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Archive for March, 2011

Daily SG: 31 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: Let the people decide: Mrs Lina Chiam
- TOC: I’ve never left Singapore – SDP’s Dr Vincent Wijeysingha
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party’s Membership Recruitment Drive

New Mandarins on the Block
- journalism.sg: Tin Pei Ling’s Baptism Of Fire: Should Bloggers Have Lit The Match?
- TOC: Will Tin Pei Ling backfire?
- Sgpolitics.net: Field Tin Pei Ling in an SMC and let voters decide
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Hopefully the Mob Tripped itself when it Kicked Out
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: An immature knee jerk to questionable progress
- Vinyarb: This Tin called Pei Ling
- Singapore Notes: For Want of A Better Name, StanChartGate?
- Flying Low: Seriously, what is this?
- Singapore Short Stories: Tin Pei Ling and my wish list for Tin Pei Ling if she is elected as youngest member of Singapore Parliament in Singapore General Election 2011
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Ng Eng Hen : PAP not looking for yes-men…(or yes-women)
- onesingaporean: Maid carry NSman’s backpack, Chok Tong carry general
- The Temasek Review: Extreme moderation at Hardwarezone
- Talk Rock: Tin Pei Ling, sexy PAP XMM!
- Yahoo: Is Tin Pei Ling a victim of ‘gutter journalism’?

Bloggers say
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: As the parliamentary elections approach, should I or shouldn’t I?
- TOC: GRC system: Wool over eyes (Part 6 of 6)
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: On Mediacorp’s heartland voter survey, part 2
- New Asia Republic: Why aged issues take increasing national priority
- under a Pipala Tree: GE11

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Laïcité: Confessions of a foreigner
- ST Forum: Day off isn’t a maid’s perk but a right

Your National Service
- Senang Diri: Maid the news: The online media storm from the infamous image of the S’pore Army boy tailed by a woman carrying a fullpack
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Maid carrying his backpack: NSman under fire, Part 2

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Reflecting on “Reflections” – A review of Mah Bow Tan’s book (Part 6 of 9)

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Desparatebeep: What Work Did You Do to Justify Your Charges?
- Singapore M.D.: The Saga Continues

Re education
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Generation Z will revolutionize education

Daily Discourse
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The disconnect that matters
- Temasek Hedge: S-chips according to SGX: “Nothing To See Here.”

Selected News Stories
- The China Post: ASEAN rethinking nuclear energy use
- abovethecrowd.com: The Freight Train That Is Android
- Engadget: Samsung Series 9 (NP900X3A) laptop review
- Tech65.org: Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo First Look

Daily SG: 30 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Yaw Shin Leong: WP Electoral Bid For Alternative Government?
- Gerald Giam: Appearance on Channel NewsAsia forum
- SDP: “Can’t we find locals for elections?”
- The Temasek Review: Understanding the Workers’ Party
- The Temasek Review: Kenneth Jeyaretnam: Reform Party has enough candidates

New Mandarins on the Block
- Siew Kum Hong: This is not what I want Singapore politics to be like
- motochan: The Tin Pei Ling Incident is a Storm in a Teacup
- Sgpolitics.net: Online smearing of PAP candidate Tin Pei Ling is hypocritical and cowardly
- onesingaporean: Tin Pei Ling vs Chen Show Mao – and a very scary thought
- onesingaporean: A handbag and a pack of wolves
- For Want of a Better Title: Isn’t this a bit too far?
- funny little world: What does Kate Spade have to do with it?
- My Singapore News: Tin Pei Ling, the future of PAP
- Tribolum.com: Eye on the ball
- The Temasek Review: Is Tin Pei Ling the right candidate for MacPherson?
- Icarus Flew Too High: Just Another Brick In The Wall
- Barnyard Chorus: “A woman schlemiel”.
- Weekday Blues: Breaking News: Women are not people.
- ALVINOLOGY: Tin Peiling and Sarah Palin
- I.Z. Reloaded: Straits Times puts photo of Tin Pei Ling’s hair on its front page
- De Leviathan @ SG: Sugar Coating of New PAP Candidates Part 2 – What questions would you like to ask them most?
- Today: Mixed views on youngest PAP candidate in three decades

Bloggers say
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: On Mediacorp’s heartland voter survey, part 1
- Empty Vessel: Get some perspective, people
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Quality, not Quantity
- this is premium writing, no?: emotions, unlike politics, is not a bad word
- The Temasek Review: Only 43% at Queenstown will vote for PAP
- New Nation: Quit playing games for my vote
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: A Blog that Speaks for me (from the Bottom of a True Singaporean’s Heart)
- Salt Wet Fish: The (Watch)men In White
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: Thinking About Group Representation Constituencies
- flaneurose: When the PAP loses an election, it will be time to leave.
- mrbrown: Lim Boon Heng: MP’s job can be thankless
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: Can Singapore become a country of High Ideals?
- My Queenstown: MyQueenstown Votes #1 – Who will win the Election? [Thanks YZ]

Leave No Ones Behind
- Ian On The Red Dot: Widening Income Gap Is NOT JUST The Responsibility Of The Singapore Government

Your National Service
- Senang Diri: Singapore’s defence burden – Something no maid can carry
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Maid carrying his backpack: NSman under fire!
- mrbrown: Maid for the Army 2

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: “Why would he go to his death so willingly?” – Father of man on death row
- The Death Penalty in Singapore: Iqah’s story – The single mum who became an unwitting drug mule
- The Death Penalty in Singapore: Vui Kong’s verdict scheduled
- We Believe In Second Chances: How many need to die?

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Notes: Daddy Big Bucks

Life, the universe and everything
- Din Merica: Singapore in the Malay World

Infoblogoramus
- FB Event: Financial Counselling by Leong Sze Hian

Selected News Stories
- Today: Beware contracting out our young graduates’ future
- Yahoo: Top surgeon ‘threatened’ MFA: counsel
- New Scientist: Nuclear power to go underground?
- BBC: How do you spot a future world leader?

Daily SG: 29 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: Jaslyn Go: Social activist, election candidate
- New Asia Republic: Wanbao interviews Candidate: Hazel Poa (NSP)
- The Temasek Review: Low Thia Kiang: Its MP or nothing
- TOC: Bears, bikes and baby-cuddlers – snapshots of opposition walkabout
- FTP: Parties reveal more plans for General Election

New Mandarins on the Block
- Singapore Short Stories: Singapore General Election 2011: PAP introduces 3rd batch of candidates
- De Leviathan @ SG: Yes to Evolution, No to Revolution?
- The Owl: False Uniforms, And ‘Fresh’ Faces In Singapore [Thanks lkajs]
- Singapore Notes: The Peril Of Youth

Bloggers say
- visaisahero: Why Singaporeans Don’t Feel That They Belong
- A Pill for Life: From the eyes of a TOC volunteer newbie
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Vote for PAP and Your Future is just like Your Past..
- eastcoastlife: EastCoastLife on a House-to-House Visit – GE 2011 新加坡大选
- Political Writings: Fix Me Up, PM! [Thanks Lee]
- mrbrown: More “Keep Calm”
- TOC: PAP MPs doing walkabout wearing PA shirts?
- Today Voices: What about not raising rents
- FTP: Rising cost of living the hottest issue for voters
- CNA: What are the hot-button issues?

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Reflecting on “Reflections” – A review of Mah Bow Tan’s book (Part 5 of 9)

We are against capital punishment
- pressrun.net: Amnesty in the dark on Singapore executions

Daily Discourse
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Singaporeans Believing Anything (we want to believe in only)
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Distraction from Chan Shun Sing to New Army Chief
- Insane Polygons: The Modern NS Experience.
- Mr Wang Says So: What is The Value of Paper Qualifications?
- The Temasek Review: Singapore’s prominence as money laundering hub grows
- TOC: Women’s Charter: 50 years on.
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: How can independent director of troubled S-Chip resign?

Life, the universe and everything
- Loh and Behold: Past his Sell-by Date – A Known Known
- The Long and Winding Road: Sembawang beyond the slumber
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Dredging right next to Cyrene Reef until Jun 2011
- The Longest Way Home: Is Singapore the Utopian solution?

Selected News Stories
- Guardian: How live blogging has transformed journalism
- SlashGear: Samsung: Glasses-free 3D TV “within the next 10 years will be difficult”
- Tech65.org: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play First Look

Daily SG: 28 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: “There will be more significant things to come”: WP’s Low
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: NSP: An irresponsible party?
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: An Imaginary Climate of Fear?
- The Temasek Review: Exclusive from NSP & SDP: No Suicide squad
- The Temasek Review: SDA prepared for a three-cornered showdown in Punggol East SMC
- New Asia Republic: Wife Luo Wenli responsible for Mr Chiam’s 3-in-1 Concept
- New Asia Republic: Mrs Chiam: I am inspired by Sonia Gandhi
- CNA: Electoral competition heats up as parties eye SMCs
- CNA: NSP names Tampines GRC candidates

New Mandarins on the Block
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The PAP Civil Service
- New Nation: Parachute politics in Singapore
- SpotlightOnSingapore: PAP new faces: Yes, yes, yes Minister?

The President & His Ministars: Get Rich or Die Tryin
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Singapore General Elections 2011: High Ministerial Salaries. Is PAP’s Failure to Respond a Miscalculation?
- ST Forum: Why President’s pay seems jarring now and not before

Bloggers say
- TOC: MM Lee’s views a “generational thing”: Michael Palmer
- pressrun.net: Singapore’s veteran MPs
- ERPZ: Singapore’s Governance
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: Are Ten (Minus One) Days Sufficient For Campaigning?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: The party of the few
- Icarus Flew Too High: Hapless CNA and Luxury Chairs – A sorry state of affairs.
- Sgpolitics.net: PM Lee, I will definitely vote calmly
- Singapore Notes: Our Future At Stake
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Massive PAP Progaganda by State Controlled Straits Times, again..
- TOC: Some videos of the GE 2011 Forum at NUS (updated with Dr Chee’s rebuttal to Michael Palmer)
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Suicide squads needed
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Graduate Employment Survey 2010 (published 2011)
- The Star: Battle of the elite looming
- Reuters: Singapore’s high home prices pose risks ahead of elections

Leave No Ones Behind
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Targeted help – PAP’s euphemism for barriers to those getting help…
- funny little world: WAH! If I worked at MOM, my backside will be so happy.
- Singapore Notes: Another Bum Deal

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Reflecting on “Reflections” – A review of Mah Bow Tan’s book (Part 4 of 9)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Mandatory citizenship programme needs more stakeholder involvement.

Singapore is a free country. Free from chewing gum, free from Playboy, free from transparency, free from a free press, free from free speec…
- visaisahero: ST’s justification of its liberal editing of Forum opinions
- visaisahero: Samuel Wee’s response to ST’s explanation
- TOC: ST Forum Editor was right after all
- Laïcité – Secularity and Secularism: This is what freedom of speech looks like
- Fridae: Simon Fujiwara: Censored at the Singapore Biennale 2011

We are against capital punishment
- The Temasek Review: Where is TOC when a Singaporean needs them?
- Rachel Zeng: Save Atiqah: Flea Market 27th March

Japan Tsunami
- Cooler Insights: 6 Lessons in Japanese Resilience
- Desparatebeep: Is It The End of the World? I don’t feel fine..

Earth Hour 2011
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Earth Hour in Singapore
- Vicky’s Writings: Observing Earth’s Hour

Daily Discourse
- New Nation: Explaining inflation in Singapore
- Military Life: Can I carry your full-pack, Sir?
- New Asia Republic: Between tolerating the future dictator and perpetuating democracy
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Orchard Road’s a mess again
- TOC: Women’s Charter “not just for the elites”
- The Lycan Times: Elitism rears its ugly head
- Nomadism: Local Sg News: A ridiculous call to “warn off” heartlanders to Holland Village.

Life, the universe and everything
- Senang Diri: Singapore Army’s leadership renewal
- department of crappy engineering: old airport’s road

Daily SG: 25 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: Can the opposition win a GRC in GE2011?
- TOC: That makeshift cubicle at the void deck
- Icarus Flew Too High: No to “scorched earth”, please. Empower us instead.
- Food Fuels me to talk: Never say never!
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Dr Chee Soon Juan on what it means to be Singaporean
- TOC: Channel Newsasia bars Dr Chee – again
- The Temasek Review: A first time voter’s message to NSP
- New Asia Republic: SFP: What’s at Stake for Singapore (23-03-2011)

New Mandarins on the Block
- TOC: Foo Mee Har’s strength highlights PAP’s weakness
- Singapore M.D.: Doctors and Politics (Local)
- De Leviathan @ SG: Sugar Coating of New PAP Candidates Part I – What questions would you like to ask them most?
- Singapore Notes: The Days Of The Mandarins Are Numbered
- My Singapore News: Big changes in PAP policies
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Not Another New Citizen Please!!!

Bloggers say
- TOC: GRC system: Wool Over Eyes (Part 5 of 6)
- Singapore Notes: Old Soldiers Never Die
- Food Fuels me to talk: Mr Wong Kan Seng, please don’t…
- Political Writings: What Level Playing Field? [Thanks Lee]
- Asia Times: Media as politics in Singapore
- Yahoo: Are S’poreans afraid to talk politics?

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Reflecting on “Reflections” – A review of Mah Bow Tan’s book (Part 3 of 9)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: A reminder of the value of my passport in Singapore sports

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Ray of Light: Talented psychiatric patients : Set up museum space for their work

Japan Tsunami
- Laïcité – Secularity and Secularism: Secular compassion in a time of tragedy

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Singapore doesn’t practise Confucianism
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Increasing Depth And Breadth Of Government Polls And Reviews
- TOC: Straits Times! Why you edit until like that?
- In the Beginning was the Logos: Straits Times, I salute you
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: US crossing the watershed on gay marriage
- New Asia Republic: The Incredible Bread Machine

Life, the universe and everything
- The Writing Experiment: MusicCamp and FilmCamp Singapore [Thanks Vanessa]
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: 1 in 3 Singaporeans would rather lose their childhood photos than their phone
- New Asia Republic: The Democratization of Entrepreneurship

Infoblogoramus
- Event @ The Art House: Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore [Thanks Gwee]

Selected News Stories
- MSN: Only 30% of companies’ Internet traffic linked to work activities

Daily SG: 24 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: Stepping forward – Part 1
- Musings From the Lion City: Nothing Is Free
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: How to resolve NSP’s row with WP
- Rachel Zeng: Let the carrot sweeten the hearts and minds?
- SDP: SDP to CNA: Let Chee Soon Juan debate PAP rep
- CNA: SDA unveils its first batch of election candidates
- Today: SDA ‘will not back out of wards’

New Mandarins on the Block
- Singapore Notes: Who Is Dominic Puthucheary?
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: I will vote for you reason #3 – IF you gimme back my Merlion

Bloggers say
- TOC: Foo Mee Har’s strength highlights PAP’s weakness
- New Nation: Don’t be hoodwinked: Social media will have limited impact on GE
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Flashes of promise amid flashbacks
- SpotlightOnSingapore: DPM Wong fires salvo at opposition: PAP jittery over GRC?
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Polling Day: April 30?
- The Temasek Review: Amended Parliamentary Elections Act in a nutshell

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Reflecting on “Reflections” – A review of Mah Bow Tan’s book (Part 2 of 9)
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: HDB, Homeownership and Singapore as Home

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Desparatebeep: Is there such a thing as a Noble Profession?

Japan Tsunami
- Nomadism: Afterthought after Japanese Tsunami and Earthquake

Daily Discourse
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: I film videos and I screen them privately. =O

Infoblogoramus
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: All Woks of Life (Exhibition)

Selected News Stories
- ZDNet: S’pore mulls copyright governing broadcast content
- BBC: Social media capitalise on Russia’s history of censorship [Thanks A]
- Business Insider: Best Tablets for Business [Thanks G]


Dame Elizabeth Rosemond “Liz” Taylor
27 Feb 1932 – 23 Mar 2011

Goodbye, blue sky…

Daily SG: 23 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: 3- cornered fight is a scorched earth policy that will backfire
- Sgpolitics.net: A 3 cornered fight would hurt WP more than NSP
- I’m getting personal: Preparations at SDP intense
- Furry Brown Dog: 3-cornered electoral fights and Arrow’s impossibility theorem
- The Lycan Times: Current Affairs – Opposition Disunity
- The Temasek Review: SDA to unveil all potential candidates for upcoming GE

New Mandarins on the Block
- TOC: New candidates, but no principles?
- New Nation: Piping hot candidates roll off the PAP assembly line
- For Want of a Better Title: How the Hell do we know?
- Military Life: New Male Citizens Can Aspire to Political Office Without NS [Thanks panzergrenadier]
- My Singapore News: A rousing reception for Janil Puthucheary
- onesingaporean: Nah, I will not vote for a person who doesn’t care about his father’s sufferings
- onesingaporean: Janil Puthucheary, please volunteer for National Service
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Dr Janil Puthucheary from PAP
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: I will vote for you reason #2 – IF you ask SPH to stop playing cheat
- onesingaporean: Now, this is bad, really bad
- Singapore Short Stories: Singapore’s Fourth Prime Minister

Bloggers say
- TOC: Ministerial Pay – The Frankenstein’s monster that won’t go away
- The Temasek Review: 9 Reasons why you should not vote for PAP in the upcoming GE
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore human rights: disgraceful Part 2
- Kaffein-nated: About time for a change
- Political Writings: How to solve Singapore’s problems [Thanks L]

Japan Tsunami
- Sgpolitics.net: Don’t Look Left or Right
- department of crappy engineering: unclear about nuclear
- under a Pipala Tree: Don’t mind me for saying this..

Leave No Ones Behind
- New Asia Republic: Supporting our caregivers and senior citizens
- TOC: Security guards’ stats – something for Desmond Choo to ponder over

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: Reflecting on “Reflections” – A review of Mah Bow Tan’s book (Part 1 of 9)

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Survival Of The Fittest – Is This What We Want?

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Seven misrules of law

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: What Happened to our Millions doses of Flu Vaccines?
- Yours Toothfully: The Sympathiser’s Assumptions

We are against capital punishment
- Rachel Zeng: Statement by SADPC on Shah Alam High Court’s decision to sentence Singaporean to death

Daily Discourse
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Temasek Review?
- visaisahero: Want your opinions distorted and misrepresented? Write in to The Straits Times!
- guanyinmiao’s musings: More Must Be Done For Singapore’s At-Risk Youth
- Singapore Notes: Confessions Of A Cab Driver
- ALVINOLOGY: 小心”黑车”!Beware of the “Black Cab”!
- Singapore Sojourn: Sweep Me Away
- mrbrown: Seth Rogen talks to Conan O’brien about Singapore

Selected News Stories
- Forbes: In Singapore, Love Means Carrying My Prada Bag For Me
- Reuters: SGX-ASX deal likely to face Australia parliamentary inquiry
- Reuters: HK bankers got biggest bonus rise last year, beating Singapore

Daily SG: 22 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Why Singaporeans Should See through the Upgrading Carrot
- Rachel Zeng: Time for Change
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party unveils candidates for Pioneer and Radin Mas SMC
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Opposition – the 3 corner trap…
- Politics in Singapore: The gravity strategy of WP [Thanks A]
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Mr Low Thia Khiang, please don’t…
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: NSP: Playing hardball
- Political Writings: Singapore’s “Fukushima 40″ GE 2011 [Thanks L]

Bloggers say
- Politics in Singapore: A Brief History of Elections I
- Politics in Singapore: A Brief History of Elections II: 3-way fights
- The Rot Within: Complacency
- De Leviathan @ SG: PM Lee : The true test of the social fabric will be a crisis..
- Singapore Notes: Look Out For Flying Crap
- The Temasek Review: PAP is not worth the money
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: ‘Anti-PAP government’, not ‘anti-government’

Japan Tsunami
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: SM Goh Chok Tong compared Japan Tsunami with Singapore Floods
- SG. Quitters: Pirate of Temasek – SM Goh comparing Singaporeans with Japanese

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Hard truths on hard culture
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: 1994 – 2011: A Chronology of Authoritarian Rule in Singapore
- ST Forum: Develop old railway track into high-speed train link

Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: A lesser known Hindu festival with a Kavadi procession: Panguni Uthiram

Selected News Stories
- The Australian: SGX deal needs major surgery to avoid certain political death

Daily SG: 21 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: Where will Chiam contest?
- TOC: Desmond Lim – all geared up for the GE
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: The Real Reasons Why Wages are Failing to Keep Up with Inflation
- The Reform Party: Perspectives of a Student
- Yaw Shin Leong: Conversations With Ex-Unionists
- SDP: Stop the PAP before it’s too late
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Low Thia Khiang’s job is to lead the Workers’ Party
- TOC: Mountbatten close to her heart
- New Asia Republic: Will the Reform Party contest?
- New Asia Republic: WP visits Sengkang-West and Punggol-East SMCs [Thanks D]

Bloggers say
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: Social Media Not A Bed Of Roses
- Siew Kum Hong: Answering the question you wish had been asked
- TOC: GRC system: Wool Over Eyes (Part 4 of 6)
- TOC: New faces – PAP vs Opposition
- nofearSingapore: GE 2011: I am a swing voter- try to convince me!
- Singapore Notes: We Don’t Know Why He Did That Either
- Political Writings: Myths & Half-Truths from the “Opposition” (Part II) [Thanks Lee]
- LoveLivfe: I am not here to play someone else’s game
- The Temasek Review: Homing in on what matters most to S’poreans [Thanks G]
- mrbrown: PAP = “New Faces”, Opposition = “Newbies”
- The Owl: The PAP Blinks [Thanks lkajs]
- TOC: Smile PAP, the Straits Times is here!
- My sketchbook: Justification for president’s pay hike

Japan Tsunami
- New Nation: NTU student recounts experience during Japan earthquake
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Fukushima 50 : Lessons in worker loyalty..
- ST Forum: Fukushima 50 – lessons in worker loyalty [Thanks G]
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Japan tsunami donations: Singapore government gives ONLY $500,000, shame.
- New Asia Republic: Goodbye Uranium, Hello Thorium

Housing Singaporeans
- Yours Truly Singapore: A struggle to find the ‘sweet spot’, says Mah [Thanks G]

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- My Singapore News: Say No to destructive growth formula

CPF
- Furry Brown Dog: A comparative analysis of real CPF returns and other provident funds

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- New Asia Republic: On Trial by Jury & Jury Nullification

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: How ‘Informed’ Is An Informed Consent?
- Today Voices: The power of disclosure [Thanks G]

S377a
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: High Court waves away 377A controversy

Daily Discourse
- TOC: NTUC- a union to help community or workers?
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Social integration, Singapore’s sharia law and Minister Mentor Lee – II
- The Singapore Law Review: Politicizing Blogs
- Ray of Light: Would prizes encourage more gracious behaviour?

Life, the universe and everything
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: S’pore Inc: SGX misread Oz

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

Selected News Stories
- Today: Investors appeal against ruling on Lehman-linked losses [Thanks G]
- The Star: Insomnia for state investors
- The Interpreter: Singapore is not a model for Australia
- The Economist: Go East, young bureaucrat
- NYT: Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Faces Protest [Thanks Kay]

Daily SG: 18 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: Which opposition party will come up tops this election?
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog or How the RP Has Already Changed Government Policy
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Chee Soon Juan outlines SDP’s election campaign message
- CNA: Opposition “need to seek breakthrough in GRC” in coming GE

Bloggers say
- Ravi Philemon: Not only the PAP’s voice
- Senang Diri: Nuclear energy for Singapore? A second look at Singapore’s information management and PR strategy for nuclear energy
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: How many houses David Marshall could buy on his salary?
- onesingaporean: Singapore Parliament – in desperate need of alternative voices
- Political Writings: Myths & Half-Truths from the “Opposition” (Part I) [Thanks Lee]

Japan Tsunami
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: During Crisis who stays who leaves…
- Mr Wang Says So: Imitation Earthquake Victim
- Singapore Notes: Anatomy Of An Apology
- The Enquirer: Don’t give in to groundless fear
- New Asia Republic: The dirt on nuclear power
- Today Voices: S’poreans’ reactions to Japan disaster sadden me

Leave No Ones Behind
- Siew Kum Hong: MP Hri Kumar responds to me
- TOC: Josephine Teo’s selective use of ‘Germany example’

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- My Little Corner: There goes my $x bak chor mee

Your National Service
- TOC: ICT make-up pay: Part-time workers shortchanged?

Daily Discourse
- TOC: George Yeo’s remarks – a different perspective
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Social integration – Is It Happening Here?

Life, the universe and everything
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: The driver, the passengers, and me
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Earth Hour 2011 — March 26, 2030hrs – 2130hrs

Infoblogoramus
- MOE: NUS: Employment Rate and Gross Monthly Salary of Graduates By Bachelors Degree, 2010

Selected News Stories
- The Manila Bulletin: Philippine NGO opens branch in Singapore
- Steve Gong: Pyongyang Style – North Korean Haircut
- Jalopnik: The Sultan of Brunei’s rotting supercar collection
- io9: Why a nuclear reactor will never become a bomb
- Reuters: PepsiCo Unveils 100 Percent Bio-Based Plastic Bottle
- Science Daily: Large Hadron Collider Could Be World’s First Time Machine, Researchers’ Theory Suggests
- /Flim: Watch ‘TRON: The Next Day,’ a Ten-Minute Short Bridging ‘Tron’ and ‘Tron Legacy’
- The Art of the Title Sequence: A Brief History of Title Design

Daily SG: 17 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- SDP: Budget 2011: $800 for us, millions for themselves
- Alternative Voice for Singaporeans: Something that hurts..
- Young PAP: Young PAP Political Discussion: “Working To Win In Singapore’s Economy Ahead”

Bloggers say
- New Asia Republic: Are Singapore’s electoral practices legal?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: When you should vote PAP
- Icarus Flew Too High: Tweet carefully…
- just rambling: Urbanism and PAP’s election campaign
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: An unnoticed election rule change
- The Temasek Review: How will Singapore be today if David Marshall had been PM instead of Lee Kuan Yew
- New Nation: Message to Opposition: Don’t forget to whack the PAP [Thanks Bryan]

Japan Tsunami
- Ong Jiin Joo: Staying focused and happy at the same time
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Nuclear accidents: oppose Indonesia nuclear energy plans

Singapore Coloring
- Singapore Notes: Is There A Racist In The Room?

Re education
- The Temasek Review: Singapore Teachers Hate MOE`s EPMS

Daily Discourse
- AlterNet Views: A Singaporean Economic Refugee

Life, the universe and everything
- Barnyard Chorus: The obsesity and BMI divide.
- blankanvas: home pride dharni

Selected News Stories
- USA Today: Coveting Singapore’s public housing system
- The Jakarta Globe: Catastrophe Makes Clear Indonesia Isn’t Ready for Nuclear Power, Experts Warn
- Wired: Video: Hike the 2,200-Mile Appalachian Trail in 4 Minutes
- Katamari Hack: This is a “bookmarklet” that turns any page into Katamari Damacy.

Daily SG: 16 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: Keep electoral horse-trading a private affair
- Yaw Shin Leong: Heartland Conversations With Mr Mo
- New Asia Republic: PKMS celebrates Golden Jubilee (23/02/2011) [Thanks D]
- New Asia Republic: Singapore Democratic Alliance walks Punggol-East (13/03/2011) [Thanks D]
- SDP: Today again censors SDP’s news
- Today Voices: SDP has published programme of alternative policies

Bloggers say
- journalism.sg: Online campaigning: more freedom to shoot oneself in the foot
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Effect of election advertising amendments on non-party netizens
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Election rallies are so old-fashioned
- TOC: GRC system: Wool Over Eyes (Part 3 of 6)
- Political Writings: The #1 Political Problem in Singapore [Thanks Lee]
- Alternative Voice for Singaporeans: Some MindbloMindboggling Quotes from MPs
- FTP: Easing of rules on new media for coming GE

The Ghospel of Harry
- catherinelim.sg: Letter to ST: MM Lee’s ‘apology’ sends mixed, ambiguous signals

Japan Tsunami
- Singapore Notes: A History Of Heartlessness
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Watch Part IX – Will we stay a “kintaro-ame” nation, SM Goh?
- The Enquirer: Can “noisy” Singaporeans take a real tsunami?
- New Asia Republic: Nuclear power proponents make U-Turn
- New Asia Republic: Lee Hsien Loong on why Singapore is considering nuclear power
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Panic over impending Japanese nuclear meltdown…
- New Nation: Making disaster porn
- TOC: If you want to help the Japanese earthquake survivors..
- BBC: ‘Radiation’ text message is fake

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: All quiet on the labour front?
- My Singapore News: Relying on cheap labour unsustainable

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Furry Brown Dog: Are Temasek and GIC really better investors than Singaporeans?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Persistent Public Transport Congestion: Nagging Questions And Uncertainties

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Singapore: Modern Feudal Society?
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: The Great Multilingual Experiment

Life, the universe and everything
- Senang Diri: 25th anniversary of the Hotel New World disaster
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Framework for Responding to Negative Blog Postings and Online Forum Mentions
- Bernard Leong: Building a (Mobile-Web) Start-up: the 2011 way
- The Kent Ridge Common: Upfront with: Bernard Chen
- Wild Shores of Singapore: 2011 is Pacific Year of the Dugong

Selected News Stories
- RTTNews: Singapore Jobless Rate Rises To 2.2% In Q4
- RTTNews: Singapore Retail Sales Growth Slows More Than Forecast
- Property Report: Slowdown in Singapore private home sales
- ZDNet: S’pore sets new rules for data roaming, broadband speeds
- STRATFOR: Japan, the Persian Gulf and Energy
- AnandTech: The MacBook Pro Review (13 & 15-inch): 2011 Brings Sandy Bridge

Daily SG: 15 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- New Asia Republic: Clash of the Titans: NSP meets PAP (13/03/2011) [Thanks D]

Bloggers say
- Ravi Philemon: PAP candidate for Mountbatten thought Singaporeans were noise makers too
- The Kent Ridge Common: The Insidious Shifts in Perspective: Framing the Singapore Way
- CNA: Singapore eases rulings on Internet election advertising

Japan Tsunami
- Sgpolitics.net: Excuse me, SM Goh, Japan has a plural Parliament unlike Singapore
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP: Pls do not use tragedy to push yr agenda
- Vinyarb: SM Goh compares Tsunami to SG Flood
- My Singapore News: A Japanese lesson
- My Little Corner: Will Singaporeans be like the Japanese in times of trouble?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: After Egypt, now with tsunami news, CNA again a disgrace
- mrbrown: Japan got earthquake, quickly book your CNA commercial slots NOW!
- mrbrown: MediaCorp says sorry for CNA Japan earthquake email
- Musings From the Lion City: In Poor Taste
- Big Talk Singapore: Is Singapore still going for nuclear with Japan nuclear meltdown ?
- The Temasek Review: After Fukushima do we still want 6.5m people and a Nuclear Power to support?
- The Enquirer: Living with aftershocks [Thanks Jianyue]
- BraveNewClimate: Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a simple and accurate explanation
- Google Crisis Response: 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
- NOAA Center for Tsunami Research: Tsunami Event – March 11, 2011 Honshu (northeastern Taiheiyou)

Leave no ones behind
- New Asia Republic: Where and how can Singaporeans with low income seek help to get them by?

Housing Singaporeans
- Chemical Generatio Singapore: Appeasement in the HDB Resale Market

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: Work injuries expenses: 1-in-20 chances workers may have to pay?
- Singapore M.D.: Arrogance of ignorance 2

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Indictments from our prison system
- ST Forum: Why S’pore should back Timor Leste

Life, the universe and everything
- Desparatebeep: The Nice Guy Who Finishes First

Selected News Stories
- The Philippine Star: Pinoy professionals in Singapore outnumber maids – Aquino
- The Economist: Journalistic nuclear physics

Daily SG: 14 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: Low Thia Khiang: Opposition renewal an important issue for voters
- Singapore Alternatives: Singapore Cannot Lose 新加坡输不起

Bloggers Say
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: Emerging From Comfort Zones
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: President’s Scholars becoming MPs or Ministers
- Just My Observation: PM, PA, MND, MHA, SLA: fixing the opposition every step of the way?

Electoral Boundaries
- TOC: GRC system: Wool Over Eyes (Part 2 of 6)

The Gospel of Harry
- Where Bears Roam Free: Yaacob Ibrahim should move on

Leave No Ones Behind
- TOC: YPAP budget forum: Not much sense?
- Singapore Notes: Keep It Simple, Stupid
- Siew Kum Hong: Response to questions from Hri Kumar [Thanks Adrian & Willy]

Japan Tsunami
- Molitics: Noisy Singaporeans & Japanese Nation-Building Techniques
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SM Goh: Singaporeans are too dependent on govt…
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Comic Utterrance of a Senior Minister
- Icarus Flew Too High: The “Wisdoms” of Goh Chok Tong
- Everything Also Complain: Japanese on TV are very stoic looking
- My sketchbook: Goh in the ivory tower

The President & His Ministars: Get Rich or Die Tryin
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The President and his Pocket Money
- Yawning Bread: Cut the president’s pay
- Desparatebeep: How Much You Earn ah…?
- My sketchbook: The president gets a pay raise

Daily Discourse
- New Nation: CNA profiteering from Japan earthquake? Nothing new there
- Sgpolitics.net: Nuclear energy will always be too dangerous for Singapore
- Senang Diri: Who watches the Watchers?
- Anonymous X: Lawrence Yeo a loanshark only for Filipino maids

Life, the universe and everything
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Singapore Biennale 2011: What to Expect

Selected News Stories
- CNN: Explosion rocks another Japanese nuclear building

Daily SG: 11 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- New Asia Republic: LTK: I didn’t fall into NCMP Trap
- Sgpolitics.net: Good governance, transparency and accountability? Time bombs of PAP rule (Part II)
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Opposition Unity as an election issue
- The Temasek Review: TR talks to Dr Chee Soon Juan of SDP
- The Temasek Review: An analysis of alternative parties from an opposition supporter
- TOC: NSP gets a boost to election campaign
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: NSP: Marriage in heaven or hell?
- CNA: NSP reveals its first slate of election candidates
- New Asia Republic FB: NSP reveals GE Candidates (10/03/2011) [Pics] [Thanks Donaldson]

Bloggers say
- TOC: Are We a Nation?
- On Nation and State: The Conservative Soul: A call for small Government
- ALVINOLOGY: Online Comedian Steven Lim to Contest in Potong Pasir for Coming Election?
- Today Voices: GE’s about how each of us wants to be governed
- Political Writings: 六大門派攻打光明顶 [Thank Lee]

The Gospel of Harry
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Straws for optimists
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: One Country Two Systems Part V

Leave no ones behind
- Sgpolitics.net: Lending the Poor a Helping Hand
- TOC: Comcare: Moving statistics?
- TOC: Dr Lily Neo – a rare PAP breed
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Massive Propagada for PAP MPs (GST Helps the Poor)

The President & His Ministars: Get Rich or Die Tryin
- Singapore Notes: This Should Make You Puke
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Singapore President Worth 10 American Presidents!
- mrbrown: Congrats to next President for his almost $900,000 pay increment!

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Education In Singapore: In Defence Of Essay Software

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Jacob 69er: Singapore Law Minister ‘guilty of professional misconduct’

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- New Asia Republic: How Singapore can establish a niche in complementary medicine

Daily Discourse
- catherinelim.sg: Interview on BBC’s documentary: What Can I Say?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Law Minister urges SPF on more crime-fighting
- Ray of Light: Caregivers Registry- Raymond writes 2 letters to the press

Life, the universe and everything
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Reasons why Singapore is home..

Selected News Stories
- BBC: Documentaries: What Can I say [Thanks A]
- The Star: Mixed views on KL-Singapore rail link
- ALIRAN: Damning diaspora data
- Ars Technica: The essence of the ‘Net: a history of the protocols that hold the network together
- gdgt: Is it time for a cloud camera?
- All Things D: iPad 2: Thin, Not Picture Perfect

Daily SG: 10 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: Good governance, transparency and accountability? Time bombs of PAP rule
- The Temasek Review: Worker’s Party irks other parties with its arrogance

Bloggers say
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Watch Part VIII – The Digital Warfare in Electoral Battle
- TOC: Letter Comparison: Plugging for TV debate before GE
- My Singapore News: Message from Parliament
- Javert’s World: A proud nation.
- Political Writings: The Party Political Broadcast I would like to hear [Thanks Lee]
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Burma elections ‘similar to Singapore’
- SG- Quitters: What the PAP wants and what the Opposition may provide.. [Thanks Wing]
- AlterNet Views: The Tiny Dot

The Gospel of Harry
- Molitics: Race: When Valorization is Vilification
- Singapore Notes: Confusing Confucius
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Election goodies: proves the point that PAP needs to be spurred?
- FTP: Time to move on from MM Lee’s comments
- minxinglee Youtube: Lee Kuan Yew Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going Interview – Hot-button Topics

Re education
- TOC: A lesson in citing irrelevant statistics
- The Temasek Review: Slow start for the poor?
- Yours Truly Singapore: School system ‘still best way to move up’
- Words of the Cze: Mohawk

Strangers in a Strange Land
- This is home: Fake Talents in Singapore? [Thanks Chen Shen]

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- musictheatre: Doctors’ Fees [Thanks George]

Daily Discourse
- Illusio: ASEAN diplomacy, Singapore style!
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: A stormtrooper for extreme capitalism
- AWARE: Gender Equity Essential for Singapore’s Next Lap

Life, the universe and everything
- New Nation: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: Creative Technology? Never heard of it
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Home – a rendition by ordinary Singaporeans

Infoblogoramus
- New Nation: Book Giveaway [Thanks SH]
- erwinchan: The Zeitgeist Movement in Singapore – Event 12 March 2011 | 4-8pm

Selected News Stories
- Harvard International Review: The Future of One-Party Rule in Singapore
- Haaretz Daily Newspaper: Tshuva opts out of Singapore
- RTTNews: Singapore 2011 Inflation To Reach 4%: MAS Survey
- Reuters: IMF: Signs of overheating in emerging markets
- News.com.au: Moonageddon: on March 19, our nearest neighbour will be at its closest since 1993
- Ars Technica: Anonymous revives Operation Payback, wages war on “copywrong”
- PC World: Who Wins in the Microsoft-Nokia $1 Billion Deal?
- Zenroll: Asia [SG] steroids site owns Charlie Sheen’s Tiger Blood
- Geek.com: First ever browser address bar game created in HTML 5

Daily SG: 9 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Singapore Alternatives: Friendship and Politics
- Icarus Flew Too High: Losing Friends and Making Enemies, the GMS Way
- SDP: We are on the verge of an electoral revolution

Bloggers say
- TOC: Is GE 2011 about PAP leadership renewal?
- The Temasek Review: Breaking the GRC Barrier
- Feed Me To The Fish: Break Time
- Political Writings: There’s No Point Having An Election If Half The Opposing Candidates Are Loonies [Thanks Lee]

The Gospel of Harry
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Is MM Lee’s Induced Correction Sincere?
- Sgpolitics.net: Is MM Lee facing pressure within the PAP? [Thanks G]
- TOC: Where’s the apology, MM?
- My Singapore News: Why is there a need to apologise?
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Hard Truths
- Figuring how faith fits into this world: LKY : “I stand corrected”
- AlterNet Views: Harry Hard Truth
- Musings From the Lion City: Backing Down…Sort Of
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Hard Truths & soft facts
- SpotlightOnSingapore: MM wrong on Malay integration: but why no apology?
- ST Forum: Explain role of NTUC in politics

Strangers in a Strange Land
- ST Forum: Why insist on holding maids to lower standard of rights?
- ST Forum: Singaporeans shouldn’t be disadvantaged

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Enhancing Education For Special-Needs Students
- pressrun.net: A Singapore minister from the heartland
- mrbrown: I am Gum Dong Liu Lei that MOE quote me but…

Daily Discourse
- Rachel Zeng: My thoughts on this International Women’s Day
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: On the ground, strangely depopulated

Selected News Stories
- AFP: Mahathir says Lee wanted to be Malaysian PM
- Reuters: Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology
- Good Morning Silicon Valley: Foray for Hollywood: Facebook
- My Modern Metropolis: Up-Inspired Floating House (14 photos)
- Tech65.org: Samsung Galaxy S2 First Look

Daily SG: 8 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- NSP Facebook: NSP Open House And Volunteer Recruitment Drive
- ST: Opposition parties show their hand in hot seats

Bloggers say
- TOC: Reforming Singapore’s voting process: the Single Transferable Vote (STV)
- Desparatebeep: Change – Yes We Can – We’ll Stay the Same.
- The Kent Ridge Common: Enough of political opinions from Eugene Tan?
- Jacob 69er: Beware the commentators this elections
- Illusio: From civil service to political service
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Sengkang Hospital: not an election sweetener. Really?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: ST and MM’s “I stand corrected”
- Javert’s World: A fake fake world
- Monsters & Critics: Singapore’s ruling party gears up for election campaign

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How the Poor cope with rising food prices in Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Sgpolitics.net: Job enclaves a slap in the face for TAFEP

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Remove uncertain component of means testing in MediShield use
- TOC: Navigating the complexities of MediShield and Medisave

Daily Discourse
- Mr Wang Says So: Body Art, Social Conditioning and the SAF
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: A Few Words to the Aspiring Animator and the Industry
- ST Forum: CHANGE THIS ATTITUDE – School sports is about winning, not passion

Life, the universe and everything
- New Nation: My girlfriend and I are addicted to Google
- funny little world: Conversations with Granddad – Part 2

Infoblogoramus
- IPS Facebook: IPS Arts, Culture and Media: New Facebook Page

Selected News Stories
- News One: Sikhs in Singapore: Turbanators with rich tradition of donning uniform
- The Star: Feasibility studies on high-speed KL-Singapore rail
- NZ Herald: Singapore pushes hard for ASX deal
- TechCrunch: In Search Of The Internet Kill Switch
- AFP: World’s sixth mass extinction may be underway — study
- Daily Mail: Earliest surviving Monopoly set fetches whopping auction figure
- MSNBC: ‘Two suns’ spotted in China defy explanation
- Wired: 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?
- Tech65.org: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 First Look

Daily SG: 7 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: “Tony Tan & gang” to join SPP? Not true, says Tan
- TOC: Independent candidate Andrew Kuan asked to leave Opposition meeting
- The Temasek Review: Possible ‘battleground’ for the opposition parties
- I’m getting personal: Young Democrats make GE pledge
- CNA: Opposition parties to contest all seats
- Today: NSP ‘not worried’ about 3-cornered battle in Whampoa
- Today: Potential roadblock for SPP-RP alliance?
- FTP: We will give them a hard fight: Opposition

Bloggers say
- TOC: Will voters give WP vote of confidence?
- New Asia Republic: Outcome of Opposition Roundtable
- New Asia Republic: Options for the Gang of Nine
- Sgpolitics.net: NCMP scheme is a bait for the opposition
- The Temasek Review: Can Opposition Parties Bring Reform Without Winning Majority of Seats?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Time For A Comprehensive Election Debate?
- De Leviathan @ SG: Budget gives more than required – Ministers’ Pay?
- Singapore Life and Times: Elect Them?
- Memories Archipelago: Singaporeans all across the country may finally get to vote in the upcoming General Elections!
- Big Talk Singapore: Singapore GE: Opposition parties to contest all seats
- Sam’s thoughts: The daftness of complacent duds who love peanuts
- The Owl: In Singapore, 30 Pieces Of Silver For Your Vote [Thanks lkajs]
- Global Voices: Singapore: Netizens Discuss Election Issues [Thanks G]
- Shanghaiist: Attention, Singaporeans! Sign up for Singapore Day 2011! [Thanks K]
- The Star: PAP enters the digital warfare [Thanks G]

Electoral Boundaries
- TOC: GRC system: Wool Over Eyes (Part 1 of 6)
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Will the morning after see 86:1? [Thanks George]
- Today: Boundaries review panel should be neutral

Budget 2011
- The Kent Ridge Common: GST System: Benefit the rich or the poor?
- The Lycan Times: Budget 2011

Reform Party Resignations
- New Asia Republic: KJ accuses former RP members for smashing RP HQ door

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: What are the risks for Singaporeans in PAP’s foreigners reliant economic model?
- TOC: TOC reader questions policy on foreign immigrants

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: Healthcare subsidies: Reply without answers?
- Mr Wang Says So: Notes from a H1N1 Survivor
- Singapore Notes: Survivor – The Singapore Episode
- Brudirect.com: It’s Time for Medical Probe on Gleneagles JPMC
- The Malaysian Insider: Twists and turns as sensational case shatters Singapore calm

CPF
- The Temasek Review: Who really benefits from CPF LIFE?

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Jacob 69er: UN to review Singapore’s human rights record on 6th May 2011

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- The Temasek Review: Is Singapore’s foreign investments always ‘accident prone’?

Daily Discourse
- Molitics: Gender Inequalities: The Problems with Alexis Ong
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Circus bears and other thoughts from Hard Truths
- The Temasek Review: Do Singaporeans Value Others’ Sacrifice For Singapore?
- catherinelim.sg: Letter to ST on Miss Seetoh In The World
- Singapore Social Media Training: Government & Social Media
- just rambling: Is Design Only For The Rich?

Life, the universe and everything
- New Asia Republic: What it means to be a libertarian
- Anonymous_X: Tarnation!! Kelly Ong Xiao Wei aka KellyMILKIES criticised for being unintelligible?! [Thanks wacky]
- NOTES FROM SERANGOON ROAD: Biennale Screening Details

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 5-12 Mar

Selected News Stories
- Property Report: Singapore property prices may be hurt by supply surge in 2013 and 2014
- Taipei Times: Sex business is booming in Singapore
- The Globe and Mail: 7 steps to becoming a successful despot
- WordPress: DDoS Attacks Take Our Site Down – The Whole Story

Daily SG: 4 Mar 2011

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- The Temasek Review: Exclusive: Singapore Democratic Alliance clears the air
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SDA: Don’t get emotional, don’t have blood on yr hands
- Straits Times: Chiam’s former protege quits SPP, rejoins SJP
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: What’s wrong with 3-cornered contests?
- Where Bears Roam Free: CNA on SDP’s exclusion – all hot air, nothing explained
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: SDP complain about not invited to Talking Point

Bloggers say
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Watch Part VII – Chilli Crab Recipe Tailored For Cooking Productivity
- Ravi Philemon: By-Election strategy is flawed

Budget 2011
- TOC: Bonus for ministers, peanuts for most?
- TOC: GDP Bonus: Lots of dollar$ but no sense
- Sgpolitics.net: Budget Recommendation: Slash defence spending by $1B and increase growth dividends by 65%
- Singapore Notes: Real World Salaries
- Sgpolitics.net: Tharman’s fishy example about foreigners creating jobs for locals
- Illusio: Tharman Shammugaratnam’s crowning clown moment

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Desparatebeep: The Problems when you ASS U ME

Singaporeans, a dying breed
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Falling Birth Rates: Doing Nothing Is Not The Way Either

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore’s human rights: lame excuses?

Housing Singaporeans
- Singapore Notes: It’s All Done With Mirrors

Your National Service
- Military Life: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

Daily Discourse
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Financial Issues Top Cause of Our Divorces?

Life, the universe and everything
- Aussie Pete: Must See Video – Singapore Food Trail With Famous Bloggers Aussie Pete, YongWei, Mint and Cherie

Selected News Stories
- CNA: Mugabe to Singapore for another eye check
- AFP: World can handle choked oil supplies says Geithner
- Science Mag: Gigantic Remelted Ice Mass Discovered Below Antarctic Ice Sheet
- BBC: Android hit by rogue app viruses

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