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Lots of new products announcement happening this week. Adobe announced their latest CS5. Microsoft announced Kin One and Two which most likely won’t be coming to Singapore. Nokia released 3 new phones too, C3, C6 and E5. And HTC HD Mini and Legend is available in Singapore now.

Did I miss anything?

News
- Engadget: iPhone OS 4 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer
- Cnet: Opera Mini lands on iPhone
- Engadget: Apple refreshes MacBook Pro family with Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors
- PC World: Twitter Gobbles Up Tweetie
- LesterChan.net: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Announced
- TechGoondu: Say hi to the Kin One and Two – Microsoft’s self-branded phones
- The Register: Nokia announces Facetwittery-enabled phones
- JustinLee.sg: High-Level Analysis of iPhone OS 4.0 Multitasking
- TechGoondu: HTC HD Mini and Legend launches this weekend in Singapore
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: How to get free turn by turn navigation on your Motorola Milestone in Singapore?
- Engadget: MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010

Reviews | Guides
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Review: Fujitsu LifeBook P3110
- HOTHardware: Alienware M11x Ultra-Light Gaming Notebook Review
- InsideHW: ASUS UL50VF

April 14th, 2010 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (3)

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: PAYM policy forum: Now I know why flats are “affordable”? (Part 1)
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mah Bow Tan : We don’t fudge the numbers Part 3.
- The Temasek Review: ST journalist points out the flaws in statistics used by Mah Bow Tan

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Secret Political Blog: Public money to integrate foreigners in Singapore
- The Temasek Review: Why it is inappropriate to compare PAP’s immigration policy with that of other immigrant societies
- Little Speck: Blanket recruitment

Countdown to Elections
- It’s all about Amelioration: ENGAGE your people

Poor, homeless, jobless in Stingypore
- TOC: Homeless in Singapore due to technicality [Thanks Nabs]

The elite uncaring face
- Trapper’s Swamp: Don’t let schooling interfere with education

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Are We Ready For Politics In Schools? Yes We Are

Sin City
- TOC: The Satirist Says: Vice-Raids to encourage IR patronage

Religion
- Mathia Lee: Aftermath of an experimental un-evangelical Christian conversation

Daily Discourse
- A Serial Number on my Vote: ACTA – what should we be afraid of?

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: How to get free turn by turn navigation on your Motorola Milestone in Singapore?

Infoblogoramus
- deadpris: Wax In The City Victims, Gather our strength
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 10-17 Apr

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Singapore Economy Probably Rebounded Last Quarter
- NYT: News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments
- NYT Dealbook: 2 Staffers at Bank of China Charged Over Lehman Sales
- DailyFinance:Experts Face Off on Prostate Cancer Drugs
- ScienceDaily: Our Universe at Home Within a Larger Universe? So Suggests Physicist’s Wormhole Research
- GOOD: The Human Body as Subway Map

Unboxing Porn: The Ipad gets some loving

April 13th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: EXPOSED: The Anti-PAP flyers distributed in Seng Kang and Marine Parade (English and Chinese version)
- The Temasek Review: Distribution of anti-PAP fliers: Is it an offence under the Sedition Act?
- TOC: Opposition alliance will force openness and democracy
- Trapper’s Swamp: Infighting does not win elections
- TOC: Former Reform Party chairman takes its chief to task
- The Temasek Review: Has the PAP created a confrontational model in Singapore?
- Tattooed Banker: Empty vessels make the most noise
- Rachel Zeng: Oh Wendy Neo!

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: A sentimental case for keeping “cross-country” bus services
- TOC: COE may stall economic recovery
- On Nation and State: On the COE and the current overreaction
- Tattooed Banker: Our lovely transport system
- Sgpolitics.net: World-Class Public Transport System? RUBBISH!

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Singapore Life and Times: Busted
- project2011 Youtube: sheng siong giving wet markets the boot
- voix.deviant: The Attack of the School Tuckshop [Thanks Ian]

Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Secondary School Teacher turns property speculator.
- The Sun Chair Critic: Do you have enough for retirement ?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Tripartite panel contradicts Government on employment practices?

Poor, homeless, jobless in Stingypore
- The Temasek Review: Upgrading Out of Unemployment – is it possible?

