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ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The Lycan Times: An Open Letter to SMRT CEO
- Want some tau huay?: SMRT trains are not packed, according to it’s CEO
- Singapore’s Land Transport: Distance fare calculation glitches?
- Small steps for Social PR: SMRT “Fail” Bus/Train a joke in Twitter-verse
- yuxiang’s corner: So if I choose not to board the train and in the end get pissed off after 20 mins..
- Dee Kay Dot Posterous: SMRT CEO says “People can board the trains – it is whether they choose to.”
- ST Forum: SMRT reply does not address commuters’ concerns
- ST Forum: Matter of choice?

The Great Flood of Orchard Thomson Boon Lay Bukit Timah Telok Kurau Singapore
- flaneurose: Flash Floods and Spin Doctoring
- Musings From the Lion City: Unrealistic
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: I don’t think it is possible in Singapore to…

Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Alternatives: Caught off Guard Ministers’ Ranking

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Loh and Behold: They are not Beasts of Burden
- Unraveling Singapore: Farewell Singapore!

Filial Sons and Daughters of Singapore
- Loyalty is Orange: Reading into Nothing
- Singapore Notes: Power Of The Sublimal Message

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- SpotlightOnSingapore: SMRT vandal: Oliver Fricker’s caning sentence is torture?
- Business Beyond the Reef: Singapore Swing

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers (Overweight people need not apply)
- TOC: Discrimination of overweight staff in Singapore hospitals

S’poreans A Dying Breed
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Low birth rate

Little Green Dot
- Wild Shore of Singapore: Giant endangered grouper served in Singapore restaurant
- Green Kampong: Channel Newsasia makes a meal of a vulnerable species of fish
- Global Witness: Singapore’s ‘sustainability credentials’ undermined by environmentally destructive sand imports

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Sze Zeng: Rhetoric for prosperity theology/teaching

Daily Discourse
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The Understandably Xenophobic Mob
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Thank you, Soh Lung [Thanks Seelan]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why I think Economic Outlook is very bleak….Part 2
- Feed Me To The Fish: No Ma, it’s not your fault
- Singaporean Skeptic: FIFA is as incompetent as the PAP
- ST Forum: Football. Does S’pore suffer from French blight?

Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: The living streets of Shanghai and the less Singaporean Singapore that we have become

Selected News Stories
- ZDNet: Citizens perceive govt as unresponsive online
- Free Malaysia Today: KTMB land deal: Did S’pore threaten Najib with Altantuya?
- SMH: US politicians target ‘libel tourism’
- Business Week: Singapore Airlines Said to Plan S$500 Million Sale of Bonds
- NYT: The Third Depression

June 30th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

The Great Flood of Orchard Thomson Boon Lay Bukit Timah Telok Kurau Singapore
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Flash Floods: Is This Going To Be A Regular Thing, PUB? (Part Two)
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: The Flood and PUB’s Credilibity Washed Away

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: TOC Special Feature: Safer transport – what are we waiting for?

Filial Sons and Daughters of Singapore
- The Temasek Review: Does the PAP stand to benefit from resurgence in filial piety?

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- The Temasek Review: Are we looking at another Billion Dollar losses?

Daily Discourse
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Managing a Smarter Singapore Landscape
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Slur on our reputation
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Call made to abolish ISA, for truth commission over detentions
- The Temasek Review: New tactic used by state media to deflect blame from PAP ministers
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: The travails of Singapore’s democratic youth
- The Itch To Write: Only ‘hardware’ what about our ‘software’?

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Singaporean men have more progressive attitudes towards dating than Singaporean women

June 29th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

The Great Flood of Orchard Thomson Boon Lay Bukit Timah Telok Kurau Singapore
- TOC: Floods – are we prepared?
- The Temasek Review: “Freak” floods – Unanswered Questions
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Floods in various parts of Singapore….
- TOC: Heavy downpour, several areas flooded (Updated with videos)
- motochan: Singapore Flood 2.0
- Boleh! Boleh!: Flooding @ Cisco Basement Carpark
- mrbrown: PUB caught off guard everywhere today
- Singapore Alternatives: Press Statement on recent Floods
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Singapore Freaky Flooding Part Trois
- ST Forum: Fresh floods. More to it than a clogged culvert

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: Welcome to Singapore, where Foreigners kill Foreigners
- funny little world: Must it really be “Us vs Them”?
- funny little world: Singapore = Global Torture Hub.
- Barnyard Chorus: Dear Oliver, I’m sorry.
- Singapore Dino: Raymond Lim finally surfaces 42 days after SMRT security breach
- The Asia File: Singapore to cane Swiss man after train graffiti incident
- SpotlightOnSingapore: SMRT vandal: Oliver Fricker gets jail and caning. Barbaric?
- Singapore Notes: The Price Of Justice [PNSFW]
- TOC: Vandalism – the new evil (Message from your leaders)
- My Sketchbook: 3 strokes of love from Singapore for graffiti
- Right Juris: Oliver Fricker: Swiss Man Faces Singapore Caning for McKoy Banos Graffiti (Video)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Demography, not immigration, part 1
- TOC: Vivian’s Sleight of Hand: Blaming S’poreans for PAP policies
- Gerald Giam: Where have all the engineers gone?
- TOC: Ban transport of workers on backs of vehicles – TWC2
- New Asia Republic: Foreign lives not worth much?
- ST Forum: Workers want urgent action
- ST Forum: Parliament must act to ensure safety

Countdown to Elections”
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Outstanding Govt keeps getting caught off guard…
- Loyalty is Orange: Blame the Foreigner
- Singapore Alternatives: NEA under Yaacob disturbing Opposition Parties instead…

Filial Sons and Daughters of Singapore
- Barnyard Chorus: Filial piety: fine feelings and hard work
- Cognitive Dissonance: MCYS video on filial piety
- ST Forum: Filial piety not about right and wrong

Truth, Justice and the Singapore Way
- Singapore Notes: Oh Yes, The Law Can Be Mocked

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Death row case: Malaysian Law Minister’s puzzling about-turn
- Malaysiakini: Law minister flip flops on Yong’s execution case
- Malaysiakini: 40 Asian NGOs denounce Yong’s execution

Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MM Lee : No Housing Bubble in Singapore..

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Obesity – a KPI? How silly can you get?
- Loh and Behold: Fatties Doomed Career-wise?

Re education
- ST Forum: Why burden children with holiday work?
- ST Forum: School break should be just that: a clear respite from books

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Kennethism: Questions inquiring City Harvesters need to be asking

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Mark Ng advances the cause of speech freedom
- Loh and Behold: A Strawberry MP?
- TOC: An open wound

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee : Footballer outrun circle line train
- mrbrown: Oi, Sumiko Tan is no Carrie Bradshaw lah

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Goh the architect of separation
- The Star: Sand not coming to PTP, says official
- Asahi.com: China’s top officials study at Singapore’s knee
- CNN Fortune Tech: The iPhone 4 Death Grip saga
- FT.com: Football has changed, England have not

June 28th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

“..is the government more interested in pummelling the accuser or dealing with the issues raised?”
Au Waipang

“..we can subcontract the work , but we cannot subcontract the responsibility”
Findmuck

“..here’s a plea to our would be leaders, ….please lead…please help and facilitate our originality and creativity. Stop going for those low lying fruits. And playing those self gratifying numbers games.”
gigamole

“My bold forecast is that the swing will be 15%..”
Tan Kin Lian

“Great, just what we need. Another party.”
theinkhorn

“This is love, but given its strange alignment with the political ideology and paternalism of an authoritarian state, it is repulsive and evil.”
Sam Ho

“..the arguments seem to be falsely revolving around the status of the church as an institution of public character, which seems to imply that what’s wrong for a private sector enterprise may be right for an IPC, and vice versa.”
uncletrader

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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June 26th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Filial Sons and Daughters of Singapore
- Sam’s thoughts: MCYS’ video on Filial Piety: A euphemism for soft authoritarianism and total subordination
- The Temasek Review: Filial Piety- Time for Government to get into the act too
- Furry Brown Dogs: Stereotyping filial piety and failure of MCYS
- Loh and Behold: 不 孝?
- TOC: Filial piety ad – what was not shown
- ST Forum: An unrealistic portrait

Countdown to Elections”
- ambiguity: New Rules SG #1
- Sgpolitics.net: Straits Times finally admits: New Citizens overwhelmingly support PAP
- TOC: Former RP chairman sets up new political party
- Feed Me To The Fish: Sorry, it’s my bloody fault.

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singapore Dino: Vivian hurls insult after insult at Singaporeans
- Yours Truly Singapore: Critics of foreign talent in sports get red card
- My Sketchbook: Profits over safety- Singapore’s first world mentality

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- flaneurose: “Stuy Town – Who got ‘stuffed’”
- Temasek Hedge: Singaporeans left holding the bill (and vomit bag) after the Stuy Town party
- Singabloodypore: Just How Wealthy is the Singapore Government?

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: How should I help?

The Gospel of Harry
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why MM and Sands differ on rampup?

Religion
- New Asia Republic: Of YouTube and Salesmen

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Temasek Hedge: NKF + failed S-Chip = City Harvest?

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Notes: The Best Of The Best Gets Better
- The Asia File: More illegal sand exports to Singapore uncovered
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Illiberal pragmatism and reciprocal complicity

Life, the universe and everything
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Stock Market : Putting the Ceridian Index to the test…
- Leona’s Blog: Just be Yourself: UK Business Grad Runs Nasi Lemak Stall at Newton Circus
- The Long and Winding Road: The curved buildings at the end of Collyer Quay and the Straits Steamship Company
- deadpris: We Really Have Power Over Cervical Cancer
- Mr Guay’s teaching blog: The invisible rod

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Sand pirates: Millions floated out of the country via Sungai Johor
- AP Rwire: Asian shares open lower on concern for US recovery
- NYT: The Renminbi Runaround
- Reuters: Ten years on, genomic revolution only just starting
- LA Times: 2011 Hyundai Sonata has its ups and downs

June 25th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Hiroko Sato 佐藤寛子 (born February 17, 1985) is a Japanese gravure idol, actress and singer. Hiroko was born in Fukushima but grew up in the Kanagawa prefecture where she was student council president at her high school. In 2002 Hiroko Sato made her acting debut in the low budget horror movie “Scare” and began a very successful career as a gravure idol. In 2008, Hiroko Sato officially retired from gravure swimsuit modelling in 2008.

Pictures from her YS Web Vol.206 photoshoot after the break. [PNSFW]

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June 25th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Gigamole Diaries: Worker’s safety – are we serious?
- Sex sells, so does Politics: We need a safer way to transport foreign workers? Wait for another 2 years!
- Singapore Notes: Score Update – FT 1, Singaporeans 0
- The Temasek Review: Dr Vivian slammed critics of PAP’s FT sports policy as being “small-minded”
- Singaporean Skeptic: Italian Football Chief Blames Foreign Talents For Euro Woes

Countdown to Elections”
- Singaporeans for Democracy: SFD to submit report on Singapore’s electoral system to UN

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- Telegraph: Singapore manhunt launched for Briton suspected of vandalising train

Filial Sons and Daughters of Singapore
- funny little world: Got problem? Make video lah!
- Balderdash: What passes for ‘filial piety’ in Singapore

Twilight in Paradise
- singapost: Hungry in Choa Chu Kang [Thanks Ravi]

Housing Singaporeans
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Evaluating The Finer Aspects Of The Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP)

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Recalcitrant: MM Lee Kuan Yew the “Forecaster”
- Daily Mirror: LKY’s prejudice

Little Green Dot
- EcoWalktheTalk: Go Green with SMRT: Using Public Transport in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Who actually benefits from our India and China Trade Agreements?
- TOC: Look who’s bashing Singaporeans
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Inconsiderate behaviour as the Singapore way
- New Asia Republic: Moral hazards of modern banking (part 1 of 2)
- ST Forum: Don’t call it teasing – it’s harassment

Selected News Stories
- Reuters: World’s rich got richer amid ’09 recession: report
- Reuters: Now scientists read your mind better than you can
- Reuters: Roman archaeologists find oldest images of Apostles in a catacomb
- Unique Scoop: Rare Star Wars Photos [via Balderdash]

June 24th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

I guess everyone is sick of iPhone 4 and iOS 4 stories. Anyway, there are several sources saying that the upcoming Nokia N8 will be the last Nseries phone running Symbian OS. Next Nseries phone will be running MeeGo OS. Symbian lovers can still get their doze of Symbian on the Nokia Xseries phone.

News
- Cnet Asia: Nokia N8 last Nseries to run Symbian; N9 confirmed
- iFixit: iPhone 4 Teardown
- TechieLobang: Google Maps Gets Updated on Android, Now with Train Schedule
- i-digITall.com: CommunicAsia 2010
- TechieLobang: Update Your iPhone 3Gs, 3G and iPod Touch with Latest iOS 4 Software Now
- JustinLee.sg: Sony Ericsson Xperia X8, Cedar, Yendo Specifications
- TechGoondu: CommunicAsia gadget roundup

Reviews | Guides
- Tech65: Gear65 #58 – Samsung Galaxy S
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: First Look: Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
- JustinLee.sg: First Look at Samsung Galaxy Beam
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: First Look: Nokia X5

June 24th, 2010 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Swiss Vandal : The Sentencing Dilemma…
- funny little world: Let Singapore be the best it can be.
- The Kent Ridge Common: Oliver’s breach — just who is responsible? [Thanks Lester]
- The Mind Game: Alright, who Really is paying for public transport?

Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: How to have Level Playing Field for Singapore Oppositions?
- Augustman: Don’t Judge an Estate By Its Report

The Great Flood of Orchard
- TOC: Paying for monkeys

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Re-examine judicial & clemency process, M’sian lawyers urge S’pore

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Notes: The Truth Will Always Be Malleable

Sin City
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: High rollers take bus to Sentosa casino?
- Bloomberg: Singapore Gambles Low Crime Rate With $10.2 Billion Casino Push

Re education
- ST Forum: Son’s studies hit by teacher shortage at school

Little Green Dot
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: *SCAPE’s respond to balloon release #scapesg

Religion
- The Temasek Review: Religious Harmony – A Case of Freedom of Religion vs Freedom of Speech
- Guardian: Singapore’s fragile harmony threatened

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Go West, Hollywood Ho!
- Irreligious: Should religious organisations be tax-exempt?

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Journalists should not retail government disinformation [Thanks aemedia]
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Britain : New Govt = New Thinking on Equality and Debt
- The Gigamole Diaries: The missing genius? Indeed.
- Mathia Lee: Questioning

Selected News Stories
- NYT: Sept. Sale Seen for Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper
- FT.com: UK emergency budget 2010. Transcript of the chancellor’s speech

June 23rd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

The Great Flood of Orchard
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Flash Floods: Why Singaporeans Are Angry And Fearful
- TOC: Floods: Monitor or don’t monitor also flood?

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Public transport security a private matter?
- The Temasek Review: Yaacob Ibrahim and the art of shirking responsibility

Countdown to Elections
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Something’s brewing with PAP’s secret online project
- Gerald Giam: A “learning experience” for weak leaders

Strangers in a Strange Land
- ambiguity: One Child Too Many
- The Temasek Review: New citizens and PRs make up 20 percent of grassroots leaders

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Khaw Boon Wan and his heart attack..

Little Green Dot
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: *SCAPE balloon release – What kind of message are they sending to our youth? #scapesg

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Irreligious: Living like Ho
- Flying Low: Plagiarism

Daily Discourse
- funny little world: “Why not try to see things from a different angle?”
- ST Forum: Noise pollution complaints fall on deaf ears

Life, the universe and everything
- The Mind Game: Farquhar — True founder of Singapore?
- EcoWalktheTalk: So Just What is Shark Fin Soup? [Thanks Bhavani]
- department of crappy engineering: RoboCup 2010 Singapore
- Balderdash: Pictures – July 2009
- TOC: The life of a patriotic Singaporean

Infoblogoramus
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Mega workshop series for all shore guides (Jul-Aug 10)

Selected News Stories
- ST Forum: Phone user gets a ‘data roaming’ shock
- danwei: China’s private healthcare racket [Thanks Kenneth]
- NYT: The Genome, 10 Years Later
- Guardian: The internet: Everything you ever need to know
- SMH: Battle of midway. Drive compares four of the best mid-sized sedans

June 22nd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Countdown to Elections
- Gerald Giam: High-level Ministry departures a sign of impending election?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Voting swing at next general election
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Town Council Performance….what it actually shows…
- TOC: The TCMR finger-pointing farce
- TOC: Confused by S&CC arrears management score?

The Great Flood of Orchard
- Loh and Behold: Screwed
- Sgpolitics.net: Singapore celebrates International Water Week with a mighty splash!
- My sketchbook: Best person to fix orchard road’s flood
- ST Forum: Were there lapses?

We are against capital punishment
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: International law in Yong Vui Kong’s case
- TOC: The irresponsible Straits Times
- IPS News: Hung Up on the Death Penalty [via Jacob 69er]
- Malaysiakini: Death row case: Minister to meet Yong’s lawyer

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- TOC: The Great Singapore Farce – Now Showing
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Sophistry of Minister K. Shanmugam
- Singapore Dino: Wong Kan Seng has time to discuss Chinese LRT, but not to comment on MRT breach?

Singapore Human Trafficking Hub
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Too busy hitting back to deal with human trafficking
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Why is Singapore on US’s Human Trafficking Watch??
- ST Forum: Capture more accurate data with broader criteria
- Free Malaysia Today: Stuff your report, Singapore to US

YOG
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Singapore Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Engine: Revving Up The Gears?
- funny little world: I am so sick of the Y-effing-O-G.

Religion
- Sze Zeng: Religious harmony in a given pluralistic society

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Sg Truth: Pastor Kong Hee and Wife Live like Hollywood Stars [Thanks cglak]

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: I shall now “promote homosexuality”, part 1
- New Asia Republic: A Street Light Problem
- The Temasek Review: NUS Alumni leaked Confidential Personal Data to Standard Chartered Bank
- Yu-Mei Balasingamchow: Regulate, don’t censor leh

Life, the universe and everything
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Filial Piety — Father and Son

Selected News Stories
- APF: Australians sue Singapore Power over 2009 firestorm
- The Star: The dark side of the boom
- Far News Agency: Singapore Underlines Iran’s N. Rights
- The Asia Mag: You’re Our Bargaining Chip, Our GDP
- the Independent: Aung San Suu Kyi’s desperate plea to the world
- Reuters: You Work From Home…So What?
- NYT Wheels: Honda Reveals New 2011 Odyssey

June 21st, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

” In the case of judicial torture, all of society is implicated every time a struggling, screaming man is beaten in our name.”
Jolene Tan

“If US Trafficking Report is “political ritual”, then what about town council report?”
SgDino

“The mainstream media has perpetuated precisely what the mandatory death penalty seeks to do: de-individualize those it condemns.”
Choo Zheng Xi

“Lots of Freaky news. You KNOW they will happen. Again. and again… How prepared are we?”
Matha Lee

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June 19th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Irreligious: Jack Neo’s new movie to screen during City Harvest Church services
- Fit to Post: Pastor’s wife questioned by police

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Low Thia Khiang rebuts Grace Fu’s latest assertions
- The Temasek Review: A complacent government or an absolute clueless one?
- TOC: Confused by S&CC arrears management score?

The Great Flood of Orchard
- Mathia Lee: Freak Flash Flood
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Blame the small drains for Orchard Road Flood!
- Singapore Dino: Where is Yaacob Ibrahim hiding?
- Levin: Repeating Somebody
- Cooler Insights: NTUC Income Scores with Flooding Ad
- Midnight Monkey Monitor: Let the flooding begin! [Thanks Andy]
- The Big Picture: European flooding [large pics]
- The Frame: Spring floods around the globe [large pics]

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Bloomberg: Norway, Sovereigns Lose $5 Billion on BP After Spill (Update1)

We are against capital punishment
- Rachel Zeng: Press conference at the Malaysian Bar Council

New Creation New Kids On The Dock
- ST Forum: On evangelists and religious convictions

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: Moving towards plant-based diets

Daily Discourse
- Mathia Lee: Strategies for individuals: how to ensure secularism in Sg
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Sign to support arts community proposal on censorship and regulation

Life, the universe and everything
- blankanvas: the human network
- singularity industries: The Fire Fight Say So Long, For Now.

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Asia Imposes Curbs to Slow Expanding Property Bubbles (Update1)
- Bloomberg: China Property Bubble to Burst ‘Very Quickly,’ Nomura Says
- Reuters: Q+A-Is China finished as a low-wage manufacturer?
- NYT: Q. and A.: Doing Business in China
- Guardian: Spring floods around the globe
- Visual Economics: How The World Spends Its Time Online

June 18th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kato Sayaka 加藤沙耶香 (born 9 Aug 1985) is a gravure idol. Also known as Katosaya (かとさや) or Saya-nee (さやねぇ), Sayaka was part of the idol group Idoling!!! (アイドリング!!!), which she graduated from in March 2009. Pictures from her Image TV March 2009 photoshoot after the break.

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June 18th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

The Great Flood of Orchard
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: TNP 1999 : Why Orchard Road will NEVER flood..
- Nomadism: Orchard road…soaked up to knee level
- Sgpolitics.net: “Once in 50 year event” just happened again!
- The Lycan Times: Sungei Orchard
- Want some tau huay?: Something big happened in Orchard Road, and no, it wasn’t the Great Singapore Sale
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Freak Flood again? (Now at Orchard Road)
- mrbrown: Someone call the Minister of Freak Incidents! Orchard Road flooding!
- funny little world: Help! Help! I can’t swim!
- TOC: Orchard Road flooded (Updated)
- Vinyarb: Today’s Orchard Flood is just the beginning [Thanks Richard]
- Wild Shore of Singapore: Sea level rise in Singapore: what effects?
- Reuben, Dewen, Guo Ann: Mapping Potential Sea Level Rise in Singapore
- My Sketchbook: Flooding at orchard road
- EDMW: [GPGT] Ochard Road Flooded!!
- Bloomberg: Singapore Faces More Rain After Orchard Shopping District Flood

Countdown to Elections
- Yawning Bread on Wodpress: Good counterpunches by Workers’ Party chief

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- The Temasek Review: Who should accept responsibility for the security lapse at SMRT Depot?
- TOC: Take responsibility, SDP tells PAP government

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Media’s silence on Yong Vui Kong a national shame
- TOC: Malaysian Law Minister not aware of Yong’s case
- IPS: Counsel Hold Out Hope for Youth on Death Row in Singapore [via Jacob 69er]

New Creation New Kids On The Dock
- The Logical Christian: Understanding Pastor Mark
- Kaffein-nated: Where is the line?
- AP: Singapore church apologizes for mocking Taoism

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Singapore’s ‘G’ Mail: An Exercise In Redundancy And Bureaucracy

Life, the universe and everything
- EcoWalktheTalk: Better labelling of GM foods in Singapore essential
- Bernard Leong: The End of the Free Market by Ian Bremmer
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore gets iTunes on iPhone! But you still can’t buy music.

Selected News Stories
- ST Forum: Is MBS operating like a dedicated casino?
- PC World: StarHub CEO Not Sure Singaporeans Need Fiber to the Home

June 17th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- covered in his blood: Salt and Light…how I see it.
- Mass Validation: Plagiarism in the church (?)
- A Mummy’s Biz: Plagiarism? Pastor Kong Hee of CHC
- Thoughts attic: I was from CHC
- Tents of Issachar: More Ho-Doms…
- Jesus Christ Is Lord: Non-Biblical Teachings Of Kong Hee Of City Harvest Church [Thanks Ken]

New Creation New Kids On The Dock
- Irreligious: Atoning for past mistakes
- The Logical Christian: New Creation Church Faces Up To The Inconvenient Truth
- Singaporean Skeptic: What’s the big deal?

Singapore Human Trafficking Hub
- TOC: S’pore not doing enough to curb human trafficking, says US
- Singapore Dino: If US Trafficking Report is “political ritual”, then what about town council report?
- SMH: Human trafficking claims upset Singapore
- Bloomberg: Singapore, Thailand Backslide in Trafficking Fight (Update2)
- AFP: US puts Singapore, Thailand on human trafficking watch list
- The Star: Malaysia’s status upgraded in US human trafficking report

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: What Singapore’s opposition can learn from Malaysia’s Pakatan Rakyat
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: What happens at the ballot box…

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- ST Forum: A safe-to-fail mentality will only breed complacency
- TOC: Spotting a terrorist

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: Fighting for a life.

