anthony]
- Notes from Serangoon Road: On Community
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Asia 360 – 15th Philippine Hot Air Balloon Festival (1/3) [Thanks major]
- The Long and Winding Road: Smokey’s and a Red House: Memories of Victoria Street from Bras Basah to Middle Road
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Sony BRAVIA Full HD 3D TV coming to Singapore this summer
- Small steps for Social PR: Gadget3 to close – End of consumer tech era at CR Media
- Balderdash: MFA FAIL
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Rip out your F1 button and throw it away
- Anonymous_X: A forbidden love story of a 23-year-old guy & his 42-year-old girlfriend: Singapore is no Cougar Town [Thanks wacky_artz]
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Asia 360 – 15th Philippine Hot Air Balloon Festival (3/3) [Thanks Major]
- 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

Infoblogaramous
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Noise Singapore 2010 at Raffles City Square
- The Star: The Chinese love for properties
- WSJ: After Temasek, More Singapore Bonds Likely
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 27 Feb-6 Mar
- Research by the people, for the people: WeSearch! Seminar 2010 – “Social Action Across Divides”
- pinkdot.sg: Love, Kinship and Families take centre stage at Pink Dot 2010
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Calling all Facilitators, Social Innovators, and Designers!

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