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- CNNMoney: How a big bet on oil went bust: Full version [via The Temasek Review]

Singapore Coloring
- Singapore Life and Times: Regardless of race

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Sam’s thoughts: 2sides: Mental health awareness among youths
- ST Forum: Keep market forces at bay

Religion
- Irreligious: Minimalist living (1)

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum 2010: Once more, with fear
- guanyinmiao’s musings: National Youth Forum (NYF): Much Ado About Nothing?
- Singapore Alternatives: Public Service & Social Responsibility
- ERPZ: Nukes in the backyard

Life, the universe and everything
- flaneurose: Why some visitors come to Singapore

Infoblogoramus
- Carpe Diem: Party Against Poverty
- Cooler Insights: More Than $40,000 Worth of Prizes for Bloggers

Selected News Stories
- Global Asia: Life Before Lee: When Singapore Had a History
- The Star: Foreigner first practice rankles
- Free Malaysia Today: ‘Suicidal’ Singapore
- FT.com: Thais fight to reverse Porsche politics
- The Star: Mini CIQ For Pedestrians In JB To Start Next Year
- Boston.com:Unrest in Thailand [pictures]
- Youtube: Thai Army Opens Fire on Red Protesters in Bangkok 2010 Pt1
- Reporters Sans Frontières: Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
- The Daily Beast Video: The World’s 9 Best ‘Idols’

COME MAKE PINK DOT ON 15 MAY 2010!

April 12th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

“If this is who we are, I want no part in this.”
Kirsten Han

“Truth be damned, the Singapore Story must be spun, ad nauseum, and no one shall question its authenticity.”
Callan Tham

“..it seems that there will be no such thing as sub urban or outskirt in Singapore anymore. Everything will be prime area..”
Nabs

“Combining large amounts of cash with thousands of fervent believers is a recipe for increasing social cleavages in a diverse society.”
Imran Ahmed

“The COE allocates an important resource based purely on a person’s ability to pay… It maximises the pain among those with greatest need and limited means …and it maximises the govt revenue.”
LuckySingaporean

“…we need to take a long hard look at ourselves and see whether we have a future in this GDP obsessed state.”
Nabs

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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April 11th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Ten Questions for a Meaningful Election
- Simply Gab: Election Fever
- The Temasek Review: Singapore Police to investigate anti-PAP fliers sent to residents in two GRCs
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: On Anonymous Poison Pen Letters
- TOC: Anti-PAP sentiments take a new turn
- The Temasek Review: Potong Pasir resident questioned PAP over delay in upgrading opposition ward
- TOC: Former RP chairman refutes Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s claims
- I’m getting personal: Ideological politics sil-vous plait!
- TOC: Look who’s bashing Singaporeans

Housing Singaporeans
- Hazel Poa: Housing Prices Vs Household Income – Alternative ways of viewing the statistics [Thanks logna]
- The Kent Ridge Common: Re-reading the mainstream media’s ’statistics’
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mah Bow Tan : We don’t fudge the numbers..
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mah Bow Tan : We don’t fudge the numbers Part 2
- TOC: Housing Prices Vs Household Income – Alternative ways of viewing the statistics

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: PAP mass-recruiting Taiwanese PMETs by offering higher than market pay to lure them to work in Singapore
- Singaporean Skeptic: Singaporeans get easily alarmed.
- The Temasek Review: Why Singaporeans are disadvantaged in competing with foreigners in our own labor market
- The Temasek Review: The fallacy of using lax immigration policies to solve low fertility & ageing population issues
- Contact Singapore: Contact Singapore is an alliance of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Ministry of Manpower. [Thanks lary]

The elite uncaring face
- Balderdash: Probably the best ST Forum letter I’ve ever read
- Angry Doctor: Elite-bashing
- My sketchbook: Elitism in Singapore

Poor, homeless, jobless in Stingypore
- TOC: Do you want me to stay at the beach?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Political implication

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- FT.com: Singapore’s lesson from Harvard model
- Reuters: Temasek to invest $200mln in India’s GMR Energy-srcs

Re education
- Singaporean Skeptic: The problem with the Singapore graduate.

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Unraveling Singapore: Singapore Should Endorse, Not Ban, Smokeless Nicotine Products

Lee vs Chee
- Icarus Flew Too High: Chiam-Gate: See Tong’s own folly

Religion
- Temasek Hedge: City Harvest: our lawyers tell us to STFU. Too bad.

Daily Discourse
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s Islamic law and the inheritance imbroglio
- Loh and Behold: Blackmailed into Giving?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore lagged behind East Asia as a whole
- Unraveling Singapore: Al Jazeera English Is Still Available in Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- The boy who knew too much: An unexpected word.
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Multi-tasking FINALLY coming to iPhone

Infoblogoramus
- Wild Shores of Singapore: 14 Apr (Wed): Charity Premier screening of “Earth”
- Wild Shores of Singapore: 16 Apr (Fri): Talk on “Volunteering for Mother Earth” by Grant Pereira

Selected News Stories
- Northwest Asian Weekly: NY Times pays damages to Singapore leaders, Times public editor responds
- eFinancialCareers.sg: China Career Update: are Singaporeans becoming more open to careers in China?
- NYT: Wary of a Bubble at Home, Chinese Diversify by Buying in Singapore
- Taiwan News Online: Singapore housing market defies cooling measures
- Bloomberg: Asean May Need to Manage Capital Inflows, IMF Says
- Democratic Voice of Burma: State television goes global
- NYT: Start Saving Early, and Keep an Eye on Shifting Needs
- NYT Well: Eating Vegetables Doesn’t Stop Cancer
- NYT ArtsBeat: Is This the New Susan Boyle?
- Reuters: Q+A-What is going on in Kyrgyzstan?
- Boston.com: Crisis in Kyrgyzstan

April 9th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Erika Toda 戸田恵梨香 began modeling at a very young age before moving to Japanese TV dramas. Her natural beauty and her talent as an actress won her many fans as a J-idol. She is probably best known for her role as Amane in the hit movie Death Note. Pictures after the break.

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April 9th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Housing Singaporeans
- Trapper’s Swamp: ST refuses to challenge falsehoods
- The Temasek Review: Mah Bow Tan: “Unrealistic” expectations are a reason for some unhappiness about flats
- Ian On The Red Dot: My Home Is Where You Are
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Affordable housing

Countdown to Elections
- Mr Wang Says So: The Fine Quality of our Dear Deputy Prime Minister

Poor, homeless, jobless in Stingypore
- Sgpolitics.net: Big Rats and Fat Cats

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- It’s all about Amelioration: A Fallacy – The Singapore Dream – We are all just GDP Oompa Loompas [Thanks Nabs]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Halimah Yacob’s “counter-intuition”: Not true that bosses are hiring foreigners over Singaporeans

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: COE shoots up further..

Lee vs Chee
- TOC: Part 2 of Dr Chee’s explanation of why Chiam left SDP
- The Temasek Review: Chee strikes back against PAP’s propaganda of him ousting Chiam See Tong from SDP in 1993

Religion
- The Void Deck: Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s [Thanks BZH]
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s latest landmark: Suntec Cathedral

Daily Discourse
- Musings From the Lion City: Let’s Not Have Another ‘Accident’
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Singapore Tennis Association’s (STA) Ambitions Must Be Balanced With Caution
- TOC: Impose economic and diplomatic sanctions against Myanmar: ASEAN lawmakers

Life, the universe and everything
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore compared with other Asian economies
- The Long and Winding Road: The magical world of the Tivoli that was on Orchard Road

Infoblogoramus
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: PinkDot 2010
- TOC: Hair Zoom Studio raising funds for Changi Village cat sterilisation
- Wild Shores of Singapore: 10 Apr (Sat): Talk on “Native Trees of Pulau Ubin”
- Lost & Found: This website helps people in Singapore to report on lost and found items. [via Tan Kin Lian]

Selected News Stories
- ST Forum: Free up golf courses for other sports
- ST Forum: Buyers shouldn’t pay for valuation reports
- Amnesty International: ASEAN leaders should act over Myanmar’s appalling rights record
- SMH: Thai unrest, Burma cloud ASEAN summit
- Queens NY News Paper: Singapore – a city on steroids
- Own The Dollar: It Is A Daily Grind – You Need Perseverance To Get Ahead With Your Investments
- Room for Debate: The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati
- USA Today: Does cable have grip on speedy Internet?‎
- 2010 Index of Economic Freedom: Ranking the Countries

April 8th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Is the Opposition capable of epoch-making?
- Singaporean Skeptic: What is Asian values?
- Trapper’s Swamp: This is why he is Deputy Prime Minister
- Tan Tarn How: What is an internet election
- Small steps for Social PR: Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC is to be determined by Facebook, the winner will most likely be…

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: How the PAP allows foreigners into Singapore to compete with locals for jobs
- The Temasek Review: Average wages of fresh graduates continue to decline as number of foreigners increase

Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: High Housing Cost : Blame the people!

Poor, homeless, jobless in Stingypore
- Trapper’s Swamp: MOM protects employers, not employees

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics.net: ST forum writers not tired of rehashing old PAP propaganda
- Trapper’s Swamp: Another uninformed citizen
- The Temasek Review: Chee slammed again for introducing a “confrontational” Western-style democracy in Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: Kwong Wai Shiu – 100 years old but will it survive?

Daily Discourse
- voix.deviant: prostitution – a hoe different industry [Thanks Ian]
- voix.deviant: Cracks in Society (Part One): Homophobia [Thanks Ian]
- utopia8787: Engineering – Graveyard of Singapore
- Jacob 69er: Internet Politics: Surveillance and Intimidation in Singapore available for free download
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Indira Gandhi and Lee Kuan Yew

Life, the universe and everything
- ERPZ: Fashion in Singapore

Selected News Stories
- ST Forum: Legalised loansharking?
- The Star: A grave injustice
- Asia Sentinel: Indonesia Talks a Suspect Official Home
- Bloomberg: Singapore Will Favor Stronger Currency by October
- BBC: UK election at-a-glance: 7 April

April 7th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Apple has began selling their iPad Tablet over the weekend in US. And it’s nothing but tablet talk this week in the tech world. Some analyst estimate that Apple sold 600,00 to 700,000 over the weekend, resulting in several news agencies and website to use that figure without verification. Apple later clarify that they sold more than 300,000 iPad on Saturday (including Pre-Orders). Now, that is a more likely figure.

And in case you are interested, The JooJoo had a pre-order of 90 units and 15 cancellation. (Figure correct up to 11 February 2010)

News
- Cnet: Apple: Over 300,000 iPads sold on first day
- ifixit: iPad Teardown
- BGR: References to new iPhones, new iPod touch and new iPad found!
- Gizmodo: Joojoo Tablet: These Court Docs Show Only 90 Preorders (With 15 returned)
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: JooJoo received 90 pre-orders (and 15 cancellation)
- Engadget: HP Slate to cost $549, have 1.6GHz Atom Z530, 5 hour battery?
- TheStreet: Nokia Aims a Tablet at Apple
- Bright Hub: Core i3 vs Core i5: What’s the Difference?
- Tom’s Hardware: Nvidia Shows Off Ion 2 GPU Superiority in IE9
- Engadget: Windows Phone 7 is the new name, ‘Series’ gets voted off island
- Straits Times: OneMap for public data, svcs
- TechGoondu: Sony to drop “Other OS” support
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Apple to announce the future of iPhone 4.0
- Cnet: Microsoft’s mystery event revealed
- NTT’s Core Dump 2.0: The 3G-4G confusion..
- TechGoondu: StarHub TV on Nexus One – finally
- Lesterchan.net: SingTel First To Bring In Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Motorola Milestone now exclusive to Starhub in Singapore

Reviews | Guides
- Engadget: Apple iPad review
- Engadget: Fusion Garage JooJoo review
- TechieLobang: HTC HD Mini Review
- TechieLobang: HTC Legend Review – Unboxing and First Look
- Hot Hardware: Asus 13.3″ U30Jc Laptop, Optimus-Enabled Mobility
- TechieLobang: Canon PowerShot S90 Review

April 7th, 2010 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Opposition parties go for the PAP jugular
- Rachel Zeng: There is nothing wrong in speaking up

Poor and homeless in Stingypore
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Income gap, reason and The Spirit Level
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Homeless in Singapore..
- TOC: Singapore policies force some onto streets

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP repeats call for Teo Ho Pin to speak up for residents
- Gerald Giam: Training your rice bowl away

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why Singaporeans’ fear of new immigrants is not ‘irrational’
- The Temasek Review: Teo Chee Hean: PAP’s immigration policy has always been “strict”
- TOC: Resident upset with noisy foreign neighbours

Housing Singaporeans
- It’s all about Amelioration: The HDB conundrum – A Contrarian View [Thanks Nabs]

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: Not in my name – No to the Mandatory Death Penalty

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: What Elitism Reflects About Singapore’s Meritocratic System

Sin City
- Singapore Alternatives: NSP Press Release: Concerns on the Casino License for Marina Sands

Religion
- Trapper’s Swamp: Review charity investment laws
- The Temasek Review: City Harvest Church got legal reminder from investors to keep quiet on Suntec deal

Daily Discourse
- The Asia File: Singapore agrees to rare human rights visit [Thanks Ben]
- TOC: Energy efficiency: what is NEA’s role?
- Military Life: The Hurt Locker – An NSman’s Reflections
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Using Matt Harding to promote YourSingapore?
- Musings From the Lion City: Hypocrites & Fear

Life, the universe and everything
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: The Best True Story Behind The Most Fake True Affair that never Happened [Thanks logna]

Selected News Stories
- ST Forum: Quick action could have reduced number of spa victims
- Bloomberg: Commerz Expects First Tenant in Empty Ex-Lehman Singapore Tower
- Asia Pacific Voices: Malaysia Unveils Bold Economic Alterations
- SMH: Population debate more than immigration
- Reuters: Top 20 most promising startups
- NYT: How to Self-Diagnose Your Financial Health
- Own The Dollar: Play Casino Games That You Know, Invest In What You Know
- The Frame: Chinese miners rescued

Showcasing Singapore’s biodiversity: Oriental Pied Hornbills (Anthracoceros albirostris) of Pulau Ubin

[Thanks Bhavani]

April 6th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: Charm See Tong charms Bishan residents during walkabout
- utopia8787: Election Game Plan
- TOC: SDA-RP walkabout – pictures and video

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- I’m getting personal: Wait and see?
- ThinkingNectar: Robert F. Kennedy on GDP

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Empty Vessel: COE woes – just admit the policy was flawed
- flaneurose: Removing Trunk Services for Buses

Poor and homeless in Stingypore
- TOC: Raiding the homeless – part two
- Trapper’s Swamp: MCYS raids the homeless. Again.

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Australia to cut down on migration intake as Singapore prepares to welcome more immigrants

Singaporeans, a dying breed
- New Asia Republic: It begins with a grant

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: A call for a moratorium

Lee vs NYT
- The Asia File: New York Times ombudsman says IHT should pull out of Singapore [Thanks Ben]
- Singapore Dino: NYT Editor questions why IHT bowed to Lee family
- NYT: Censored in Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore Dino: Al Jazeera highlights difficulties faced by HIV sufferers in Singapore

Re education
- voix.deviant: Sardonic Successes of Singapore’s Education System [Thanks Ian]

Religion
- The Temasek Review: City Harvest’s stake in Suntec: The thin line between religion and business
- TOC: Non-disclosure was “due to legal requirement”, says City Harvest

Daily Discourse
- Sgpolitics.net: Ars Moriendi — The lost art of dying
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Fly by night spa operators..
- Icarus Flew Too High: Al Jazeera English dropped from SingTel Mio TV from April 1st
- The Temasek Review: Inside scoop on Singapore politics: Fact or Fiction?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Does The Consumer Association Of Singapore (CASE) Lack Teeth?
- TOC: Press Muse – Calling STOMP’s bluff
- Butterflies of Singapore: Murder in the name of Art??

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Bad student project… Or real NTU promo vid?

Selected News Stories
- Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute: Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade in the United States.
- NYT: How Washington Abetted the Bank Job
- LA Times: Assessing the first 10 years of the human genome era
- The Consumerist: VIDEO: Consumer Reports’ First Thoughts On iPad

TOC’s Mandatory Death Penalty Campaign Video

[Thanks Andrew]

April 5th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“..we should focus on making our voters politically aware. For only then will we truly be safe from populism.”
On Nation and State

“Why do the solutions to so many problems involve locking up more money in the CPF for longer and longer periods?”
LuckySingaporean

“The validity of feedback lies not in the identity of the person who provided it, but rather in the validity of the message itself.”
Callan Tham

“Singapore leaders allow themselves to be criticised as undemocratic or illiberal. Some even appear to wear such labels with pride..”
Cherian George

“We, as citizens, can and should take issue with our government for their plans to accommodate the foreigners but we should be mindful never to get caught up in xenophobia.”
Ian

“For all we know, the demand for change constitutes an illegal act itself. I guess the only legal thing now is to vote.”
Sam Ho

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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April 4th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: United Singapore Democrats — a new political party
- The Temasek Review: SDP associate Jaslyn Go and others set up new political party to contest in next general election
- Icarus Flew Too High: USD Part Deux
- The Temasek Review: Did Low Thia Khiang backstab his mentor JBJ?
- Sgpolitics.net: No one forced Chiam out: SDP chief

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Helping S’poreans save on electricity bills?
- The Temasek Review: Sheng Siong rejects appeals from stallholders to scrap rental hike and seeks their “understanding”
- voix.deviant: Monopoly: The Sheng Siong Edition 2010 [Thanks Ian]
- My Little Corner: The eventual demise of wet markets in Singapore

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Yaw Shin Leong: Concerns over Minister Lim’s comments
- Chemical Generation Singapore: This is (COE) Madness
- ALVINOLOGY: SMRT’s Real Mission Statement
- ZDNet: Wi-Fi a means to attract public commuters

Poor in Stingypore
- flaneurose: A rising tide lifts all boats?
- TOC: $460,000 benefits for lower-income family over 60 years: Really?

Gahmen and New Real Media
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Is the Straits Times above Astroturfing?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Icarus Flew Too High: More Ducks than Singaporeans

Re education
- voix.deviant: sexuality education with homework [Thanks Ian]
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Holistic Education In Singapore

We are against Capital Punishment
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Death penalty in Singapore (2009)

Lee vs Chee
- Sam’s thoughts: When in Singapore, do as Romanians do
- Civic Advocator: No walking if we have a political cause
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Words and the law and Humpty Dumpty
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: A Bad Day for the Court?

Daily Discourse
- Singaporean Skeptic: More on A*Star
- TOC: Singapore Police Force should build strong community partnerships in cyberspace
- Deadpris: Banking Ethics in Singapore: UOB’s 0% Installment Plans Agreement (huh what agreement??) [Thanks Priscilla]
- Yours Truly Singapore: From true grit comes myths
- Digital Terrorist: Jack Neo, Wendy Chong and Infidelity
- Academia.edu: Self-Censorship: Singapore’s Shame [via Jacob 69er]

Life, the universe and everything
- VegVibe: Skating for the Comunity Cats’ Future [via TOC]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: April Fools 2010
- The Long and Winding Road: That old rusty red coloured building along Sembawang Road

Selected News Stories
- The Australian: Death stirs row over loan for liver
- The Star: It’s more than just shopping in Johor
- Times Online: Leeson’s shadow looms over SocGen confession
- The Age: Dark side of the boom

April 3rd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Singaporean Strawberries?
- The Temasek Review: What will happen to Singapore if the opposition wins the next general election?
- Musings From the Lion City: Call Me Crazy

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: The relentless rising cost of living in Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Sex sells, so does Politics: Wash your car at the Bukit Batok Water Festival!

Poor in Stingypore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Income Gap is not important : PM Lee

Religion
- Mathia Lee: An experimental liberal Christian conversation meetup : all are invited

Daily Discourse
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Idea Of Singapore
- Sam’s thoughts: We are a multi-valued Singapore
- Loh and Behold: WARNING: This is No April Fools’ Joke
- Singaporean Skeptic: A*Star is so ‘wonderful’… according to the Straits Times
- voix.deviant: incest – moral panic or restricted freedom? [Thanks Rudder]

Selected News Stories
- Global Voices Online: Singapore: TwestivalSG 2010
- Daily Finance: Why Silicon Valley Isn’t Starving for Overseas Talent
- Reuters: Nevada regulators analyzing Macau casino activity
- NYT: North Koreans Use Cellphones to Bare Secrets
- BusinessInsider: The 19 Must-Know Chinese Consumer Companies That Are Taking Over The World And Growing Like Crazy
- NYT The Lede: Bombing Caught on Camera in Dagestan
- NYT Economix: Parents at Work
- How To Get Focused: Email and Focus
- LA Times: Organic: What it means on different products
- Reuters: FACTBOX-World’s top mobile firms by customers
- International Living: 2010 Quality of Life Index: 194 Countries Ranked and Rated to Reveal the Best Places to Live

April 1st, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment