Daily SG: 19 Mar 2010
Budget 2010 Debate
- New Asia Republic: Why not a living wage?
- Gerald Giam: Tackling income inequality should be Govt’s top priority
- Ian On The Red Dot: Wages & Productivity – Building A Cathedral From Scratch
- The Temasek Review: Eight Reasons Why Foreign Workers Will be Preferred Over Our Local Ones
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang: Don’t cut pay of workers who reach 60
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang: Give part-time and contract workers have good training opportunities
Countdown to Elections
- Sgpolitics.net: Has Singapore a Future?
Housing Singaporeans
- All About Money: Oh what a tangle web..
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Farce
Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: GLC Keppel Corp mass-recruiting Malaysians for jobs in Singapore
Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: $2 billion in PAP town councils’ sinking funds but need to increase charges?
- The Temasek Review: Declining wages of Singaporeans and the continued denial of PAP leaders
Re education
- The Temasek Review: 3 local varsities raise fees for Singapore students again
Lee vs Chee
- TOC: ST and LHZB censor Chee’s letter on PAP undermining Singapore’s interests
Daily Discourse
- Trapper’s Swamp: Broad definitions make for bad laws
- New Asia Republic: On rights and freedom of action [Thanks Donaldson]
- The Temasek Review: Only 11 cases of successful Public Assistance (PA) applicants from July 2008 to December 2009
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Same Old Chinese / Mandarin Dilemma
- The Kent Ridge Common: KRMF 2010 takes a positive turn
Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: The magical hill with a fairy-tale like mansion that was Mount Sophia
- Singaporean Skeptic: It is called football (not soccer)!
Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- CNN Go: It’s finally open — First look (and ride) at Universal Studios Singapore
- Reuters: Universal Studios Singapore courts 8 for lucky launch
- Crosscut: Singapore’s national dish: Hainan chicken rice
- The Age: Australia faces housing affordability ‘time bomb’: developer
- Reuters: Recession left “walking wounded” workers
- NYT Opinion: Changing the Vatican’s Response to Abuse
- Reuters: The promise of seven blood baths in Bangkok and no violence [bloody pics]
- Crack Two: Pollution makes for nice pics [large pics]