Twilight in Paradise
- singapost: The land where the poor and the old crush cans [Thanks Ravi]

The Beautiful expensive Game
- The Gigamole Diaries: Teaching a new ball old tricks…
- department of crappy engineering: the making of jabulani
- NYT Goal: A Short History of World Cup Goalkeeping Blunders ( videos )

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Competition watchdog shows it will bite
- Ravi Philemon: Investigation of ‘anti-PAP’ flier
- I’m getting personal: Fostering better ties with our neighbours: A foreign policy must
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Tender Loving Society

Life, the universe and everything
- Tiny Island: French Girl in a Singapore Household: Culture Shock
- Anonymous_X: Bausch & Lomb HD moment : why the hell Masaru left… [Thanks wacky_artz]

Selected News Stories
- USA Today: Singapore counts on casino resorts to draw tourists
- Bangkok Post: Thaicom ‘won’t hurt Singapore ties’
- M&C: Maggot farts to the rescue
- Denvor Post: Captured: Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday Report Released (large pics)

June 16th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- The Logical Christian: Facing Up To The Inconvenient Truth
- Simply Gab: CHC: Greed & Faith is a powerful combination

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Chiam responds to TCMR report
- TOC: Disclose additional funding received by PAP TCs : Low tells MND

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Singapore Story: From Third world to Whorehouse.
- The Temasek Review: The dark side of unrestrained immigration: a family’s plight

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Bloomberg: Thaicom Surges on Thailand Plan to Buy Temasek Stake (Update1)

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: H1N1 pandemic and a WHO conspiracy?

We are against capital punishment
- Rachel Zeng: Silence on Yong’s coming execution in S’pore

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The Quest to be Gainfully Employed: Distance-based Fares are but public transport fare hikes in disguise [Thanks sharon]
- ST Forum: Does MRT no-drinking rule apply to babies?

National Service
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: 10 years ago..

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Arts group: “Censorship isn’t working: regulate instead”
- Arts Engage: No to censorship, regulate instead
- Mr Wang Says So: The Bigger the Gang..
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Support young S’porean artist in democracy video contest
- The Asia File: Mahathir: Politicians who sue critics are cowards
- ST Forum: Self-help instead of relying on police

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: So Long For Now: The Fire Fight Says Farewell
- The boy who knew too much: Ridzwan Dzafir, Mr. Asean, Pondok Boy.
- Eco Walk The Talk: Being a Locavore in Singapore
- The Long and Winding Road: Grown men prancing on cardboard horses: Kuda Kepang

Selected News Stories
- BBC: Is the era of cheap Chinese labour almost over?
- NYT: In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life
- Room for Debate: What Do China’s Workers Want?
- Wise Bread: Reclaiming Etiquette: Dining Basics for New Professionals
- SMH: Honda hatches new Civic
- Free Money Finance: Money and the World Cup
- The Frame: World Cup opening ceremony ( Large photos )
- Laugh Lines: World collapse explained in 3 minutes

A message from our friends in the arts community

No to censorship, regulate instead

What is censorship of the arts? It is the control of content, prevention of production and prohibition of presentation, of artistic expressions.

In censorship, ideas and material considered objectionable or problematic by the censor, are suppressed, and often justified as an attempt to protect minors and adults from content that would apparently harm them. But is that really the case?

The value of the arts is not only in their entertainment, but also in the ways in which the arts provides us with food for thought, broadens our perspectives and gives us new insight to the world around us.

Isn’t it your right to decide what would or would not be objectionable to you?

The position of the arts community paper on Censorship and Regulation is for regulation – an independent, unexceptional and impartial process of providing information about content that allows art to be produced as intended, and for you to choose what you would experience and enjoy.

Click here to know more.

Who is Arts Engage?

Arts Engage is a network of arts practitioners from various disciplines coming together to discuss the policies that govern and impact their respective practices. Started by members of the Arts Community egroup, Arts Engage is intended to be used by arts community members who wish to engage in issues of art practice, such as censorship, funding, spaces, intellectual property, making a living as an artist, position of art/artists in society, etc., in a more focused manner. Media contact: email to ArtsEngageMedia@gmail.com

June 15th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- Gerald Giam: ‘Underwhelmed’ by Town Council report
- Yaw Shin Leong: Empathy, empathy, where art thou?
- Singapore Dino: Town Council report “divorced from reality”
- TOC: Cleaner estates? Consider paying more, says minister
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP has the cheek to condemn Potong Pasir
- The Temasek Review: Opposition MPs pour scorn on report which gives their Town Councils the lowest scores
- Singapore Notes: Pay First, Maintenance Later

Kong Hee Doing The Ming Yi
- Irreligious: City Harvest’s financial statement on the Internet
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: City Harvest Church
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Churches in society — a force for good or not?
- Sze Zeng: A theological-political reflection over the happening at City Harvest Church
- The Temasek Review: Senior Pastor Kong Hee accused of plagiarism

Fricker and Loyld Do Singapore
- TOC: Excuse me, have you seen Raymond and Kan Seng?
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Comic Opera
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: First Time Seen In Singapore
- The Temsek Review: SMRT Fiasco: A case of dumb and dumber
- department of crappy engineering: train for creativity
- TOC: Caning violates international norms
- Balderdash: “The reason why Mr. Lee Kwan Yew has no Facebook Friend.”

We are against capital punishment
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Why we don’t chop off hands
- Rachel Zeng: Yong Vui Kong finally catches Malaysian media’s attention

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: Citizen X
- The Temasek Review: The realities of Permanent Residents (PRs) who come and go

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: GIC: Shld have read this before buying BP
- Guardian: Q&A: BP’s dividend
- Room for Debate: Can the U.S. Punish BP’s Shareholders?

The Beautiful expensive Game
- ambiguity: The Evils Of Our Telcos
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How to watch soccer for free on the Internet
- motochan: Watch World Cup 2010 for Free
- My Little Corner: Watching World Cup 2010 for free
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore TV licence: why can’t it fund World Cup?
- Ian On The Red Dot: Football Fans Of Singapore – Show Your Football Knowledge

Daily Discourse
- TOC: A local hero deserving of a National Day award
- Want some tau huay?: The Straits Times: Why I don’t read it
- The Temasek Review: Serving up a dish of slow-cooked frog leg stew, Singapore style
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker’s Corner, 12 June

Life, the universe and everything
- Eco Walk The Talk: Contraction & Convergence: An urgent global imperative to tackle Climate Change [Thanks Bhavani]

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Going public with grievances
- LankaWeb: Lee Kuan Yew rewrites Sri Lankan HISTORY!
- The Green Arrow: Lee Kuan Yew: Race Realist of Singapore
- ShareInv.com: Singapore, In U-Turn On Bank Secrecy, Seeks Tax Deal With US
- The Anniston Star: Rolling the dice
- Daily Finance: Why Singapore Is a Millionaire Magnet
- Bloomberg: Asia ready to redefine trade relations in talks
- NYT: A Labor Movement Stirs in China
- Mint: Who Owns The World’s Gold
- Crack Two: 10 Most Beautiful Waterfalls of the World
- Guardian: Greenpeace competition to redesign the BP logo

June 14th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“Behold, the Devil is most of all within ourselves, our unholy desires manifested in the constant temptations of material culture.”
Gerald Tan

“His biggest mistake is to forget that Singapore is not Switzerland..”
Lucky Tan

“Oliver would invariably be deported. SMRT should immediately re-invite him, together with the real McKoy (Llyod Dane Alexander) and other graffiti artists back to Singapore, for a graffiti marathon… That, imho, would kick ass!”
motochan

“Is it a coincidence that the two lowest-scoring wards are opposition-run ones and the two best-scoring are helmed by the PM and the MM?”
Andrew Loh

“Is this single-minded desire to get these two culprits and make a big show of punishing them simply distracting from the real issues here?”
Kirsten

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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June 12th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment