The Singapore Daily

“..what does the never ending accumulation of money, and our reserves, mean to ordinary Singaporeans?”
Leong Sze Hian

“It’s just… YPAP members seem to have some sort of mockery lightning rod on them.”
theinkhorn

“There is no place for complacency, and telling that to Singaporeans would be like preaching to the converted, and insinuating that we do otherwise would be an insult, especially to those who are excellent in their own way.”
Tan Qin Shan

“Working till you drop, as the saying goes, seems to be the new economic philosophy of the government.”
Andrew Loh

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October 30th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Cheaper, better, faster till 70 and beyond?
- funny little world: Just sayin’…
- Today Voices: Excellence or perfection?
- Kaffein-nated: Food for Thought: The lowest denominator

Countdown to Elections
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP cabinet reshuffle: A demotion or promotion for Wong Kan Seng?
- Singapore Notes: The Fun Game Of Musical Chairs
- The Temasek Review: Serial Numbers on Votes (revisited)

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- FT.com: Bocker’s ASX-SGX dream turns into a nightmare
- SMH: A loathsome deal that should be given bargepole treatment

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Feed Me To The Fish: I did not have a $8 Bypass but can vote for me?
- Musings From the Lion City: Better Headlines Please!

Temasek Reviewname
- Jacob 69er: Singapore’s new weapon against dissent

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Casinos: Adding more pieces to jigsaw?

We are against capital punishment
- Singapore Notes: Don’t Make Him Angry, You Wouldn’t Like Him When He’s Angry

Daily Discourse
- TOC: George Yeo says Burma election is a “major step forward”
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Toy Hazards In Singapore? Case Cannot Do It Alone
- this is premium writing, no?: Culture of fear
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore Sports School: too harsh on smoking?
- The Kent Ridge Common: NUS Fashion Police takes voyeuristic photos of undergrads
- The Enquirer: And the real buzz in the city is?

Life, the universe and everything
- department of crappy engineering: post no e-bill
- Boys.Girl: We took the train from Singapore (Tanjong Pagar Railway Station) to Johor (JB)
- The Long and Winding Road: The Changi Village that I loved
- under a Pipala Tree: Downstairs

Infoblogoramus
- XinYun @ SG: Event: MPH Books Sale
- Students at Centrestage: A Seminar on Learning History in Singapore [Facebook]

Selected News Stories
- Sky News: Exclusive: Former BP Boss Hayward In Talks With Temasek
- TechCrunch: Singapore: Why Innovate in Utopia?
- The Yale Herald: Yale spin-off to open in Singapore
- NASDAQ: Currency wars reach Singapore
- FTP: Remembering SQ006: 10 years on
- Christian Post: S’pore Churches Face Crisis of Bible Illiteracy: Theologian
- Andy Xie: Short-term Capital, Streaming and Steaming
- Tom’s Guide: PlayStation Phone, PSP2 Could Be Same Device
- SCores: Is Google a Monopoly? [Infographic]

October 29th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Japanese idol Risa Kudo 工藤里紗 (born 4 Oct 1983) is a model and actress. The Kanagawa native sold Coca Cola at Jingu Stadium and worked in a tavern before her debut as a gravure idol in December 2004. Risa’s first printed work was in the Be GIRLS photobook, under her real name Mizukawa Seiko. Risa is most well-known outside Japan for an appearance in an episode of the Nippon TV series Haken no Hinkaku (2007) and the films Love Letter Ao-renka and Rabu Kon (Lovely Complex) in 2006, and Sleeping Flower in 2005.

Pictures from Risa’s photobook ISLANDS after the break. [PNSFW]
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October 29th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- innersanctum: Economism
- My Little Corner : Inflation is up 3.7%
- TOC: The relentless rising cost of living in Singapore

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Unapologetically Socialist – Goh Meng Seng (Part Two)
- The Temasek Review: Tanjong Pagar GRC could see its first electoral contest since 1991
- Life of a simple boy: Something that frighten me for once…
- VotingRp: Gathering Momentum.

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- flaneurose: SGX buying ASX: There are projects and there are “projects”
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Australians Worried about Another Singaporean Investment
- Bloomberg: Singapore Exchange’s Bocker Faces Revolt Over ASX Takeover
- Crikey: Xenophobia, incompetence and foreign investment wars
- Reuters: Singapore Exchange’s bid for ASX faces nationalistic snags

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Khaw Boon Wan’s $8 bypass….
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: $8 bypass operation

Housing Singaporeans
- Yours Truly Singapore: S’poreans driving private property market, says Mah

We are against capital punishment
- The Void Deck: Oh Oh, Ravi’s Baaaaaack
- FTP: S’pore lawyer in hot soup after angry tirade at journalists
- Singapore Law Watch: Expletives fly, glass shatters at lawyer’s press conference [Thanks angryman]

Daily Discourse
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: No sponsor? No support for the Singapore teams getting lost and losing weight
- Webs@Work: DVB Video Reveals Burma’s Nuke Ambitions

Life, the universe and everything
- Clearly you’ve never been: The Up Escalator Forever: Bowie in Singapore
- deadpris: I forgot what blogging is until…
- CNET: Are you paying too much for SingTel’s Multi-SIM plan?

Selected News Stories
- The 2010 Legatum Prosperity Index Table Rankings: Singapore – 17 [Thanks Adrian]
- Asia Times: Fewer foreigners wanted in Singapore
- NYT: Stuyvesant Town’s Lenders Take Over Property

October 28th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Triple whammy – inflation, ERP, credit cards
- The Pattern Trader: The Little Red Dot Gets More Expensive
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Globalisation – A Bane or Boon For Singaporeans?
- Sgpolitics.net: Nourishing the People
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Limits To What Government Can Do
- My sketchbook: Inflation creeping up in Singapore
- Today Voices: Shun ‘profit at all cost’ mindset

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SGX takeover of ASX faces political opposition..
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SGX: Will Ozzies trust it to do the right thing?
- Singapore Notes: Your Money Not Good Enough
- Singapore Sojourn: Eruptions
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Compare & contrast
- The Australian: ASX Singapore merger in political crossfire
- SMH: Robb cautions against early ASX talk

Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Dino: Has Zaqy Mohamad forgotten what MM Lee and PM Lee said about Malays?
- this is premium writing, no?: An Important Announcement

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore Notes: That $8 Bill For Surgical Bypass In Singapore
- ST Forum: Why insurers, agents may turn a deaf ear to SM Goh’s appeal

Housing Singaporeans
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Pain of higher interest rate

Speak angmo preese
- Balderdash: Stephen Fry on English, and Pedantry

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Dear Public Service, Are You Really Listening To Us?
- ST Forum: Understand the public better
- New Asia Republic: Preventing suicide among Singaporeans
- ST Forum: Worrying times ahead for Law class of 2011?
- The boy who knew too much: Singapore’s strange media silence. [Thanks Valentine]

Life, the universe and everything
- Kelvin Teo Writes: What really happened when I was last at KRC
- Loh and Behold: Facebook is NOT your Friend
- The Kent Ridge Common: Upfront with: Sarah Cheng De-Winne

Infoblogoramus
- blankanvas: gaspp me!
- MURUAH: A Vote…But Choice? A call for rigour in the Myanmar/Burma elections! [Facebook]
- Free Burma Campaign Singapore: No To Burma’s Sham Election (Singapore) [Facebook]

Selected News Stories
- Reuters: 15 Nobel laureates ask G20 to raise Liu case
- NYT: Consumerism in Japan, and Beyond
- The New Yorker: E-Mail Auto-Response [Thanks Adrian]
- Fixr: Who wants to be a president [infographic]

October 27th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Unapologetically Socialist – Goh Meng Seng (Part One)
- The Temasek Review: Forecast for upcoming GE
- Words of the Cze: Agincourt
- The Temasek Review: General Elections 2010/11: Trust what Trust ?
- Lee Wai Leong Facebook: How to win an election [Thanks Wai Leong]

Temasek Reviewname
- The Temasek Review: Temasek Review agrees to sell its domain name for US$1.00
- The Temasek Review: Open letter to TNP’s Koh Hui Theng and Ng Wan Ching

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The numbers don’t stack up for SGX
- FOOD fuels me to talk: SGX, ASX merger: it’s a baaaad thing
- Breakingviews: Magnus thinks big
- WSJ: SGX Bid for Australia Exchange Misses Mark
- Herald Sun: Bob Brown links Singapore human rights to Australian Stock Exchange merger
- Bloomberg: Singapore’s ASX Takeover Igniting Speculation in Malaysia
- Business Spectator: THE DISTILLERY: Singapore swipes
- Korea Times: ‘Government scared Temasek to sell’

Twilight in Paradise – CPF
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: PAP MP’s Latest Fear Mongering
- Times They Are A-Changin’: The Model Singaporean Workers

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PMETs and cohesiveness in our society.

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Did The Minister Contradict His Ministry? [Thanks George]

Re education
- St Forum: School closure: Help S’poreans who have no protection

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: It’s up up and away for the ERP charges!

Blueprint for a Sin City
- ST Forum: Casinos catering more to S’poreans than tourists?

Hazy days are here again
- The Lycan Times: Forest Fires and Smoky Skies

Daily Discourse
- innersanctum: labels and queer theology
- Small steps for Social PR: Are SG telcos giving subscribers mobile phone numbers to premium partners?
- TOC: Nobel for Liu “inherently political”
- MURUAH: MARUAH’s response to Temasek Review article

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: Poor Online PR
- must have been good: Kiechle’s captures of various void decks
- Singapore Sojourn: 2011 Art Calendar To Share

Infoblogoramus
- Jacob 69er: Say No To Burma’s Sham Election @ Hong Lim Park on 30th Oct
- XinYun @ SG: Event: Portfolio Show for Young Designers 2010

Selected News Stories
- TopNews: Fifty-Percent Increase in the Number of Women Suffering from HIV in Singapore
- RTTNews: Singapore Sep Consumer Prices Rise More Than Expected
- NYT: WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Trailed by Notoriety
- Guardian Travel: The world’s greatest attractions

October 26th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- Sgpolitics: ELECTION ISSUE: Sky-high HDB Flat Prices
- The Temasek Review: A clarification on Buona Vista and Vote Secrecy
- Singapore 2025: David Marshall of Singapore
- Jacob 69er: Why is SDP not included in National University of Singapore Students’ Political Association forum?
- TOC: Meet Danny, the SDP’s latest addition
- under a Pipala Tree: Bradell Heights SMC
- Molitics: Dedication to PAP MPs
- The Star: Election buzz is in the air
- My sketchbook: Opposition parties smell blood in up coming election
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Just a funny thought
- FTP: Opposition parties interested in SMCs from Marine Parade GRC

We are against capital punishment
- ambiguity: Right To Vengeance?
- funny little world: YPAP: Vengeance killing is a human right.
- The Temasek Review: The Temasek Review Talks to Alan Shadrake
- Reporters Sans Frontieres: Petition appeals for acquittal of British journalist Alan Shadrake

Minimum Wage
- Yours Truly Singapore: Minimum wage policy won’t work: Employers, labour chief
- Today Voices: Win-win for cleaners, firms

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: S’pore Inc: SGX’s bid for ASX
- TOC: Ever bigger financial deals: how does it benefit S’poreans?

Re education
- The Asia File: American academic in Singapore casts doubt on Yale tie-up
- Musings From the Lion City: Tough but Good

Housing Singaporeans
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part XI – Currency war may fuel bubbles – Impact on Mid Range & Luxury Class Properties

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Views of A Singapore Migrant In Switzerland

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Joo Chiat fire – an old issue surfaces

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- The Void Deck: Supreme Court of Judicature Act Amendments

Blueprint for a Sin City
- TOC: 3.85 million S’poreans have visited the casinos so far?

Speak angmo preese
- The Lycan Times: Singlish & Proper English

Hazy days are here again
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Hazy Solutions to an Annual Problem
- guanyinmiao’s musings: A Hazy Affair: Singapore And ASEAN’s Diplomatic Failings
- Abdillah Zamzuri: The Haze
- AFP: Haze Highlights Weak Asean Cooperation: Analysts

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Is Braema Mathi of MARUAH a PAP plant?
- TOC: Burma elections – a campaign and a demonstration at Speakers’ Corner
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Engineer who used to earn $100,000 a year jobless for 20 months
- The Kent Ridge Common: NUS student pushes for NUSSU individual voting rights
- ST Forum: $9,000 in phone bills for service they didn’t subscribe to
- ST Forum: Quick cash loophole

Life, the universe and everything
- Words of the Cze: The Mean
- Bernard Leong: Thoughts on “The Social Network”
- Weekday Blues: Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’

Infoblogoramus
- TOC: Are you angry at social injustice and inequity?
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 23-30 Oct

Selected News Stories
- Reuters: Asia’s couture craving feeds Singapore’s haute hopes
- NYT: Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel
- TechCrunch: Now You Can Follow Stocks On Twitter. stocks, Not People.

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

“..Singapore is not just for the elitists… Singapore is also made up of the aunties who contributed to our economic success in the past, but collects cardboard boxes and sell them for a living now. It is also for that young aspiring and working adult trying to make living and start or support a family.”
Nabs

“Lee Kuan Yew once declared that the “Chinese want better lives”. He should heed his own advice to the Chinese and deliver this to his own people. Singaporeans want better live..”
InSpir3d

“As a taxpayer-funded agency, HDB should not be trying to set design benchmarks—or worse, boost their profits like private developers do.”
Gerald Giam

“..the next tyrant of Singapore or China may not govern in the manner advocated by their brilliant one-off predecessors. There simply is no guarantee, and people must know this.”
dlzj

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October 23rd, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Temasek Reviewname
- TOC: Temasek, in review
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: A Tale of Two Citings [Thanks DP]
- My sketchbook: Temasek Holding vs Temasek review website

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: HDB should focus on building basic, functional flats
- Gerald Giam: We have already lowered our housing expectations, Mr Minister

Countdown to Elections
- Sgpolitics.net: Democrats to stage bigger and better Rally 2

We are against capital punishment
- Jacob 69er: How the Singapore Government made “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock” a bestseller

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- De Leviathan @ SG: The New Millennium Dream In Retrospective

Hazy days are here again
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Haze and the Politics between Singapore and Indonesia
- TOC: Smog hits “unhealthy range”, NEA website down

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- The Temasek Review: Temasek Holdings loses $270m in South Korea
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Our SWFs juz lost S’pore S$685million [Thanks Adrian]

The great Spore floods
- TOC: PUB to prove MM Lee wrong

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- My sketchbook: Teaching SMRT a lesson by giving it a fine of $300!

Re education
- Today Voices: Private school closure calls into question how school loans are disbursed

Daily Discourse
- Icarus Flew Too High: Dictatorship, better than Democracy?
- Singapore Notes: The Many Flavours Of Justice
- deadpris: Hey OCBC, Alzheimer Doesn’t Mean Useless!
- My Little Corner: I really wonder what’s the consultation all about
- Balderdash: Observations – 21st October 2010

Life, the universe and everything
- Subba’s Serendipitous: Facebook overtakes Google in eyeballs. What next?

Selected News Stories
- ZDNet: S’pore govt taking cautious approach to social media
- The Australian: Singapore’s casinos leave the Las Vegas trappings
- The Star: Turning rhetoric into reality
- Guardian: Silence of the dissenters: How south-east Asia keeps web users in line
- SMH: Striking a balance in Australia’s immigration future
- NYT: Quote of the Day: Bush on the $700 Billion Bailout [Thanks Adrian]
- Phandroid: First Android Gingerbread Details
- Tech65.org: HTC Windows Phone 7 3x First Looks
- Engadget: HTC HD7 review

October 22nd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希 is a fashion model and gravure idol from Akita prefecture. She started modeling when she won two modeling competitions – Young Jump’s GYARUKON Grand Prix 2005 and Princess Pinky Grand Prix 2006.

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October 22nd, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

We are against capital punishment
- The Asia File: Will Alan Shadrake verdict affect Yale’s plan to set up a college in Singapore?
- TOC: No reason to depart from Inherent Tendency Test – DPP
- TOC: DPP’s statement “a serious imputation on my character” – M Ravi
- AFP: Singapore wraps up case against British author

Countdown to Elections
- On Nation and State: Work with the PAP? What Public Choice Theory has to offer.
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: How well-off are we?
- Gerald Giam: Start a conversation…about politics
- I’m getting personal: Danny has a new enemy

Housing Singaporeans
- Temasek Hedge: Singapore mass market property buyers and sellers badly disagree on property prices in September

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Notes: A Must Have Collectible
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Boycotting 7 November: Being Principled Rather than Pragmatic
- My Queenstown: What Bulls*** about Conservation of Built Heritage? [Thanks Yazhi]
- ST Forum: A rotten egg breeds no chicken
- Today Voices: Elderly and exploited

Life, the universe and everything
- Otterman speaks: Hazy days are here again
- Irreligious: A church in Geylang
- The Long and Winding Road: A walk down the Bukit Timah corridor: Wandering along the new railway and rediscovering the old
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: How Forethought Separates the Good from the Great [Thanks Justin]
- SINdie: Review: Tiong Bahru (Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy) [Thanks Yazhi]

Selected News Stories
- CNNGo: How Europe is killing Singaporean football
- The Chief Officers’ Network: Tiger / AirAsia spat turning ugly
- WSJ: U.S. Man Faces Caning in Singapore
- Sikkim News: Human trafficking racket busted
- NYT: Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened
- The Star: What is REITS and how to get monthly dividend payments from it

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

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: “This proceeding itself scandalises the judiciary” – M Ravi
- Abdillah Zamzuri: For He’s A ‘Jolly’ Good Fella!
- funny little world: Has Alan Shadrake scandalised the judiciary?

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Under The Willow Tree: Time for Lee Kuan Yew to learn from Deng Xiaoping’s Legacy
- Musings From the Lion City: Unbalance Economy
- Singaporean Skeptic: The Future of Singapore?

Countdown to Elections
- Icarus Flew Too High: Of Politics and Mascots

Housing Singaporeans
- FTP: Are million dollar HDB flats going to be the norm?

Daily Discourse
- The Kent Ridge Common: Haze — whose problem is it?
- Singapore Notes: Putting Singapore On The World Map
- Loyalty is Orange: The Ban on Smoking By Decapitation

Life, the universe and everything
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: Resignations at SingaporeSailing are part and parcel of leadership changes
- Support Site for The Unemployed: 7 Ways To Overcome Disappointment Of Job Rejection

Infoblogoramus
- Singapore Educamp 1: Event Details

Selected News Stories
- Guardian: Baba Bling: Domestic Signs of Prosperity in Singapore – review
- CNNGo: ‘Civic Life: Tiong Bahru’: The real side of Singapore’s oldest housing estate
- The Star: Grooming future talents to come home
- The Star: The law must not stand still
- TechCrunch: Fear And Loathing At The Wall Street Journal
- Pocket-lint: Sony Internet TV – First Look review

October 20th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Alan Shadrake Trial(Live): Day 1
- TOC: Shadrake’s book a “blatant, contemptuous attack against the judiciary’ – DPP
- TOC: “We shouldn’t be so hypersensitive in reacting” – M Ravi
- TOC: Singapore Justice in the Dock Indeed

Leaving no ones behind
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Income Gap : Too Big to Ignore..
- NYT: Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore

Minimun Wage
- The Temasek Review: Minister Lim Swee Say is the answer to “minimum wage” for all Singaporeans

Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Notes: Surely You Are Not Afraid?

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- It’s all about Amelioration: What Goes Up Never Comes Down

Housing Singaporeans
- The Pattern Trader: Singapore Housing – My View (Retake 2)

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Dengue Proliferation: A Question of Accountability And Responsibility

Re education
- The Gigamole Diaries: Prof Su Guaning steps down as President of NTU

Daily Discourse
- Barnyard Chorus: On Women’s Charter: What About the Menz!?
- New Asia Republic: Solving the Central Problem of Economics
- thisISmyPEN: Does society need communication and literature students?
- The Gigamole Diaries: Lilly Singapore Center for Drug Discovery gets the chop
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: F1 & “nation-building, constructive” media
- Today Voices: Clean up treatment of cleaners

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Female Character Flowchart
- Musings From the Lion City: It’s Time Is Over

Infoblogoramus
- The Enquirer: LIVE Coverage of Ministerial Forum

Selected News Stories
- CNNGo: The ‘puppy mills’ of Singapore
- BusinessWeek: Singapore Economy May Fall Into Technical Recession
- WSJ: 2nd UPDATE: Eli Lilly To Close Singapore Drug Discovery Center
- Motorsport.com: Singapore to host at least four more F1 races
- NYT: Torn Between 2 Phones, Again: Android vs. Windows Phone 7
- Engadget: Nokia N8 review

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

Temasek Reviewname
- The Temasek Review: Temasek Review agrees “in principle” to a name change
- TOC: Temasek Holdings’ Letter to Temasek Review
- TOC: TR accedes to Temasek Holdings’ demand
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Temasek Review No More
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: The name of your website has been trademarked by the big boys!

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: Will Workers’ Party form a coalition govt with PAP in event of a hung parliament?
- Loyalty is Orange: WWBTP Do if He Were in Charge of the Elections
- Lee Wai Leong Facebook: Top 10 Misconceptions about Singapore Politics: Part II [Thanks Wai Leong]

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Latest report on GDP raises questions
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Singapore’s strong points are now diminishing

Leaving no ones behind
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Seah Chiang Nee : Super-rich come to Singapore
- The Star: Super-rich come to S’pore

Minimun Wage
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Minimum Wages: Yikes! PAP may be right!

Re education
- ST Forum: Is there a serious educational gap?

Housing Singaporeans
- The Void Deck: Bubble Bubble Bubb…!

Speak angmo preese
- pressrun.net: Melvyn Bragg on Singlish
- funny little world: I am an English native speaker.

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Free or Fair trade?
- Icarus Flew Too High: Kishore’s (Ig)nobel rants
- Weekday Blues: Fair Labour
- Barnyard Chorus: How to tell the world you’re an asshole
- Sam’s thoughts: The right side of correct; the correct side of right
- FTP: Is the Multi-Million Dollar Awards scheme fair for all?

Life, the universe and everything
- Irreligious: I’d like to stay, but..
- TOC: TIONG BAHRU goes global
- Singapore Sojourn: The Ravages Of Time
- Good Morning Yesterday: Capturing Memories through blogs
- EcoWalktheTalk: Why Laughter Is Good For You [Thanks Bhavani]

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Singapore Property Curbs Seen Hurting State-Built Housing Most
- Newsweek: The Minister as Muse
- Reuters: Singapore hotel rooms most expensive in Asia-survey
- Business Insider: Singapore Suffers Shocking Worst-Ever GDP Contraction
- NYT: Why Can’t Singapore Play in Asian League?
- NYT: The Next Bubble
- BBC: Call to define rules of cyber war

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

“If you don’t even acknowledge their existence, how are you even going to start that conversation with kids who are confused (or sure) about their sexuality?”
mjuse

“If the rampant ignorance and prejudicial attitudes concerning the young is anything to go by, the rest that is adult Singapore is in dire need of education.”
Sam Ho

“..you will never find a labor union chief in any other country that will speak out against paying workers a minimum decent living wage.”
Lucky Tan

“By oppressing expression is to breed rebellion, by drawing a line is to invite someone to cross it, by labelling everything either black or white is to lose an entire spectrum of colours.”
the Rudder

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October 16th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

Countdown to Elections
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: General Election on the way?
- Support Site for the Unemployed: Predominant Party System To End Soon in Singapore?
- The Temasek Review: Be realistic about the next General Election
- The Temasek Review: Is the PAP using the deceased Dr Balaji and Mrs Lee to gain public sympathy?
- FTP: Ruling PAP ramps up elections preparations

Temasek Review vs TNP
- The Temasek Review: TR’s editorial team rejects TNP’s journalist Ms. Ng “coffee session” invitation
- Support Site for the Unemployed: Authorities Feeling The Heat On Rising Popularity of Socio-political Sites?

Leaving no ones behind
- squareCircleZ: Singapore wealth – mean and median?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Reducing inequalities: rich benefit too

Ministars Get Rich or Die Tryin
- Singapore Notes: Sure Formula For Richness

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Singapore’s Casino Gamble
- WSJ: Singapore: A Long Way From Vegas

Re education
- Sam’s thoughts: Society needs education, not the ACJC girls
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Empowering Individuals Through Cyber-Wellness Education

National Service
- The Temasek Review: Defending the Lion City: Defend who?

Daily Discourse
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: What Readers (May) Want
- Laïcité – Secularity and Secularism: Radicalism – no single religion’s burden
- Temasek Hedge: As hot money and billionaires continue flight from USD, MAS throws doors open wider
- pressrun.net: US wants to inflate the world: Martin Wolf

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: TOC pays tribute to soccer legend, Dollah Kassim
- Sgpolitics.net: Football legend Dollah Kassim passes away
- Small steps for Social PR: The Bear Youtube video that cried wolf

Infoblogoramus
- Otterman speaks: It’s Blog Action Day today, featuring WATER

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Singapore Risks Recession Bump on Road to World’s Fastest-Growing Economy
- NYT: China’s Elite Feel Winds of Change, but Endure
- BBC: How small acts can change the world [Thanks Adrian]
- TNS Digital Life: Global ‘Digital Life’ research project reveals major changes in online behaviour
- Gizmodo: Test Drive a Driverless Mitsubishi From Your Computer
- CNN: Study: iPhone 4 more fragile than previous models
- DailyTech: Google and Sony Kill the “Dumb” TV, Unleash Google TV
- CNET: Sony Google TVs cost US$599 and up

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

Sayaka Isoyama (磯山さやか) is a famous Japanese gravure, actress and singer. Best known for her role of Ran Saotome (Sazer-Visuel) in the 2003 TV show The Gransazers and the 2006 TV show 2nd House. Pictures from her photobook To Myself after the break.

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October 15th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Countdown to Elections
- SDA Supporter Facebook: Response to Straits Times article “Chiam wants to oust ex-protege from top post”, (by Kor Kian Beng & Tessa Wong) 12 October 201
- The Temasek Review: Singaporeans are going to the poll afterall
- Jacob 69er: Secretary-General of Singapore Democratic Party asks Judge to check PAP’s abuse of power
- TOC: Lily Neo treats the elderly in her ward like her grandma
- Feed Me To The Fish: I’m Not An Elite But Can You Vote For Me?

Minimum Wage
- Singapore Notes: How Low Will They Go?
- Lee Wai Leong Facebook: Min Wage Raises Productivity? Says Who? [Thanks Wai Leong]

Leaving no ones behind
- TOC: Assistance for eldery and poor – whither our priorities?
- TOC: Most needy elderly patients getting Govt subsidies: Really?

Housing Singaporeans
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part X – External Drivers to Watch for Further Price Fall

We are against capital punishment
- The Void Deck: UK Minister Telling Us what to Think on the Death Penalty

Re education
- voix.deviant: a rather sad reality of public schooling [Thanks Ian]

Daily Discourse
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: No tourist? Blame it on those ATAS hotels
- pressrun.net: Singapore economy hit by worst quarter in a year
- pressrun.net: SPH newspaper revenues lower than 2 years ago

Life, the universe and everything
- Weekday Blues: Not Interested… Yet.
- Social Media & Digital Marketing: The Social Network – Movie Review
- under a Pipala Tree: This is a GEM!

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Singapore to Allow Stronger Currency Even as Economy Contracts
- The Globe and Mail: Communist Chinese elders promote free speech in open letter
- USA Today: Facebook partners with Microsoft to slow down Google juggernaut

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

Minimum Wage
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Lim Swee Say : Minimum wage has no place in Singapore…
- Singapore Notes: It’s Just So Scary
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Improve WorkFare not press for Minimum Wage

Temasek Review vs TNP
- Words of the Cze:Cliffhanger
- The Void Deck: Temasek MIA (for now)

Countdown to Elections
- Singapore Alternatives: Dawn of Post-LKY era
- VotingRp: Walk with the Reform Party

Blueprint for a Sin City
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Problem Gambling, Not Gambling Per Se, Should Be The Concern

Daily Discourse
- SALT: One woman’s quest to stop human trafficking around the world.
- ST Forum: Rationale for IPPT changes – Come again?

Life, the universe and everything
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: A short film on dementia — “Going Home”

Selected News Stories
- Eurasia Review: The Singapore ‘Herstory’: From Sophia Raffles to Kwa Geok Choo And Beyond
- Bloomberg: Singapore Economy Probably Slowed, Reducing Scope for Faster Currency Gain
- ZDNet: Malaysia has most online friends globally
- New Scientist: Honeybee disapperance mystery may be solved
- Gizmodo: Behind the Chicken Goop: The Truth and Science of Chicken Nuggets

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