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Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: The Battle For Nee Soon GRC
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: Moulmein-Kallang GRC, Here We Come!
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: The Time Has Come
- The Temasek Review: Opposition parties invited to PKMS’s ‘Unity’ event
- ST: WP hints at possible Nee Soon contenders

Bloggers say
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: This election, your life, your future..
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Singapore Elections Heat Up!
- The Kent Ridge Common: Do opposition figures have roots?
- Singapore Notes: Game On
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Quick analysis of 2006 and 2001 Parliamentary Elections results
- onesingaporean: How the game is played in Singapore [Thanks O]
- kelvinyan73: Is the average Singaporean keen on voting?
- TOC: Civil servants – no longer politically neutral?
- TOC: Election Wishlist
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Sg poll date guessing game: March 19?
- Beatty & Whampoa: Political Daoism in Singapore?
- People Like Us: Singapore political parties’ positions on LGBT concerns – General election 2011
- Sam’s Thoughts: Singapore Political Parties’ Positions On LGBT Concerns – General Election 2011

Electorial Boundaries
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Electoral Boundaries And Gerrymandering: Increasing Committee Transparency
- Sgpolitics.net: Updated list of constituencies eyed by the Opposition
- TOC: Reform Party responds to new Electoral Boundaries report
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Electoral map virgin births
- The Temasek Review: Electoral Boundaries Review – PAP 1 : Singapore 0
- The Lycan Times: Electoral Boundaries Redrawn
- The Itch To Write: After the boundaries are drawn, what’s next?
- The Itch To Write: How to check which constituency are you voting in for GE 2011?
- New Asia Republic: Political Parties discuss Gerrymandering

Reform Party Resignations
- TOC: Reform Party Chairman resigns
- TOC: Former ISA detainee Teo Soh Lung quits RP
- The Temasek Review: A non-partisan analysis on the recent RP exodus
- Icarus Flew Too High: The Reform Party’s Rocky Road
- Where Bears Roam Free: RP Exodus unlikely to be PAP’s work [Thanks A]
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Dr Chee: Pls counsel RP on MSM relations
- SDP: Let us help to resolve RP issue

Budget 2011
- On Nation and State: The political character of the SDP Shadow Budget 2011
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Increasing Foreign Worker’s Levy is a Pre Election Smoke Screen

Singaporeans, a dying breed
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Population policy all at sea
- New Nation: Low birth rate? Don’t discriminate against children from single parent families

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Sgpolitics.net: The PAP’s flawed immigration, foreign talent and foreign worker policies

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Census: So many worked so long for so little?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: At Grave Risk
- Today Online: Room for fresh ideas on income gap [Thanks A]

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- TOC: Without ISA and CLTPA, informants’ lives may be endangered – Govt report
- Molitics: Track Records, Desperation and Stupidity
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore human rights: disgraceful

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- ST Forum: Adding cabs and raising fares won’t solve erratic service

Re education
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Free Singapore Government Scholarships Offered in Malaysia

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Traditional medicine and all that Andy Ho stuff….
- Singapore M.D.: Pricing, Cognitive Dissonance, & How To Charge More

Daily Discourse
- Furry Brown Dog: TOC: The Overkill Censor?
- TOC: TOC – selective censorship?
- Senang Diri: Libya in crisis – Use of mercenaries to put down political unrest and its relevance to Singapore’s internal security
- New Asia Republic: Why Yale Professor Amy Chua should read Catherine Lim’s short stories
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Hard Truths by Dr James Gomez

Life, the universe and everything
- Tiny Island: Why I think My Village is Awesome: The Charming Mall in Serangoon Gardens

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 26 Feb-5 Mar

Selected News Stories
- Monsters and Critics: Singapore defends death penalty in first rights report to UN
- snmovingmedia Youtube: Singapore’s Sand Wars
- Yale Global: Could ASEAN Drift Apart?

February 28th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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87 Members of Parliament
12 single member constituencies
1. Bukit Panjang
2. Hong Kah North
3. Hougang
4. Joo Chiat
5. Mountbatten
6. Pioneer
7. Potong Pasir
8. Punggol East
9. Radin Mas
10. Sengkang West
11. Whampoa
12. Yuhua.

2 four-member GRCs
1. Holland-Bukit Timah
2. Moulmein-Kallang.

11 five-member GRCs
1. Aljunied
2. Bishan-Toa Payoh
3. Choa Chu Kang
4. East Coast
5. Jurong
6. Marine Parade
7. Nee Soon
8. Sembawang
9. Tampines
10. Tanjong Pagar
11. West Coast.

2 six-member GRCs
1. Ang Mo Kio
2. Pasir Ris-Punggol.

This is it. If you want things to change, or if you want things to remain the same, now is the time to convince your family, relatives and friends who you think deserves their vote if they get a chance to.

Singapore General Election 2011
- Sgpolitics.net: Opposition parties study electoral boundaries report and lay stakes
- TOC: New electoral boundaries benefits PAP, says opposition
- The Temasek Review: PKMS: The overall 2011 electoral boundary has no significance
- TOC: The grim reaper in the PMO
- Singapore Democrats: Give at least three weeks for campaigning
- Gerald Giam: This is Home, Truly – Stand up and fight for it!
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Singapore Election Department Drawn Electoral Boundaries
- pressrun.net: Singapore poll constituencies redrawn
- funny little world: My first elections.
- CNA: Reform Party to contest 2 GRCs, 3 SMCs
- CNA: SDA eyes Punggol East, Radin Mas, Mountbatten SMCs
- CNA: Lina Chiam to stand as candidate in Potong Pasir

Reform Party Resignations
- The Temasek Review: Exclusive: Kenneth Jeyaretnam clears the air over ‘mass resignation’
- TOC: Mohd Affendy’s Response to the Ang Pao Incident
- Support Site for The Unemployed: My Short Sour Taste of Political Experience
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Politics in Opposition Politics
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: The Importance of Good Press Releases
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: RP: Media adviser needed
- The Kent Ridge Common: What now, Kenneth?
- Words of the Cze: Under A Cloud
- My Singapore News: Of moles and conspiracies in Singapore politics

Budget 2011
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Budget 2011, The Middle Class Income Stagnation & “Lost” in Retirement Fund

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Mr Wang Says So: Maids and The Singapore Family

Daily Discourse
- TOC: YOG ‘Burn’ case closed
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Market and Economic Update.
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Addressing Cyberbullying: Beyond Awareness And Superficial Engagement
- Lara’s Singapore Blog: At the movies: Singapore is My Home
- TOC: People’s uprisings in Middle East: A true revolution or storm in the teapot

Infoblogoramus
- NUS Museum Presents: A Checkpoint Theatre Production: The Power of Notions/Notions of Power [Thanks Laremy]

Selected News Stories
- Irish Times: Pressure mounts on Eircom as debt advisers called in
- WSJ: Inflation Concerns Rise Around Asia

February 25th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2011
- Singapore Life and Times: Elect Them
- Sgpolitics.net: The Policy of Give and Take
- Ravi Philemon: Think out of the box to solve social issues as well
- Singapore Notes: Machines With No Souls
- Singapore Notes: Of Gods And Animals
- Kaffein-nated: How about this, Mr Gan KY?
- ST Forum: Target white-collar foreigners instead

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: RP Press Release on the departure of nine members
- TOC: Tony Tan and Hazel Poa Responds to RP’s Press Release
- TOC: Reform Party Exodus: Two opposing views
- Sgpolitics.net: Reform Party aftermath: Opposition must stay united
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: The Importance of Good Press Releases
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: RP: Boorish behaviour
- TOC: RP EXODUS – Opposition comments
- FTP: Key members of Reform Party resign

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: What values characterize Singapore?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: CPI 5.5%: Defer fares decrease?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Flying Low: Runaway Maids

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- department of crappy engineering: traditionally placebo, not
- Singapore M.D.: 24 Million Dollars

Singapore is a free country. Free from chewing gum, free from Playboy, free from transparency, free from a free press, free from free speec…
- GNNGo: Elaine Ee-Meyers: Singapore needs to sort out its rules on gay movie scenes

Singapore Coloring
- The Temasek Review: Not a question of Malay loyalty

The Gospel of Harry
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Homosexuality excerpts from Hard Truths

Daily Discourse
- Song of a Reformed Headhunter: The Excitement of Writing in Singapore [Thanks Willy]

Life, the universe and everything
- Vinyarb: My very own UFO snapshot

Selected News Stories
- NYT Wheels: Geneva Auto Show: Nissan Esflow Concept [Thanks G]
- Nature: ‘Walking cactus’ is arthropods’ lost relative
- Tom’s Hardware: Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: February 2011
- Ars Technica: Everything that can go wrong with Windows Phone 7 update does
- SFGate: A Twitter copycat has China talking
- PC Mag: Apple’s Next iPad May Be Hard to Resist

February 24th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2011
- Sgpolitics.net: Don’t stigmatize people who choose to be single
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: A bird’s-eye view of the budget — Addendum 2
- Majulah!: The Addiction of the “Cheap Foreign Labour” Drug
- Singapore Notes: An Education In Spending
- mrbrown: SM Goh weighs in on the 2011 Budget
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore abolish TV and Radio licenses
- AWARE: AWARE calls for data transparency in Budget 2011 amongst others
- TOC: Young PAP Budget Forum: Working to Win in Singapore’s Economy Ahead

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: This election….reflections of a young Singaporean living abroad
- Asia Pacific Memo: Pre-Election Singapore Clamps Down on Social Media

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Chill Out: Growing beyond growth

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Sorry tale of local professors in Singapore

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Is Singapore justice blind?

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Charity Wages: Balancing Competitive Advantage With Genuine Passions
- pressrun.net: Singapore women forward: Time magazine 2001

Selected News Stories
- Bloomberg: Singapore Exchange’s ASX Bid ‘Unusually High,’ Says TSE Head
- Bloomberg: Singapore to Strengthen Currency at April Review, Survey Shows
- Express Advocate Wyong Edition: Bookstore staff’s future uncertain
- Reuters: Chinese workers appeal to Apple over health worries
- TechCrunch: The Next Mass Consumer Social Wave: Political Expression
- Engadget: Exclusive: Sony ‘S2′ dual-screen Android clamshell and 9.4-inch Windows 7 VAIO slider due this year
- The Guardian: Solar storms could create $2tn ‘global Katrina’, warns chief scientist
- New Scientist: Starless planets may be habitable after all
- All Things D: Exclusive: Apple iPad 2 Event Set for March 2

February 23rd, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Budget 2011
- TOC: Budget 2011: Feeling you can get there by working hard
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Hurrah for the Budget? (Yes, for Income Tax)
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: A bird’s-eye view of the budget – Addendum
- Mr Wang Says So: Editorial Indiscretions by the Straits Times
- All Things Singapore: All Things Singapore”>Of the responses to Singapore Budget 2011
- Singapore Sojourn: What is a politician worth?
- Vinyarb: For all the good that SG budget does
- Socialist Front: Singapore Pork Barrel Budget

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: Will Malays again fall for poster Malay elites?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Traditional Chinese Medicine – reply to Dr. Colin Ng

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Notes: Too Hard To Swallow
- Jacob 69er: Antidote to LKY’s Hard Truths

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Islam & Democracy in Singapore: Dialogue towards a Multicultural Society

Life, the universe and everything
- Ong Jiin Joo: A Malaysian Dream (Documentary of Lim Kit Siang)
- Cooler Insights: Braving the (Relaunched) Battlestar Galactica

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Singapore job ads decline
- CNBC: Asia Pacific’s Top Paid Politicians
- BBC: Device ‘could revolutionise blood pressure monitoring’ [Thanks G]
- BBC: Bangladesh farmers fatten crabs on polluted land [Thanks George]
- TechCrunch: Steve Jobs Doesn’t Want to Kill Publishers, But Apple’s Subscription Strategy Will
- Telegraph: New photo of ‘English Nessie’ hailed as best yet
- Letters of Note: siseneG

February 22nd, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2011
- TOC: Budget 2011: Analysis snippets [1] [2]
- New Nation: Jackpot revenues drive a budget of nice gestures
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Budget Goodies….2011
- Sgpolitics.net: Critiquing Budget 2011
- Singapore Recalcitrant: An Election Budget
- Senang Diri: Singapore’s Defence Budget FY 2011/12
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: A bird’s-eye view of the budget
- Words of the Cze: The Lights Above And Below The Clouds
- Singapore Notes: Define Bonanza
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore Budget 2011: reactions
- Furry Brown Dog: Tharman’s $3100 real median income target: Back to the future?
- The Temasek Review: Carrots not enough, says website panel
- Abdillah Zamzuri: A Budget Too Good To Be True
- Singapore Dino: Budget addresses none of our pressing concerns
- Creative Spark: The Kids Aren’t Alright, But We Can Pretend They Are
- My Little Corner: Direct Benefit for Households in Budget 2011
- Icarus Flew Too High: Budget 2011: Post-Budget Propaganda gone wrong
- Singapore Preparedness: Thoughts on the Budget
- pressrun.net: Singapore budget handouts and ministry expenditures
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Truly & really re-generating S’pore
- Rich in Every Sense: Free money from the government. Really?
- flaneurose: Quick Thoughts on Straits Times, 20-21 February 2011
- Insane Polygons: Looking At A Gift Horse In The Mouth
- mrbrown: More Singapore Budget 2011 news
- Singapopore Alternatives: Budget 2011 – Back to Basics
- Singapore Budget 2011: [Official] Budget Speech
- CPF Board: Singapore Budget 2011: Initiatives Relating to CPF
- AWARE Singapore: AWARE’s response to the 2011 Budget
- SDP: SDP exposes Government’s Budget
- VotingRp: The RP’s Response to Budget 2011
- The Reform Party: Reform Party Response To The Singapore Budget, 2010
- National Solidarity Party: NSP Response to Budget Statement 2011
- FTP: S’pore Budget falls short: website panel

Countdown to Elections
- Little Ms Kaypoh: How about ‘Richer, Kinder, Slower’?
- TOC: Foreign Worker Policy and Casinos will “break up” society – Tan Jee Say
- The Temasek Review: Time to reflect?

Singapore is a free country. Free from chewing gum, free from Playboy, free from transparency, free from a free press, free from free speec…
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: What’s more terrifying than sex? Family
- TOC: TOC reader weighs in on gay issue
- Faerie Land: Remind Me Not To Read A Certain Newspaper

Housing Singaporeans
- New Nation: Is HDB a good investment?
- funny little world: A Short Guide to Public Housing in Singapore

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- HANTULAUT: Singapore Malay families seeking economic refuge in JB

Singapore Coloring
- New Asia Republic: Why race exclusion from IC is merely treating the symptom

Singaporeans, a dying breed
- In the Beginning was the Logos: Why the Government Persistently Misunderstands the Low Birth Rate Crisis

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Ex-ISA detainee’s suits thrown out

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: New approach to health care
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: The TCM vs. Western medicine debate — a philosophical and political debate?

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Deterring Fraud In Statutory Boards: Beyond Whistleblowing
- New Asia Republic: Renewable Energy & Cronyism
- TOC: Leong Sze Hian skewed nature of TOC – reader

Life, the universe and everything
- Otterman speaks: Was the tree damage at Mandai Forest really a carnage?
- New Asia Republic: The excitement of writing in Singapore

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 19-26 Feb

Selected News Stories
- FTP: City Harvest Church loses members, staff
- Reuters: Taiwan, HK draw unloved Singapore-listed Chinese firms

February 21st, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Resilience package: The year after
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Govt Performance in Numbers…
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Watch Part VI – In Search of the Older Voters and The Impact of FB Democracy
- groundnotes: Doing the small things well
- Mr Wang Says So: Our Brand New MRT Stations
- choongyong.com: The next 350 days

Budget 2011
- TOC: Improving Singaporeans’ Standard of Living
- TOC: Braema Mathi to speak at TOC Budget Forum
- On Nation and State: A quick reaction to the SDP shadow budget
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Response to Budget 2010
- CNBC: Singaporeans Hope Government’s Surging Revenues Will Flow Their Way

Singapore is a free country. Free from chewing gum, free from Playboy, free from transparency, free from a free press, free from free speec…
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: In Singapore, some thoughts are not All Right
- TOC: MDA: Abnormalizing the normal?
- TOC: Which came first: Homophobia or Censorship?
- Singapore Notes: Double Standards
- Balderdash: Most Singaporeans are still against homosexuality
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: Board of Film Censors said The Kids Are NOT All Right

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: About your landlord..
- AP: Stagnant wages, immigration fuel Singapore squeeze

Singapore Coloring
- Singapore Alternatives: Honest Talk on Race

The Gospel of Harry
- TOC: Govt should hold MM accountable for remarks
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: S’pore Inc: 21 years and still in transition?

CPF
- The Temasek Review: Proposal for CPF Changes

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Arts Education Must Start From Young

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Singapore Notes: The Epitome Of Cool

Daily Discourse
- My Little Corner: Enough on weird MRT station names
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Dr Lim Hock Siew sues NLB and book publisher
- My Singapore News: The Chinese was the worst affected in MTL
- The Temasek Review: NUS Students irate at No-Show by Worker’s Party Youth Leader

Life, the universe and everything
- funny little world: Tru Me – the awesomest pageant!

Selected News Stories
- Property Report: Singapore landed homes to remain hot buys, unaffected by anti-speculation measures
- The Chosun Ilbo: N.Korean Princeling ‘Well Looked-After’ in Singapore
- SMH: Price not the issue in ASX merger
- NYT: Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution [Thanks A]
- Engadget: Exclusive: Sony ‘S1′ PlayStation tablet
- Ars Technica: What is the best way to use a Li-ion battery?
- NYT: The Wristwatch Looks For a New Use
- The Big Picture: World Press Photo: winners [large photos]
- A Smarter Planet Blog: Watson on Jeopardy! Day Three: What We Learned about How Watson Thinks
- NYT: Secrets of a Mind-Gamer. How I trained my brain and became a world-class memory athlete.

February 18th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2011
- TOC: A $60 Billion National Regeneration Plan
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP’s ground-breaking alternative budget challenges the PAP’s economic philosophy
- TOC: No goodies in SDP’s Shadow Budget – CSJ
- TOC: TOC Presents: Budget Forum 2011
- Bloomberg: Singapore May Unveil ‘Bountiful’ 2011 Budget as Election Looms

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: Open letter to Dr Chee Soon Juan

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Mr Wang Says So: The Slow & Steady Deterioration of Singapore
- My Singapore News: No growth better than growth

Singapore Coloring
- TOC: Race Issues in Singapore: Is the HDB Ethnic Quota becoming a farce?

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Jacob 69er: Every oppressed nation needs a ‘Lawyers for Liberty’

The Gospel of Harry
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Social integration, Singapore’s shariah law and Minister Mentor Lee

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: The God of Fortune moment and the making of Singaporean culture
- Singapore Notes: Scantily Clad Babes In Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Balek Kampong, a production of The Necessary Stage
- One-North Explorers: Marsiling Tunnels Unveiled
- Wild Shores of Singapore: First look at Sentosa’s reefs off Serapong

Selected News Stories
- Deccan Chronicle: Miners stashing money in Indonesia, Singapore?
- Epoch Times: Case of Attempted Deportation Goes to Singapore High Court
- Telegraph: Kim Jong-il’s son at Eric Clapton concert [vid]
- Monsters and Critics: Singapore restricts release of Oscar-nominated lesbian film
- CNET: Facebook Places arrives in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan
- Devour: A awesome behind-the-scenes look into Pixar Studios and those lucky bastards that get to work there.
- WSJ: Nokia Shareholders Divided On Strategy View
- NYT: Video: The iPhone for Advanced Beginners [Thanks G]
- Time: Is This the Real Thing? Coca-Cola’s Secret Formula ‘Discovered’

February 17th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2011
- TOC: What’s wrong with the current Singapore growth model?
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: TOC Budget Forum – 19 February 2011
- The Temasek Review: How much will pre-election handouts be this time?

Leaving no ones behind
- Singapore Notes: The Relentless March Of The Gini Coefficient
- For Want of a Better Title: On Household Incomes 2010

Singaporeans, a dying breed
- TOC: Pro-family or pro-baby?
- FTP: Singapore households getting smaller

Housing Singaporeans
- The Temasek Review: Mr Mah Bow Tan fell SHORT

Strangers in a Strange Land
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Addressing Immigration Concerns More Tangibly

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Failing to understand basic economics

The Gospel of Harry
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Better and funnier than Hard Truths

To Fix a Kingmaker
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Gazetting of TOC not politically motivated says Law Minister, K. Shanmugam: No, Minister!

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Jacob 69er: IBAHRI: PAP’s unlawful domestic legislation prevents open political discussion necessary for a democratic society

Singapore Coloring
- My Singapore News: A very controversial statement

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- flaneurose: Crossing the Causeway for Medical Care Affects Everyone
- Mr Wang Says So: Healthcare for Singaporeans in Malaysia
- New Nation: No income, no insurance
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Who cares for the caregiver?
- Singapore M.D.: A New Low for SMA

Daily Discourse
- Weekday Blues: ‘But she danced with me!’ No.

Infoblogoramus
- Project Nimbus: About Us

Selected News Stories
- Zero Emission Motoring: Tesla abandon Singapore, no thanks to the Government
- Yahoo Eurosport: Singapore want ‘rock star’ sailor
- Korean Times: Kim Jong-il’s 2nd son sighted in Singapore
- SMH: Singapore’s new offer just like the old one
- The Asutralian: Opponents not happy with ‘dressed-up’ ASX bid
- Stratfor: Egypt: The Distance Between Enthusiasm and Reality
- MobileCrunch: Hitachi To Offer Super-Advanced Smartphone LCD Display
- The Independent: Search begins for giant new planet. Tyche may be bigger than Jupiter and orbit at the outer edge of the solar system
- MSNBC: Facebook takes over the world, one SIM card at a time
- SlashGear: Recap Of New HTC Smartphones, Tablet, and Announcements From MWC 2011
- The Independent: Handset makers scrambling to make Facebook a central part of their device

February 16th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: TOC speaks to RP’s newest member
- Gerald Giam: Book launch photos

The Gospel of Harry
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The one really cold hard truth…
- Singapore Sojourn: Dr M [Thanks Roger]
- The Temasek Review: Hard Facts on Singapore
- The Owl: Half Truths To Keep PAP Going
- Asia Sentinel: Book Review: Kuan Yew’s Grim Vision

Budget 2011
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP to hold press conference to launch Shadow Budget

Egypt Revolution
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Mabrook Egypt!?
- Furry Brown Dog: The role of the army in popular uprisings

Leaving no ones behind
- TOC: Income up 0.3%: Everyone got govt benefits?

Singapore Coloring
- TOC: Race Issues in Singapore: The need for greater public discussion

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Malaysia’s “balanced growth” better than Singapore’s “higher growth”? (Part 1)

It’s the economy, stupid
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Inflation: The View From The Ground

We are against capital punishment
- The Kent Ridge Common: Is the Death Penalty for Drug Trafficking Justified?

Your National Service
- Singapore Notes: Safety Certified But Not Satisfied

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Political climate change and rising tides, part 2
- TOC: How not to run a Facebook page
- ERPZ: Politics in America: Learn from Singapore?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Yellow Ribbon Singapore: why employers should show compassion
- Noel Boyd: Singapore Tattoo Scene – My thoughts and views…

Life, the universe and everything
- New Nation: Love of the unromantic kind
- blankanvas: 10 tips for moving on

Selected News Stories
- The Harvard Political Review: Dear Thomas Friedman: Serious In Singapore, But So What?
- MonyWeek: Singapore: a cheap play on Asian growth
- The Independent: Trail of the unexpected: Singapore station
- WSJ: Chapter 11 for Borders, New Chapter for Books
- The Age: War looms as Sony hints that it will abandon iTunes
- TechCrunch: A Cavalcade of Slates At MWC 2011
- Supersite for Windows: Nokia + Microsoft: An Analysis of the Strategic Alliance
- Engadget: Exclusive: Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 concept revealed!
- WSJ: Less-Pricey iPhone in the Works
- Wired: Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG and RIM: Mobile World Congress 2011 round-up

February 15th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Government not doing enough say Malays at forum
- Your SDP: Wijeysingha to deliver SDP’s Alternative Budget 2011
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why PAP can’t do coups or violence
- My very lo soh long winded page: pap’s CNY angpows, sharkfin, silver coin..
- FTP: Rift within SDA grows

The Gospel of Harry
- catherinelim.sg: Conviction versus Consensus politicians
- visaisahero: MM Lee and his urgings..
- My insight into the world’s topics: 2 word for MM Lee…and they are not very nice
- Icarus Flew Too High: Hard Truths about Lee Kuan Yew (1)

Budget 2011
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: First they give you oranges, then they squeeze them.
- Singapore Notes: All Inclusive Society Excludes Poor

Egypt Revolution
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mubarak Resigns..
- funny little world: Learning from Egypt.
- Gerald Giam: Egypt’s Mubarak resigns
- Sgpolitics.net: Jaslyn Go congratulates Egyptian opposition leader
- The Temasek Review: Where do the opposition parties stand on mass demonstrations in Singapore?
- Singapore Sojourn: A Lesson To Despots Everywhere [Thanks Roger]
- New Asia Republic: Egypt’s options post uprising
- New Asia Republic: Egypt: Seeds of Change
- The Economist: A marriage of inconvenience
- Project Syndicate: The Reality of Virtual Power
- Project Syndicate: The Poverty of Dictatorship
- Foreign Affairs: Mubarakism Without Mubarak
- The Nation: How Cyber-Pragmatism Brought Down Mubarak
- Guardian: Hosni Mubarak is gone, but can Egypt’s digital revolution unite the country?
- BBC: Are governments closing the net around web freedom?

It’s the economy, stupid
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Should we worry about inflation?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Distribution of SCs, SPRs and non-PR foreigners in the workforce 1997-2010

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- My Singapore News: Rising cost of living an issue in Parliament

CPF
- TOC: CPF’s repeated insistence on woman staying overseas to pay up

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Papers put the spin on sick going to Malaysia..

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Is Singapore’s Education System Too Dependent On Information And Communications Technology (ICT)?
- Kent Ridge Common: Yale Daily News (not Yale) doesn’t want Singapore
- Yale Daily News: News’ View: Keep Yale out of Singapore

Singapore Coloring
- Kent Ridge Common: Why do you want to remove Race from your IC?
- Academia.edu: Politics and Ethnicity: Framing Racial Discrimination in Singapore (published paper) [Thanks James]

Religion
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Scholarly Discussions on Religious Issues Pertinent

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Political climate change and rising tides, part 1
- TOC: Deconstructing Meritocracy
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Thaipusam 2011 and CNY 2011: noise curbs are absurd
- Sam’s thoughts: Are Singaporean buses blind-friendly enough?
- Ravi Philemon: Tony Tan – A servant-leader
- The Mind Game: Social business: the confluence of idealism and pragmatism?
- New Asia Republic: 1988 Live TV Debate on Elected Presidency
- Support Site for The Unemployed: My Homecoming

Life, the universe and everything
- TOC: ST Mobile Aerospace featured in investigative documentary
- erwinchan: Science: Singapore vs The World

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 12-19 Feb

Selected News Stories
- openDemocracy: Regulating sexual citizenship in Singapore
- Change.org: India Down, Singapore Next?
- The Star: Still behind, four decades on [Thanks G]
- The Malaysian Insider: Valentine’s Day is not Christian, says church group [Thanks Willy]
- NYT: The Dirty Little Secrets of Search [Thanks A]

February 14th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- The Reform Party: Reform Party Announces New Member
- The Temasek Review: Can PAP Malay MPs please explain what progress they have made in Malay youths’ education?
- Blogging for Myself: MP’s visit: No Thanks

Housing Singaporeans
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Property Bubble & Investment Trap Part XV – A New Spring with More Interest Rate Hikes?
- TOC: Why are less applying for BTO?

It’s the economy, stupid
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Reconciling Ground Viewpoints with MOM Statistics

Re education
- New Nation: Beware the Octopus
- The Campust Observer: Important to educate student community in NUS about Islam, says Muslim Society President [Thanks Joel]

Singaporeans, a dying breed
- SpotlightOnSingapore: AWARE: mandatory paternity leave for dads
- Figuring how faith fits into this world, & other stuff: Will Paternity Leave really work?

Your National Service
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Skirmish Wat
- The Malaysian Insider: Dr M: ‘No chance’ of invading Singapore

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Free market and choice

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Temasek Review: Focus on worst cases of hospital bills, not your $8 bill

We are against capital punishment
- Maruah: Yong Vui Kong: MARUAH sends appeal to the President

Religion
- Irreligious: What we all have in common with Islamic extremists

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Notes: Scrapping The Bottom Of The Barrel

Life, the universe and everything
- funny little world: The Children of Bangladesh

Selected News Stories
- Asia Sentinel: Singapore and Foreign Workers
- PBS: Singapore Bursts With Energy, But Change Can Be Disturbing
- Free Malaysia Today: Dr M slams iron-fist ‘Dirty’ Harry
- Astbury Marsden: Customer satisfaction ”declines” in Singapore
- Malaysia News: Malaysia set to have minimum wage scheme
- WSJ: The Price of Malaysia’s Racism
- SMH: War looms as Sony hints that it will abandon iTunes
- Apple Insider: Apple may be prepping iPad 3 for fall 2011 launch – rumor
- HOME: a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

February 11th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Countdown to Elections
- Ravi Philemon: Gerald Giam my friend
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Expected List of New PAP Candidates for coming elections…
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP’s donation drive for Dr Chee is a mini victory
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Why I paid good money to help keep my political rival out of jail.
- Singapore Notes: Brown-nosing All The Way To Parliament
- The People’s Friend: The Case for Nationalism in Singapore (Part 2 – Citizenship)

CPF
- TOC: Contribute more to borrow from own CPF?
- Kaffein-nated: Brilliant con artists or intelligent morons

The Gospel of Harry
- Icarus Flew Too High: Cameron’s Rich Multiculturalism Folly

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Singapore Notes: The Student, The Cop, The Property Agent And The Judicial System

Housing Singaporeans
- En Bloc Block Blog: After Wikipeeks, now Weakipeeks

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Casinos: Junket operators have to be whiter than white

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Who wants a revolution?
- New Asia Republic: A mathematical reason why chinese kids should speak mandarin at home
- Barnyard Chorus: Teh menz, they sure knowz betta!
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Chingay 2011: why pay to watch?

Life, the universe and everything
- New Asia Republic Facebook: 2011 Tension over Border of Cambodia and Thailand [Thanks D]

Infoblogoramus
- Jacob 69er: Media Release: Launch of “Politics and Ethnicity: Framing Racial Discrimination in Singapore” [Thanks Jacob]

Selected News Stories
- Dredging Today: Singapore Expands its Coastline with Illegally Dredged Sand from Neighboring States?
- Global Voices: China: The coming of age of Political Confucianism?
- Indian Express: The multi-individual society
- Guardian: WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices
- NYT: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within
- Business Insider: Social Media Week In Hong Kong Highlights Asia’s Differences
- Engadget: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest ‘burning platform’ memo? (update: it’s real!)
- TechCrunch: Exclusive Video Of INQ’s Facebook Phone

February 10th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Watch Part V – In Search of the Young Voters
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Reaching Everyone For Active Citizenry @ Home (REACH): Too Much Talk, Too Little Action?
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Teo Ser Luck: Singapore is a springboard to achieve something bigger internationally

The Gospel of Harry
- Anak si Hamid: HMV (His Mentor’s Voice)
- own your reality without apology: M0014N Email Assignment
- The Temasek Review: Dumping the fallacies LKY created
- Hantulaut: Lee Kuan Yew’s Chinese Excellence And Malay Paradox
- The Malaysian Insider: Dr M: Kuan Yew just a ‘mayor’

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Media Law and Free of Expression Blog: “Asian Values”: a credible alternative to a universal conception of human rights
- International Bar Association: IBAHRI expresses concern about human rights and the independence of the judiciary in Singapore
- HRW: Singapore: Drop Charges Against Opposition Leader

Housing Singaporeans
- New Nation: The middle class nightmare

Re education
- Singapore Notes: Campus Priorities

We are against capital punishment
- The Owl Critics: And in the darkness hang them [Thanks lkajs]

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Pragmatitis
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Scoundrels at Preah Vihear
- My Little Corner: Are our public holildays fair to all?

Life, the universe and everything
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Desalination plant at Tuas may have “a slight negative impact” on marine life

Selected News Stories
- NYT Dealtime: Huffington Deal Raises Question: What Site Will Be Sold Next?
- Thought Catalog: Five Emotions Invented By The Internet
- Notion Ink Fan: Notion Ink Adam Review
- AndroidGuys: New Pics of Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

February 9th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Countdown to Elections
- Very Fine Commentary: NCMPs: Sequins on the PAP’s quilt

Housing Singaporeans
- Very Fine Commentary: Housing Singapore
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Property Buyers Strike Back

The Gospel of Harry
- New Nation: No one can have the last word, not even Lee Kuan Yew

Leaving No Ones Behind
- Very Fine Commentary: The slow trickle

Re education
- Sgpolitics.net: Sexuality education must remain secular
- flaneurose: Being a lower income student in an “elite” institution

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Singabloodypore: Human Rights Watch – World Report 2011: Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Lipstick on a Pig 4

Daily Discourse
- Very Fine Commentary: The Gay Christian: Homosexuality in an Age of Religious Hate
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Values for power
- I’m getting personal: US interests and the PAP
- Singapore Notes: Lessons From Cairo
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Change in Egypt will take time: George Yeo
- New Asia Republic: Would the Tunku support the New Economic Model?
- EcoWalktheTalk: Pen Hadow: Melting Arctic Sea Ice and How It Will Affect Asia [Thanks Bhavani]

Life, the universe and everything
- The Perspectivist: What is Singlish arh?
- The Basement Geographer: Reclaimed Land in Singapore: Nation-Building in the Most Literal Sense
- Loh and Behold: It Robbed His Entire Life [Thanks Annabel]

Infoblogoramus
- TOC: Charity begins at H.O.M.E
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 5-12 Feb

Selected News Stories
- Forbes: Singapore, Strategy, and the Power of a Leader
- The Star: Hidden human cargo from S’pore
- Malaysia Insider: Dr M pushes Johor Umno to revive crooked bridge
- Malaysiakini: Malaysia is Singapore’s talent pipeline
- Newsweek: Forget Chewing Gum, Try the Murtabak
- Telegraph: Singapore’s hawker centres: masters of the stir-fry
- Discovery News: Jerusalem UFO ‘Almost Certainly a Hoax’
- BBC: AOL to buy Huffington Post in $315m media merger
- The Economist: Why AOL wants the Huffington Post [Thanks A]
- Anandtech: Google’s Android Event Analysis
- TechCrunch: First Impressions Using Android Honeycomb, Google’s iPad Rival
- Search Engine Land: Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results [Analysis of the sting set up by Google]

February 8th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Countdown to Elections
- Insane Polygons: Hope For Singapore
- The People’s Friend: The case for National Socialism in Singapore (Part 1)
- Jacob 69er: We can no longer afford PAP policies that only highlight our differences instead of our commonality
- TOC: The third Chee Soon Juan
- Ravi Philemon: I don’t want Dr Chee to go to prison because..

Budget 2011
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: What’s up Doc?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Budget Goodies?

Housing Singaporeans
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: A Bulge in the Pipeline or How to Create A Housing Bubble
- The Temasek Review: The Politics of Property Price Rise 1990-2006
- The Pattern Trader: Property Market – An Update On My View
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Property prices will hop-a-long

The Gospel of Harry
- The Temasek Review: Government and MUIS sued over MM Lee’s new book
- Singapore Life and Times: We have grown
- SpotlightOnSingapore: What core values is PM Lee talking about?
- SuriaMohd.com: Strict or Less Strict? …My Thoughts on being a Muslim & the only Islam I know
- The Owl Critics: The Too Strict Mr.Lee [Thanks ikajs]

Leaving No Ones Behind
- TOC: Income Inequality & How to Not Fix It
- TOC: Minimum Wage Isn’t the Best Solution
- TOC: Helping Malay-Muslim families

Singapore Coloring
- Singapore 2025: Singapore Government Scholarships: A case for greater representation of Minority Races?
- Furry Brown Dog: Rethinking civil service scholarships and the entrepreneurial spirit

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: High Cost of Medical Care in Singapore…
- TOC: Health Minister “不三不四”? (Neither here nor there)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Local jobs up 12,400, foreign jobs up 62,500?
- The Temasek Review: Towards a workforce of foreigners

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Are There Deficiencies In Singapore’s Sex Education Programme?
- LifeSiteNews: Singapore archbishop issues message to Catholic schools on sex-ed programs

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Muruah Singapore: MARUAH’s View of the Police Investigations into SFD Members’ Sale of Death Penalty Book

To Fix a Kingmaker
- Siew Kum Hong: For the last time, TOC is not a political party!

Your National Service
- Singapore Alternatives: Reservist as an Officer

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: What we can do for autistic Singaporeans
- TOC: How long must caregivers suffer before the Government acts?
- Mathia Lee: Discriminatory Insurance T&Cs

Life, the universe and everything
- New Asia Republic: Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Human Spectacle of Spectacular Speculation
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Are all financial advisers bad?

Selected News Stories
- Global Finance: Singapore: The Cost Of Record Growth
- The Bangkok Post: Temasek’s investment in Thailand shaken
- IPS: New Hope for Sentenced Malaysian
- IDEAS: The Effect Of House Price On Fertility: Evidence From Hong Kong
- Free Malaysiakini: Identical peas from divergent pods.
- Bloomberg: Rising Singapore Wealth Means Family Dinner Becomes Bali Break
- Crikey: The carefully avoided issues in a tiny Jetstar Asia profit
- NYT: Detentions, and Aide’s Role, Anger Egyptians [Thanks G]
- BBC: Egypt violence exposes secret tools of state repression [Thanks G]
- PBS: Social Media Alone Do Not Instigate Revolutions

February 7th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Life and Times: Whose Singapore?
- Molitics: Demolition Man VS DeMolitician Girl
- Musings From the Lion City: Wrong Line of Defense
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: “Truth”: What is it?
- Monsters and Critics: Singapore leaders calm waves after Lee annoys Muslims
- FTP: Silver lining behind MM Lee’s controversial comments

Countdown to Elections
- Memories Archipelago: Is the newspaper that I am reading skewed in a certain way??

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: MOM report- Estimated 500,000 earn less than $1,200 or are unemployed

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Deliberate Workplace Internationalization in Singapore
- Tribolum.com: Lines

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Strengthening Singapore’s Education Of Educators
- Singapore Notes: The Perils Of Childhood

To Fix a Kingmaker
- New Asia Republic: The day the Internet died
- SCMP: Political blog turns the tables on ruling party

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Legal system in Singapore

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Temasek Review: Singapore needs health reforms not maybes from Minister Khaw Boon Wan

Your National Service
- Senang Diri: Singapore Armed Forces Training Safety Audit 2001 to 2010: A look at training halts
- The Daily Pennsylvanian: The call to serve

Daily Discourse
- Babolat: Where is home now for me?
- thinkcink.net: I am Singaporean too
- department of crappy engineering: academic performance-based or work performance-based
- The Kent Ridge Common: NUSSU – What are you trying to do with the students’ monies in the reserves?

Selected News Stories
- The Malaysian Insider: Malaysia did not sabotage Singapore, says Dr M
- NYT: The Quest for Dignity [Thanks G]
- TechCrunch: Exclusive: An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times’ Answer To The Daily
- CrunchGear: First Drive: 2012 Ford Focus, A European Car Meant For The World
- Tom’s Hardware: The Hidden Cost Of Intel’s $700 Million SB Recall
- Mail Online: Lightning and fire: Japan on alert after volcano’s biggest eruption in 50 years
- Telegraph: Nicholas Serota: Googling the future of art
- Art Project (Powered by Google): Visitor Guide
- INQUIRER.net: Rabbits and hares

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!
新年快乐,身体健康,万事如意!
We’ll be back on Monday. Peace out, everyone. Especially you, Harry..

February 2nd, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment