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Singapore General Elections 2011

Sembawang GRC – Singapore Democratic Party
Woodlands Stadium, 1 Woodlands St 13, 7pm

East Coast GRC – Worker’s Party
Bedok Stadium, 1 Bedok North St 2, 7pm

West Coast GRC – The Reform Party
Clementi Stadium, 10 West Coast Walk, 7pm

Whampoa SMC – National Solidarity Party
Open field along Jalan Tenteram, near Blk 65A JTC factory, 7pm

Potong Pasir SMC – Singapore People’s Party
Open field bounded by Upper Serangoon Road, Meyappa Chettair & Potong Pasir Ave 1, 7pm

Aljunied
- The Satay Club: Who is George Yeo kidding?
- TOC: What is the spirit of democracy?
- TOC: Low to Yeo: Clarify what happens to Aljunied plans if PAP loses
- TOC: Walking the road to Aljunied
- New Nation: George Yeo soon to be jobless?
- The Satay Club: Help George into erly retirement
- The Satay Club: Lee Kuan Yew steps into Aljunied battle
- Sgpolitics.net: Emotional dilemna created by WP? Mr George Yeo, the PAP did it first in 1991!
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: How many people at the Workers’ Party rally in Serangoon?
- Unfortunately Singapore: GE2011: The Aljunied Conundrum
- The Blue Sweater: A Moral Dilemma?
- Think Happiness: No Emo Dilemma in Aljunied Obviously
- why liddat?: and the threats keep rolling in for aljunied
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Workers’ Party Aljunied GRC Rally (Serangoon Stadium 29 April)
- GE 2011 Media: WP s Low Thia Khiang at Aljunied GRC rally [Thanks ge2011media]
- GE 2011 Media: WP s Png Eng Huat at Aljunied GRC rally [Thanks ge2011media]
- GE 2011 Media: WP s Chen Show Mao at Aljunied GRC rally [Thanks ge2011media]

Hong Kah North
- TOC: SPP: ‘This is Singapore and this is our home.’
- Where Bears Roam Free: A moving speech by Chiam See Tong you must see
- The Satay Club: ‘You give me more applause than I deserve’
- GE 2011 Media: SPP s Chiam See Tong at Hong Kah North rally [Thanks ge2011media]
- Youtube: SPP’s Lina Chiam at Hong Kah North rally

Yuhua
- The Satay Club: Tan Jee Say blast Temasek and GIC losses
- Singapore Kopi Tok: A Tale of Two Opposition Parties
- The Lycan Times: Singapore Democratic Party Jurong East Stadium Rally – April 29, 2011
- Youtube: SDP’s Tan Jee Say at the Yuhua SMC rally

Radin Mas
- Youtube: NSP (CCK) Tony Tan’s Speech at Radin Mas Rally Part 1, Part 2

Moulmein Kallang
- Youtube: PAP’s Lui Tuck Yew at Moulmein Kallang GRC rally

Ang Mo Kio
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: PAP Ang Mo Kio GRC Rally at YCK Stadium (29 April)

Hougang
- New Asia Republic: WP Rally leaves an imperfect impression
- Article 14: Graduating from a Spare tyre to a co-driver to a slap on the face!
- The Kent Ridge Common: Chen Show Mao’s rally: Helping the lions of Singapore find their courage
- Gerald Giam: GE 2011 Rally Speech in Hougang
- GE 2011 Media: Chen Show Mao at WP Hougang Rally part 1, Part 2 [full unedited ver including Malay, Tamil, Mandarin]

Holland – Bukit Timah
- New Asia Republic: The Holland-Bukit Timah Connection
- TOC: SDP Puts On A Fiery Show
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Quick impressions from the SDP rally on 28 April for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: Democrats take PAP to task for uncaring policies at first rally

West Coast
- TOC: “RP is about returning power to the people!”

Mountbatten
- Think Happiness: Jeannette for Mountbatten

East Coast
- Memories Archipelago: 3rd Rally site for The Workers’ Party in GE 2011

Misc Rally Articles
- The Satay Club: Rally Roundup: Day one
- The Satay Club: Rally Roundup: Day two
- Hun Boon’s Blog: GE rallies on 30 Apr – catch SDP’s rally for Sembawang GRC, SPP’s rally for Potong Pasir, and WP’s rally for East Coast GRC
- TOC: Pictures from the rallies on Friday, 29 April
- Sgpolitics: Photos and Videos for 29 April GE rallies

Opposition Parties
- Feed Me To The Fish: The True Singapore Girl
- GE 2011 Media: Nicole Seah – I Believe [Thanks ge2011media]

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Ravi Philemon: PM Lee Hsien Loong invokes the bogeyman of the violent Parliament
- TOC: Freak result? What do you fear?
- Singapore Notes: The Chicken Little Election Strategy
- Molitics: 6 Dumb Singaporean Election Claims
- Molitics: Bus Driver Self-Pwn

Housing
- Quirkychic: Dissecting the Housing Issue
- Singapore Notes: Affordable Housing Is In Sight
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Property prices: Going against natural laws

Healthcare
- Singapore M.D.: Healthcare issues: “No-Go Zone”

Manifesto
- The Rot Within: Comparison of Manifestos

Bloggers say
- The Satay Club: Will the crowds translate into votes?
- TOC: Brace yourself for 87-0
- Words of the Cze: The Workers’ Party 2011
- Sgpolitics.net: Singapore Pte Ltd — a letter
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: Why your vote doesn’t matter
- Laïcité: What the elites (or rather, elitists) think
- TOC: I don’t know how to vote, but do you?
- TOC: Dealing with democracy from young
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: What the PAP do not want you to know
- ERPZ: Nudging with Statistics
- Babolat: PAP = Government = Parliament?
- Boleh! Boleh!: General Elections 2011 – The Rally
- Think Happiness: Public Servants, Political Realities & Prime Minister Sylvia Lim
- The Kent Ridge Common: Meeting for Arts and the General Elections
- TOC: An unfortunate encounter with NSP – a note to the opposition candidates
- the mrbrown show: gee ahruh see (music video)

The Noose
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Hidden Agenda of the Straits Times Editorial
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Print media — some things change, some things stay the same
- TOC: 21-year old disgusted with Straits Times
- The Star: 2011 election being fought on the net
- Free Malaysia Today: Singapore’s rulers fighting like never before
- Yahoo: ‘Allegations are false and my conscience is clear’
- Yahoo: ‘It felt like Stefanie Sun came on stage’

April 30th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Singapore General Election 2011
Aljunied GRC – Worker’s Party
7pm to 10pm
Serangoon Stadium, 33 Yio Chu Kang Road

Yuhua SMC – Singapore Democratic Party
7pm to 10pm
Jurong East Stadium, 21 Jurong East St 31

Punggol East SMC - Singapore Democratic Alliance
7pm to 10pm
Open field bounded by Sengkang East Ave and Sengkang East Drive

Radin Mas SMC – National Solidarity Party
7pm to 10pm
Delta Hockey Pitch, 900 Tiong Bahru Road

Hougang
- TOC: To build a home: from Hougang to Aljunied
- Siew Kum Hong: Workers’ Party rocks Hougang, 28 Apr 2011
- New Asia Republic: Hammering their way into people’s hearts
- The Satay Club: Don’t be a cowardly lion
- Singapore Notes: Four Legs Good, Two Lees Bad
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Estimated 50,000 pax in Attendance At Workers’ Party Rally
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Workers’ Party Rally: S’poreans taken for a ride without co-driver
- Singapore Actually: Workers’ Party Rally at Hougang
- The Lycan Times: Workers’ Party Hougang Rally – April 28, 2011
- TOC: Photos of WP Rally at Hougang 28th April
- Youtube: Low Thia Khiang at Workers’ Party’s first rally
- Youtube: LTK closing speech in Mandarin at WP Rally in Hougang 28th April
- Yourube: Sylvia Lim at The Workers’ Party’s first rally
- Youtube: Chen Show Mao at Workers’ Party’s first rally

Holland – Bukit Timah
- Sgpolitics.net: A voter speaks up: How I shall choose my MPs in this GE
- Blogging for Myself: Went to the SDP rally
- Blogging for Myself: Which one? PAP or SDP for Holland-Bukit Timah
- Singapore Actually: Vincent Wijeysingha Moves the Crowd at the SDP Rally at Commonwealth (& Kenneth Jeyaretnam at West Coast)
- My Singapore News: Some pics of the SDP Rally at Commonwealth Ave
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Send Khaw to Johor Bahru: Dr James Gomez’s speech at SDP’s 1st Election Rally
- Youtube: Dr Ang Yong Guan at SDP’s rally in Holland-Bukit Timah GRC
- Youtube: 28 April 2011: SDP’s Vincent Wijeysingha Rally Speech

Marine Parade
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Nicole Seah makes political rally debut
- TOC: NSP: “It is about you.”
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: National Solidarity Party (NSP) Marine Parade Rally – 27 April 2011
- In the Beginning was the Logos: A Short Reflection on the Opposition Rally
- Youtube: Nicole Seah at National Solidarity Patry’s first rally
- R3load.net: Nicole Seah at her first NSP Rally [another view] [Thanks IZ]

West Coast
- funny little world: Legislation, not administration.
- Youtube: Kenneth Jeyaretnam at RP’s first rally at West Coast GRC part 2

Sembawang
- Youtube: SDP’s James Gomez: “We are going to send him to Johor Bahru!”

Punggol East
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: The Workers’ Party Punggol East election flier

Joo Chiat
- Yee Jenn Jong: Action items for Joo Chiat SMC

Buangkok
- TOC: Photos of PAP rally at Buangkok 28th April 2011

Misc Rally Articles
- why liddat?: party political broadcast 1 – 28 apr 2011
- Small steps for Social PR: Which election rally in Singapore attracted the Foursquare generation the most?

Political Party Broadcast
- pressrun.net: Pritam Singh shines, calls for a life “holistic, not materialistic”
- Alvinology: English TV Political Broadcast of All Political Parties in Singapore GE 2011

Opposition Parties
- TOC: Two old friends, one new goal
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Rest in peace – David Goh

Nomination Day
- New Nation: Bikers in white back PAP
- The Satay club: The great Steve Tan cover-up
- Today: Baptism of fire would have done PAP’s last-hour candidate good

Vivian Balakrishnan vs Vincent Wijeysingha
- Organic-Ally: Kookaburra gay your life must be: one Christian view [Thanks SP]
- deadpris: What is YOUR Agenda? Singapore GE 2011
- ST Forum: PAP need not have resorted to ‘smear tactics’
- ST Forum: Drawing a line between privacy and politics
- ST Forum: It was a personal attack, and wrong
- ST forum: A secret voters deserved to know

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Singapore Life and Times: Devil fight devil

Housing
- Eight percent per annum: What’s Wrong with HDB Prices?
- Yahoo: Battlelines drawn on affordable public housing
- ST Forum: That’s a long time to service home loan
- CNBC: Low Interest Rates May Be Masking Singapore Debt Bubble: Economist

Aljunied
- Article 14: Low in Aljunied: Masterstroke or Fatal Mistake?
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Paradox of An Electorate’s Emotional Dilemma

Manifesto
- TOC: SDP manifesto tackles major issues
- Today: SDP unveils manifesto

Cost of living
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Make things right for Singapore..

Bloggers say
- flaneurose: When in doubt, turn to the data (Generational Shift Effect)
- flaneurose: When in doubt, turn to the data (GDP and Median Household Income)
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Change must come soon..
- Chapter Two: Reload: Gen-Y: Independent, young and unpredictable
- TOC: Don’t be afraid to use the stick – TOC reader
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Candidate Selection Process: What If The PAP Is Wrong?
- Blogging for Myself: Poll cards arrive
- Winter Is Coming: Much Ado About Optimism
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Why we need opposition parties to be co-driver
- Fearfully Opinionated: What does Dr Chia Shi-Lu tell us about Ms Tin Pei Ling, the PAP and the electorate?
- On Nation and State: How many constituencies will the Opposition win? The Cube Rule speaks.
- Majulah!: Some of the Majulah! articles you should read before voting…
- New Nation: Stuck in Switzerland

The Noose
- Chapter Two: Reload: Straits Times front page factual error
- ST: NSP chief’s brother dies but campaign goes on
- The Star: Young candidates of substance
- Free Malaysia Today: Singapore requires a credible alternative

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: The People We Can Never Give Back

April 29th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Singapore General Election 2011
Nomination Day
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A General View of the Opposition Prowess
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Shambles in Tanjong Pagar, oiled machine in Yuhua
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: At the Jurong Nomination Centre
- Political Writings: Towards A First-World Election Process [Thanks Lee]
- Prata Politics: The Brawl Begins
- The Blue Sweater: When the Biggest Risk is Not Taking One
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: What a feeling! Welcome, post-LKY Singapore!
- Think Happiness: The Game-Changing Union Man
- Words of the Cze: Id
- Food fuels me to talk: Opposition goes for lousy odds
- Politics in Singapore: GE 2011: Battleground GRCs & SMCs!
- Lycan Times: Nomination Day
- My Singapore News: The Good and Bad on Nomination Day
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Singapore’s Hidden Cheerleaders Found At General Elections Nomination Day
- SpotlightOnSingapore: PAP challenged for 82 seats: break their monopoly
- Dyxalic: Graciousness [Thanks Brandon]
- Blogging for Myself: PAP leaves the rubbish. SDP cleans it up
- The Satay Club: High drama on nomination day
- New Asia Republic: Singapore emerges victorious on Nomination Day
- Yahoo: Nomination Day Live Coverage

Aljunied
- TOC: Low Thia Khiang explains his decision to move out of Hougang
- The Satay Club: Low: Tough decision, but the time is now
- Sgpolitics.net: WP’s Aljunied team likely to make GRC breakthrough
- The Satay Club: All or nothing gambit for Low Thia Kiang
- The Temasek Review: Is Low Thia Kiang taking a huge gamble by contesting in Aljunied GRC?
- Yahoo: One word: Aljunied
- Today: Spotlight set to fall on Aljunied GRC again

Tanjong Pagar
- The Satay Club: From unknown to MP in 24 hours
- TOC: 35 seconds
- TOC: Why SDA team missed deadline

Tampines
- TOC: The Steve Tan debacle – Singaporeans deserve a full account
- Singapore Notes: It’s Honourable To Screw Up

Holland – Bukit Timah
- Where Bears Roam Free: Was SDP cheated a walkover at Holland-Bukit Timah? [Thanks manee]
- CNA: SDP team raises objection against PAP’s Sim Ann

Marine Parade
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Campaign to make Nicole Seah Singapore’s most popular politician online
- The Satay Club: NSP ‘leaving thins to the young lady’
- Yahoo: Young candidates of substance

Sembawang
- Jacob 69er: {Photos and Video} Nomination Day speeches by SDP’s Sembawang GRC People’s Team

Hougang
- Hun Boon’s Blog: An evening with Workers’ Party’s Yaw Shin Leong
- The Satay Club: Yaw steps up in Hougang

Joo Chiat
- Yee Jenn Jong: GE2011 – I am WP’s candidate for Joo Chiat SMC

Opposition Parties
- WP: Mr Low Thia Khiang’s Open Letter to Voters of Hougang and Aljunied GRC (English)

Vivian Balakrishnan vs Vincent Wijeysingha
- Mr Wang Says So: An Analysis of a Commentary on the Alleged Evil Nature of Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
- Singapore Political Health: MCYS is too big a portfolio for Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
- Fearfully Opinionated: Dr Balakrishnan gambles on a risky tactic in the political fight of his life [Thanks FO]

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Desparatebeep: I am Fat and Bald – I have an Agenda – the Fat and Bald Agenda
- Feed Me To The Fish: Dear MM, we are not in the same boat!
- Kaffein-nated: Don’t provide us with more ammunition
- ST Forum: Another view of freak election results

Housing
- Singapore Notes: Just Look At The Scary Numbers
- Your Truly Singapore: Housing queries WP should have asked
- singapore: A Disgruntled Singaporean [Thanks ss]

Healthcare
- Majulah!: Fog of War; The issue we should be concern about.

Minister Salaries
- Organic-Ally: MPs’ salary: Is Confucius out of fashion today? [Thanks sp]

Bloggers say
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: It all begins with political apathy
- Words of the Cze: Pillar
- The Blue Sweater: To be young was very heaven!
- Ben Leong Facebook: Response to “A letter to my friends on the General Elections” [Login required]
- Nomadism: Reflecting over Singapore & Singapore Elections…& Bravo Nicole Seah. Bravo.
- New Asia Republic: Cynics should vote for the Opposition (Part 2)
- Balderdash: My Bets for the Singapore General Election 2011
- visakan veerasamy: The duties that accompany change, by Dharma Sadasivan
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Things we should all know – that the Civil Service is independent of any political party
- Singapore Short Stories: Why PAP faces the hottest election battle in years?
- Singapore Short Stories: The Workers’ Party: Towards A First World Parliament
- Senang Diri: Terror threats during Singapore’s 2011 General Election
- Arra’s World: The Country Rests On 1 Vote. And That 1 More. And That 1 More.
- Singapore Actually: Singapore Elections 2011: The Policies I Like the Best
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP candidates: 16.7% casuality rate already
- MyQueenstown: Votes #8 – Apprehension, Worries & Fears [Thanks Daniel]
- Rants of a Weird Little Bird: What Chiam See Tong Might Say After His Appearance Today
- Rachel Zeng: Just some words
- Kiwipolitico: A door cracks open in the Little Red Dot [Thanks Nick]
- Meena Curren’s Blog: PAP SCANDAL UNFOLDS!
- ST Forum: PAP should spell out clearly why it’s different now

The Noose
- Today: Reform Party pulls together team to take on PAP in Ang Mo Kio
- Today: Three-cornered fight in Punggol East
- Today: PAP’s Cedric Foo to face NSP’s Steve Chia in Pioneer
- Today: PAP veteran faces WP candidate who grew up in Joo Chiat SMC
- Today: ‘We are not a suicide squad’
- Yahoo: GE candidates have their say
- WSJ: Singapore Opposition Contests Record Number of Seats
- Asia Sentinel: Singapore Election Upset?
- The Hindu: Singapore poised for unusual poll
- Radio Australia: Why May 7 may be Singapore’s watershed election

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Press Statement from the Save Vui Kong Campaign on Cheong Chun Yin
- We Believe In Second Chances: A Letter to the President and PM of Singapore, from Jesleen Cheong
- We Believe In Second Chances: Chun Yin’s family present petition signatures to Istana

April 28th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Singapore General Election 2011
Nomination Day
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: It’s the night before Nomination day. What’s stirring?
- TOC: TOC NOMINATION DAY Coverage

Opposition Parties
- Singapore Alternatives: Back to Fundamentals
- Yaw Shin Leong @ WP: Why Rock The Boat?
- Sylvia Lim’s Blog: Thoughts on the eve of Nomination Day
- The Itch To Write: The last lap
- Gerald Gaim: Support WP’s East Coast GRC team on Nomination Day
- TOC: No more 3-cornered fight in Mountbatten
- The Temasek Review: Response to ‘Reform Party’s close call with GE Paperwork’

Vivian Balakrishnan vs Vincent Wijeysingha
- Laïcité: Who will the moderates choose?
- Words of the Cze: COIN
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Vivian, Vincent and the Video
- Sgpolitics.net: Message to Vivian Balakrishnan and the PAP — FOCUS on the ISSUES
- Mr Wang Says So: Vivian Balakrishnan Casts Doubt on His Own Good Character
- onesingaporean: The day Vivian lit a match
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Will Vivian Balakrishnan’s smear campaign damage his GRC mates?
- Prata Politics: Slime, Smears and Slurs
- Think Happiness: PAP Provokes $179 Grow and Share Package For SDP
- TOC: Criticisms posted on Balakrishnan’s Facebook page deleted
- Deep thoughts of a Singapore Critic: Why don’t you be straightforward as well Dr Vivian Balakrishnan?
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: The eye doctor is now peddling snake oil! [Thanks YL]
- Singpaore MD: Doctors and Politics III (Local)
- The Satay Club: Gomez slams Vivian for “playing dirsty”
- Lynn Lee Facebook: Problem Solving, Vivian-style
- funny little world: To TNP: No gutter journalism, please.
- Molitics: Beware of the Straight Agenda
- My Sketchbook: Who wants to join me..
- Today Voices: A ‘rainbow coalition’ or no?

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Molitics: Bravado, Blame and Insecurity: Fearfully Alienating Singaporeans
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Sad day when political reporters become celebrity paparazzi
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Spreading the fear of freak results and losing ministers in GRCs.
- Mr Wang Says So: Please Look at the Fundamentals Before You Vote
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Political Role of Singapore President
- Yee Jenn Jong: The fear factor, Singapore style
- The Mind Game: A PSC scholar is not a PAP scholar
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: “Freak” election outcomes?
- Musings From the Lion City: PAP Strategy
- innersanctum: of agendas, red herrings and red flags
- Today Voices: What happened to ‘vote with your head, not heart’?

Nicole Seah vs Tin Pei Ling
- Nicole Seah FB: My brief take on the 377A Penal Code
- The Satay Club: Mainstream media twists the truth
- Where Bears Roam Free: Nicole Seah’s Facebook – her inexperience shows [Thanks manee]

Housing
- Chapter Two: Reload: Dummy letter to Minister of National Development
- TOC: Divorced – and facing housing woes
- ST Forum: How Govt and MPs should tackle home affordability

Cost of Living
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: A GST Promise by Tharman
- Today Voices: Why this hawker can’t afford to maintain prices

Manifesto
- On Nation and State: Making Sense of the Worker’s Party Manifesto 2011

Immigration
- flaneurose: When in doubt, turn to the data (Immigration)

Malay as a foreign language
- TOC: Dr Yaacob, do you understand why your remark was misunderstood?

New Mandarins on the Block
- Singapore Political Health: HR department at PAP needs help [Thanks Dr.M]

Bloggers say
- New Asia Republic: Cynics should vote for the Opposition (Part 1)
- Barnyard Chorus: The Farm Awards: Your Candidate and Their Track Records
- Empty Vessel: How To Survive The Social Media Elections
- Fearfully Opinionated: Key differences in this general election (by Sze-Meng Soon)
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Desperate Appeal of the Minister Mentor
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Discrimination against the poor with foreign spouse…
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: The Opposition Dilemma
- TOC: Hard truths about integration
- The Temasek Review: Our dying Animation industry
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP needs to hear one message — that Singaporeans are not happy
- Singapore Kopi Tok: My Fellow Bloggers.
- Blogging for Myself: The meaning of Steve Tan dropping out as a candidate
- Fearfully Opinionated: RAdm Lui Tuck Yew walkabout double fail?
- visakan veerasamy: Why you should care about the coming General Elections, even if you can’t vote.
- Freak Thoughts: 3 reasons why (I think) the oppositions in Singapore will not win
- Singapore Election Watch: This is a very strange election, compared to 2006
- Singapore Notes: Now A Word From The Sponsor
- Times They Are A-Changin’: The Battle Begins..
- Longadin.com: Of Apathy and Stepping Up
- Ahmad in Taiwan: Only weaklings suffer no criticism
- Organic-Ally: Singapore GE 2011: A view from overseas [Thanks LSP]
- TOC: A tale of two maid agencies – writer needs your advice
- Digital Terrorist: How I Stop Being Critical and Paranoid During the General Elections
- GE 2011 Media: Election posters: Captain Singapore Chiam, Green Lantern Chee, IP Man Chiam, WP’s Thor, CSM, MBT Up [Thanks ge2011media]

The Noose
- Molitics: Man Arrested for Dunnowhat
- Today: Andrew Kuan withdraws from GE
- CNA: Reform Party set to contest in Ang Mo Kio GRC
- ST: Low to lead Worker’s Party’s team in Aljunied GRC?
- Reuters: Facebook, YouTube the new battlegrounds in Singapore elections

April 27th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- SDP: Chee Soon Juan responds to Vivian Balakrishnan
- TOC: GE is about us, our future: Chen Show Mao
- SDP: PAP’s constituency plans a political gimmick

Vivian Balakrishnan vs Vincent Wijeysingha
- Siew Kum Hong: Disgust and loathing in Singapore
- Sam’s thoughts: What’s your douchebag agenda, Dr Vivian?
- Chapter Two: Reload: Below the belt
- New Nation: Singapore Democratic Party sends mixed messages
- Sgpolitics.net: Gutter politics and political cowardice by Vivian Balakrishnan
- Illusio: On Vivian Balakrishnan
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Vivian’s bomb goes boo boo
- Where Bears Roam Free: Vincent Wijeysingha – Vivian plays dirty, SDP and gay community play ignorant [Thanks manee]
- Singapore Notes: Biting Off More Than He Can Chew
- funny little world: Dr Balakrishnan, Y U NO PLAY FAIR?
- Singapore Dino: Dr Balakrishnan, have you no decency?
- Musings From the Lion City: Open Season
- pressrun.net: Gay the poet, witty the poem
- Think Happiness: Appeal for Clean Campaign
- The Satay Club: Balakrishnan punches below the belt
- mrbrown: The New Paper sinks to a new low, even by their standards
- CNA: PAP questions Wijeysingha’s political agenda in light of video
- Today Voices: PAP’s statement on Wijeysingha disappointing

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Rachel Zeng: The Elections Department replied
- Vinyarb: PAP Flags before Nomination Day [Thanks Richard]
- The Satay Club: Above the law: PAP plants flags agead of schedule
- TOC: PAP flags – contravening Parliamentary Elections Act? (Updated)
- TOC: The “freak result” bogeyman
- Singapore Sojourn: Not Living In Disney World [Thanks Roger]
- ST Forum: Attributes of a First World Parliament [Thanks I]

Nicole Seah vs Tin Pei Ling
- TOC: Why Nicole Seah, Crystal Chow and students matter
- Figuring how faith fits into this world: On the under-30 year old MP aspirants
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Nicole Seah vs Tin Pei Ling: Round 1

Housing
- Chapter Two: Reload: HDB flats and the illusion of wealth
- TOC: HDB – S’poreans’ billions of ‘reserves’ raided?
- TOC: Long-time PAP supporter disappointed with Mah
- Vinyarb: MBT shows how HDB is Cheap! [Thanks Richard]
- Today Voices: Housing statistics don’t capture some real issues

Manifesto
- SPP: SPP Election Manifesto
- Blogging for Myself: Workers’ Party Video
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Workers’ Party: For People. For Nation. For Future.

Labour, unemployment
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Response to Goh Chok Tong’s Status Update on Blue Collared Workers
- Today Voices: Tilt PMET job opportunities in favour of locals

The Economy
- The Satay Club: Why the PAP’s flip-flops over manufacturing are worrying

Immigration
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Citizens and PRs at fab plant: Juz ask the company?
- Today Voices: How many Singaporeans exactly?

Transportation
- New Asia Republic: Historical perspective on liberalising public transport

Malay as a foreign language
- Sgpolitics.net: Yaacob clears the air over language comment but accuses “certain elements” of having ulterior motives

Minister Salaries
- visakan veerasamy: The Incentive Fallacy: The Elephant In The Room That Will Destroy Singapore.

Bloggers say
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: Disconnection
- Fearfully Opinionated: Should Mr Chiam really be running for elections?
- Desparatebeep: The Hard Truth About an Election!
- groundnotes: 10 Lessons from the GE so far
- under a Pipala Tree: Bradell Heights
- Javert’s World: Fear from the PAP camp
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The logistics behind the campaign and importance of volunteers…
- Think Happiness: Unfold the Untold Mas Selamat Story
- Deep thoughts of a Singapore Critic: It’s been so long!!!
- Feed Me To The Fish: Gratitude and Not Servitude. Slave No More!
- Musings From the Lion City: Every Vote Counts
- Political Writings: There’s Still Time, There’s Still Hope [Thanks Lee]
- TOC: Singapore Pte Ltd – a letter
- Small steps for Social PR: “Marketing Warfare” lessons from Singapore General Elections 2011
- Singapore Actually: Facebook Likes and the Election
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore GE 2011 electoral boundaries Google Map Overlay
- Facebook Group: Singaporeans For Reform [Thanks Lukas]

The Noose
- Molitics: Idiotic Letters to the ST Forum a Worry
- Empty Vessel: And now it is wrong to be a scholar?
- Yahoo: Minister’s ‘town hall’ visit to condo disappoints
- CNA: SDA not contesting in two SMCs, unveils manifesto
- CNA: SDA pulls out of Tanjong Pagar contest
- CNA: RP chief Jeyaretnam backs Wijeysingha amid video buzz
- CNA: Reform Party former vice-chairman Alec Tok joins SDP
- CNA: SPP’s Alex Tan likely to be in RP team to contest Ang Mo Kio GRC
- CNA: Workers’ Party’s final batch of candidates
- Today: A wrong sense of housing affordability: NSP’s Goh
- Today: Andrew Kuan plans for Joo Chiat
- Penn Olson: Opposition: Social Media Helps Bypass Pro-PAP Media
- Asia Sentinel: Singapore debates the PAP’s future
- Bloomberg: Davis Polk Partner Chen Challenges Singapore’s Ruling Party in Elections

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Letters from Vui Kong – The Second Letter: Me and My Life
- Yahoo: Singapore’s death penalty: Opportunity for change?
- Asia Sentinel: Hanging Mules in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Call for inter-ministerial effort to tackle autism issues

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: Rebuilding my childhood
- Alvinology: HTC’s “All I Need is My Desire!” Glass House Challenge – Bloggers’ Amazing Race with Contestants
- LIANAIN FILMS: Small Fry, Big Catch

April 26th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Singapore Generel Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- The Satay Club: Like a Pheonix from the flames
- TOC: Tan Jee Say’s paper on New Economy – reproduced here in full

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Chapter Two: Reload: Be very, very afraid of the electorate
- Article 14: Gridlock? In the Singapore Parliament? – That’s a red herring
- groundnotes: Bedroom Monsters
- The Satay Club: Attack the best form of defence for PAP
- Singapore Notes: War Without Words
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Two personalities and the economic issues
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Beware, The Night of the PAP ‘Daggers’: 6 May 2011 [Thanks YLee]
- Yee Jenn Jong: Heads I win, tails you lose
- why liddat?: exposing the PAP’s hypocrisy in Hougang
- The Kent Ridge Common: Residents complain about massive, wasteful display of PAP flags
- Rachel Zeng: PAP flags are up!
- Organic Ally: Mudslinging makes potatoes grow [Thanks LSP]

Vivian Balakrishnan vs Vincent Wijeysingha
- SDP: Dr Balakrishnan, please don’t panic
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Vivian slithers in the gutter, SDP on knife-edge, part 1, part 2
- Sam’s thoughts: Homophobia in the General Elections
- TOC: Vivian Balakrishnan needs to come clean on video
- Sgpolitics.net: Vivian Balakrishnan: FAILED as a minister
- Ravi Philemon: ‘Suppressed’ video of Vincent Wijeysingha

Nicole Seah vs Tin Pei Ling
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: A tale of two women
- New Nation: Nicole Seah: Ground is sweet, looking forward to competition
- Singapore Actually: Nicole Seah is turning out to be the People’s Princess
- Vivien’s Secret Garden: Great Feelings about Nicole Seah
- GE 2011 Media: Nicole Seah at Aljunied Market [Thanks ge2011media]
- ST Forum: We’re looking for sincerity, maturity in younger candidates

Housing
- Singapore Dino: Ministers contradict each other within the same day
- The Satay Club: Mah Bow Tan under the spotlight
- Where Bears Roam Free: Mah Bow Tan unwittingly highlights faulty land policy [Thanks manee]
- The Temasek Review: Emergency residents meeting at West Coast GRC over forced en bloc sale

Manifesto
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: Comprehensive Manifestoes As Fodder For Constructive Debate
- Illusio: General Elections 2011: Retrocognition & recognition
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: People’s Action Party Manifesto GE 2011

Labour, unemployment
- TOC: NSP responds to Gan Kim Yong’s remarks on manpower policies

Immigration
- My Little Corner: Foreign workers can help to create how many jobs?

Healthcare
- Singapore M.D.: Healthcare issues: Singapore general elections

Malay as a foreign language
- vanessa neo: Is Malay truly singapore national language? [Thanks lar]

New Mandarins on the Block
- Singapore Notes: A Test Of MM’s Standing

Bloggers say
- Die neue Welle: I am Singaporean VIII – A Response to “Response to ‘A letter to my friends on the General Elections’”
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Election buzz a minority interest
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Role of Social Media in Singapore General Elections 2011
- Quirkychic: Oh Elections, Elections
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Malay president: Forget it leh?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Do your part to avoid walkovers
- Three In One Kopi Guy: Reluctance To Debate: An Ironic Statement At This Time?
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Things they say – Lui Tuck Yew 1
- Mr Wang Says So: Lui Tuck Yew Shocks a Citizen During His Walkabout
- Blogging for Myself: PAP and Riding the Tiger of Globalization to ruin
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Wong Kan Seng’s Apology For Mas Selamat’s Escape A Precedence for Uniform Officers in MHA
- The Craftsman’s Forge: The Singapore Political Scene Has Irrevocably Changed
- Political Writings: The Death of PAP [Thanks Lee]
- Politics in Singapore: PAP potential office-holders and where they might go
- pressrun.net: Shakespeare for the polls
- ST Forum: More thorough access to parliamentary records, please

The Noose
- Think Happiness: Reply From ST: Give me a choice, ST
- CNA: WP rebuts Mah on housing polices, introduces more candidates
- CNA: Wijeysingha to lead SDP team in Holland-Bukit Timah
- CNA: RP checks out unhappiness over Clementi SERS

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Drugs and the Death Penalty – ”What can we do?”
- TOC: Families of death row inmates gather at private forum

Daily Discourse
- The Gigamole Diaries: Selling off our heritage
- New Asia Republic: A safety net for securing the South China Sea

Life, the universe and everything
- Vicky’s Writings: 881 Musical – A Review

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 23 Apr-1 May
- pinkdot.sg: Come make pink dot: 18 June 2011!

Selected News Stories
- The Economist: [Thanks Bernard]

April 25th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

General Elections 2011
Opposition Parties
- TOC: Workers’ Party introduces latest slate of candidates
- Politics in Singapore: Why Workers’ Party might be wrong
- The Temasek Review: SDP to announce its Sembawang GRC team at walkabout

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- TOC: Three local myths
- TOC: Remarks by PAP members made to confuse S’poreans: WP
- TOC: The track record that matters more
- why liddat?: open letter to shanmugam and indranee rajah
- Yaw Shin Leong: GE2011 Scare Tactic By the PAP
- The Temasek Review: PAP party political broadcast on cooling-off day?

Housing
- Chapter Two: Reload: Of raids and reserves
- The Lycan Times: Workers’ Party Manifesto on Public Housing

Immigration
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Does Local Workforce means Singaporean?

PAP Manisfesto
- Abdillah Zamzuri: People’s Action Party Manifesto Fluffy In Content

Transportation
- My Little Corner: Efficient MRT systems owned by the government

Cost of living
- Singapore Peak: PM Lee Hsien Loong on Peak Oil

Healthcare
- My Adult Life: Being hypocrites [Thanks Kelvin]

Capital Punishment
- funny little world: A Letter to Mr S Iswaran, PAP candidate in West Coast GRC

New Mandarins on the Block
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Papsicles 4
- The Kent Ridge Common: If Nicole Seah has no grassroots experience, what about the new PAP candidates?
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Vikram Nair
- TOC: Another social media boo boo by PAP MP?

Bloggers say
- Mr Wang Says So: Singapore’s Top Election Issue
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PAP has lost the moral high ground..
- TOC: Rationalising the warning signs
- Empty Vessel: Nicole Seah and Public Opinion
- Insane Polygons: Vote For Change
- The Kent Ridge Common: So, who are you voting for this elections?
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Way before 2016 – The Open Party
- Feed Me To The Fish: Grow and Share or Buy and Fix?
- My Singapore News: The election fault lines
- Abdillah Zamzuri: What’s Your Moral Decision Singapore?
- Singapore Notes: Close Encounter Of The Nasty Kind
- TOC: Shoulder parrots give MPs street cred
- Political Writings: 六大門派攻打光明顶 (Reprise) [Thanks Lee]

The Noose
- Singapore Notes: Pictures Paint A Thousand Words
- CNA: WP unveils 4 more candidates
- CNA: 2 Party Political Broadcasts on April 28 and May 6: MDA
- CNA: SDP unveils lineup for Sembawang GRC
- CNA: SPP seeks dialogue with Singaporeans
- Bernama: Lee Kuan Yew Has No Special Role In Singapore’s Upcoming General Election
- The Star: Kuan Yew to go for record 11th term
- The Star: SDP has better image now, says first-timer
- Penn Olson: The Nicole Seah Buzz on Facebook and Google

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

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- SDP: Democrats unveil first six candidates
- SDP: SDP introduces remaining 5 candidates
- NSP: National Solidarity Party Manifesto At A Glance
- TOC: Time to make a decision on S’pore: SDP
- The Itch To Write: Q & A with TNP
- Abdillah Zamzuri: National Solidarity Party’s Simplistic Manifesto Not Impressive
- The Satay Club: Election handouts raiding the reserves
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Chiam: The importance of EQ
- Rants of a Weird Little Bird: Nicole Seah’s Interview on Razor TV
- Anonymous_X: Zeng Guoyan … an independent candidate who once went to jail for 3 months, instead of paying $3,000 fine for misusing banners of Mas Selamat?? [Thanks wacky]

Independent Candidates
- Singapore Kopi Tok: The March of the Independents
- The Satay Club: Independent: Contenders or spoilers?

Housing
- Molitics: The PAP’s Unique No. 1 Election Strategy
- Chapter Two: Reload: Flat prices: enhancement or inflation
- Mr Wang Says So: Mah Bow Tan is “Proud” of the Asset Enhancement Policy
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Mr Mah, Housing Minister or Property Agent? [Thansk Lee]
- My Sketchbook: Master or servant?
- ST Forum: Affordable housing is Govt’s primary role

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- nofearSingapore: Welcome home, prodigal son, unless you are Chen Show Mao [Thanks Doc]
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Ng challenges Opposition to “form next govt”: don’t be daft

Immigration
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Lee Hsien Loong: Foreigner Help Create Good Jobs for Singaporeans?
- ST Blog: A Singapore for Singaporeans or to please foreign investors?

PAP Manisfesto
- TOC: PAP Manifesto 2011 – a statistical analysis
- Singapore 2025: The 2011 PAP Election Manifesto: Old Wine in Old Bottles?

New Mandarins on the Block
- Ravi Philemon: The extremely talented NTUC’s sub-unit
- My sketchbook: The army life and the civilian life

Transportation
- The Lycan Times: Workers’ Party Manifesto on Public Transport

Cost of living
- ST Forum: Rising cost of living is making life tough

Healthcare
- SDP: SDP to Khaw: Don’t mix religion with politics

Casinos and Gambling
- ST Forum: Worried about promotion of gambling

Malay as a foreign language
- Sgpolitics.net: The National Language

Bloggers say
- The Kent Ridge Common: Drawing the line on internet debates
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Importance of parties should not be overlooked
- Sam’s thoughts: Not mum about single mothers in Singapore
- New Asia Republic: The simple math behind winning hearts of voters
- Politics in Singapore: What GE 2011 means to a 21-year-old
- self-contained: killing sacred cows: on Singapore’s democratisation
- only blue, only blue: What are we exactly electing?
- Yee Jenn Jong: Spoiling your vote? Think carefully!
- Daily Breaks: Death From Complacency [Thanks Annabel]
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Impartial civil service
- Think For Me, Singapore: Why Tampines GRC needs to go to the opposition…
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: Would Jesus vote for the PAP?
- deadpris: Straits Times supports opposition?
- Abdillah Zamzuri: My Manifesto For Singapore – Magnifest-OH!
- Gweek Culter: Every Day Party Unveils Manifesto! [Thanks Gwee]
- Today: Governance, a serious business

The Noose
- CNA: PAP candidates prepare for possible contest in all wards
- Today: Former Civil Service high-flier says ‘Government has lost its way’
- Today: SDP to field former colonel
- AFP: Social media open up Singapore political debate

Daily Discourse
- pressrun.net: What’s SPH got that New York Times ain’t got?

Selected News Stories
- Eco-business: Tackling nuke waste in Singapore backyard

Infoblogoramus
- The Two Queens Party: The White Party 2011

April 23rd, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

General Elections 2011
Opposition Parties
- WP: Letter to ST Forum from Mr Gerald Giam
- SDP: This election is about the people of Singapore
- Yaw Shin Leong: Candidature Introduction (Q&A), Part 1, Part II
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Electoral Threat of the Workers’ Party (WP)
- TOC: WP’s new candidates want to work towards Govt accountability
- Politics: Return of the SPP
- The Satay Club: Teo Soh Lung unveiled as SDP candidate
- TOC: Tan Jee Say and Ang Yong Guan join SDP
- The Temasek Review: Psychiatrist Dr Ang Yong Guan may lead SDP team in Sembawang GRC
- Asiaone: Open letter by NSP to residents of Marine Parade

Housing
- Singapore Alternatives: Response to Minister Mah’s twisted logic
- Mr Wang Says So: Mah Bow Tan is so Disappointing
- De Leviathan @ SG: An illegal raid on the reserves? Mr Mah Should Explain About Ballooning Land Costs
- TOC: Don’t sidetrack on issue of public housing, Low tells Mah
- The Temasek Review: The fallacies of PAP’s ‘asset enhancement’ policies
- Today Voices: WP proposal reflects ground sentiment on costlier housing
- ST Forum: Better an affordable home, than asset enhancement

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- The Satay Club: Let the issues take centre stage
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Staking the higher ground
- Kent Ridge Common: Residents complain against the hanging of PAP flags
- The Temasek Review: PAP may contravene Parliamentary Elections Act by displaying its flags in public before Nomination Day
- Javert’s World: PAP newbies Parrots
- Yee Jenn Jong: I still fail to understand why there cannot be 2 quality teams
- Alvinology: Quoteworthy – Low Thia Khiang, Leader of the Workers’ Party

Immigration
- Singapore News Alternative: Commentary: A weak and unconvincing defense of the FT policy by PM Lee
- TOC: “Foreign workers help create good jobs for S’poreans: PM”
- The Satay Club: Two sides of the immigration coin
- Singapore Notes: More Good Years For Foreigners
- Kaffein-nated: You know you are second-class citizens when..
- My Singapore News: Can we survive without huge influx of FTs?

Malay as foreign language
- Sgpolitics.net: Yayasan Mendaki: Idea was to use foreign-language methods to teach Malay
- New Asia Republic: Foreignizing the indigineous
- Rachel Zeng: Malay to be taught as a foreign language?
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Dr Yaacob Ibrahim: “It may be timely for us to teach Malay as a foreign language”

West Coast GRC
- deadpris: My Vote Counts [Singapore General Elections 2011] [Thanks Priscilla]
- funny little world: Checking out my choices – the candidates of West Coast GRC

PAP Manisfesto
- TOC: Voters are left wondering about PAP manifesto

Bloggers say
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Are Politicians Out Of Touch: Singaporeans Will Decide
- The Kent Ridge Common: A letter to my friends on the General Elections
- New Nation: Whose coattails would you ride on?
- Jeff’s Blog: Debunking The “Your Vote Is Not Secret” Myth [Thanks jeff]
- Words of the Cze: Tail
- Political Writings: Politics 101 (or what the PAP didn’t teach you about politics) [Thanks Lee]
- Singapore Actually: Video: Nicole Seah and the NSP Team contesting at Marine Parade
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: WP: The problem with light blue
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Party political broadcast – 5 years back

The Noose
- pressrun.net: Geeky but cheeky: The Economist goes viral
- CNA: RP likely to contest Ang Mo Kio GRC
- CNA: SDP introduces 6 of its 11 candidates
- CNA: NSP releases election manifesto
- CNA: Elections Dept releases details on polling stations, nomination centres
- Today: I’m my own man: Kuan

We are against capital punishment
- Komunitikini: Yong Vui Kong: A Malaysian on Singapore’s death row [Thanks Kirsten]

Daily Discourse
- The Kent Ridge Common: Post-mortem on KRC’s UBS article

Life, the universe and everything
- mrbrown: An Open Letter to CEO Mike Edwards of Borders, from an employee of 23 Years

Selected News Stories
- Reuters: Special Report: How Singapore lost Down Under in ASX bid
- ZDNet: S’pore telcos deny creeping ‘dead zones’

April 22nd, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Opposition Parties
- Gerald Giam: Introduction as a WP candidate
- Chia Ti Lik: Socialist Front’s Statement at 15th April 2011 Press Conference – On the Front’s Withdrawal from General Election 2011
- WP: Your Vote Is Secret
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Which are the strong opposition parties this GE?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: KennethJ: Dice not falling his way
- TOC: Workers’ Party introduces first slate of candidates
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Dr James Gomez explains why PAP’s track record is poor and calls for a public debate
- New Asia Republic FB: Chee Soon Juan in secret talk with Tan Jee Say [Thanks D]

New Mandarins on the Block
- Kent Ridge Common: Why many have chosen Nicole Seah over Tin Pei Ling
- The Satay Club: Tin Pei Ling, meet Nicole Seah
- Arra’s World: Why Singaporeans are outraged by the idea of Tin Pei Ling in a GRC, but not MG Chan Chun Sing [Thanks Annabel]
- IZ Reloaded: Celebrity Deathmatch: Nicole Seah vs Tin Pei Ling [Thanks IZ]

PAP Manisfesto
- Global Voices Online: Singapore: Bloggers Criticize PAP Manifesto
- GE 2011 Media: Opinions matter But no comments please [Thanks ge2011media]

Housing
- New Asia Republic: The dilemma of housing Singaporeans [Thanks D]
- On Nation and State: Political Factcheck: Land prices are a total distraction to the housing debate
- Singapore Notes: The Toxic Assets of Mah Bow Tan
- why liddat?: Mah Bow Tan’s fear-mongering
- ST Forum: Find right balance in housing
- ST forum: Singles left to fend for themselves in HDB market

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- Sgpolitics.net: Chen Show Mao and the PAP’s politics of distraction
- De Leviathan @ SG: Personal attacks on WP’s Chen will ‘backfire’..
- Singapore Notes: Separating Pearls From Swine
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Why Singapore Needs A Multi-Party Government
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Deadlock bogeyman
- Hun Boon: How Singapore’s Election Deposits have increased over the years
- ST Forum: His view of a First World Parliament
- ST Forum: NCMP scheme has no precedent either
- ST Forum: Chen and the second political awakening
- ST Forum: Not a myth if it hasn’t happened
- ST Forum: Let’s focus on the real issues

Casinos and Gambling
- ST Forum: Singapore Pools, Turf Club adding to gambling concerns
- CNBC: Singapore On Track To Overtake Vegas As Second-Largest Gaming Center

Transportation
- ST Forum: Govt better placed to serve commuters with nationalisation

Defense / National Service
- Senang Diri: Election watch 2011: National Service

Environmental responsibility and sustainability
- Vinyarb: Green issues and the SG Elections

Bloggers say
- Empty Vessel: Thoughts before the elections
- New Nation: Vote out of belief, not fear
- Fearfully Opinionated: Which insurance salesman should you buy from?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: GE 2011 : Time for change..
- Chapter Two: Reload: The curious thing called vote [Welcome back Aaron]
- Sgpolitics.net: Yaacob Ibrahim proposes that Malay be taught as foreign language to halt decline in fluency
- Singapore Sojourn: The Ides of..May? [Thanks Roger]
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Online interview with a married female PMET in Tampines GRC
- TOC: Mother-to-be ponders on General Election
- All Things Singapore: Of the introductory dramas
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Understanding Workers Party Manisfesto
- The Satay Club: Experts predict swing against PAP
- Kent Ridge Common: NUS postpones exams on the 7th May
- New Nation: GE battleground
- East Asian Affairs: Singapore’s General Elections 2011 [Thanks Kirsten]
- Talk Rock: Nicole Seah is my favourite new election XMM!!!!!
- GE 2011 Media: MAO [Thanks ge2011media]
- ST Forum: A welcome wind of change

The Noose
- Wend Right: Editing Epic FAIL: It Ain’t Right
- pressrun.net: Straits Times ‘state newspaper’, says Associated Press
- Ravi Philemon: PAP candidates and msm – please grow up
- CNA: NSP unveils five new candidates for Marine Parade GRC
- CNA: SDP confirms it will contest 2 GRCs, 2 SMCs
- CNA: Kenneth Jeyaretnam to head Reform Party’s West Coast GRC bid
- CNA: Professionals, former civil servants among SPP volunteers
- CNA: neesoon.org iPad giveaway contest halted
- Today: Three-cornered fights still expected
- Yahoo: Which are the strong opposition parties this GE?
- Bernama: Singapore’s Opposition Fielding Qualified Candidates For General Election/A>
- The Economist: The Men In White Are Always Right [Thanks A]

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Letters from Vui Kong – The First Letter: Prison Life [Thanks Kirsten]
- NYT: Singapore and the Death Penalty

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Zoom Out: Malaysia’s Democracy is Blossoming [Thanks D]

Infoblogoramus
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: European Union Film Festival in Singapore

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

Opposition Parties
- RP: The RP’s Response to the PM’s Comments on the Channel 8 Forum
- SDP: The SDP Promise: A People-managed Community
- Yaw Shin Leong: The Battle For Aljunied GRC
- Yee Jenn Jong: The challenges of convincing electorates’ minds
- The Satay Club: Jeyaretnam and Chia lock horns online
- GE 2011 Media: Kenneth Jeyaretnam spotted on crowded bus [Thanks ge2011media]
- GE 2011 Media: Chen Shao Mao spotted on MRT train [Thanks ge2011media]

New Mandarins on the Block
- My Little Corner: The famous 27 year old girl is now parked under Marine Parade GRC
- Kent Ridge Common: New PAP Candidates by religion
- HWZ: An open letter to MG Chan Chun Sing

PAP Manisfesto
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Papsicles 3
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PAP Manifesto : More of the same..
- Geek Is The New Black: The Truth Behind The Bullshit
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: NOT That Party’s GE2011 Manifesto

Your political system
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Is the government representative?

Housing
- The Kent Ridge Common: Singaporeans can expect a future of claustrophobia
- International Business Times: Chinese buyers taking Singapore property prices to a new high

Minister Salaries
- Fearfully Opinionated: Ministerial Salaries is the PAP’s Achilles Heel

Education
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Budget for Education

Question Time with the PM
- URBANRANT: Questions I would ask the Prime Minister

Lim Boon Heng steps down crying
- Sg Truth: Lim Boon Heng was surprise to be dropped

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- TOC: GE 2011 – going down the sewers already?
- TOC: When a son of the land returns
- Ravi Philemon: George Yeo’s response on my comment that it is unfair to ask for Workers’ Party’s track record
- Singabloodypore: GRC’s Drawn – Singapore Elections Called – Game Over
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Example of what’s rotten with the GRC system
- Blogging for Myself: Demolishing Dr. Chee Soon Juan?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Analysts: personal attacks on Chen may backfire
- My Singapore News: A bad feeling
- The Satay Club: Let the mudslinging begin
- why liddat: letter rebutting Indranee Rajah (unpublished)
- WP: Letter to ST Forum from Ms Sylvia Lim
- ST Forum: Not hard to understand why he returned

Bloggers say
- nofearSingapore: Dr.T’s view of Singapore General Elections
- The Gigamole Diaries: Election fever!
- Nomadism: if only we can vote like the way we choose the search engine and browsers we use
- Singapore Notes: Legacy Of SM Goh
- Article 14: Singapore GE 2011: 7 May
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Evaluating Our Political Candidates: Time To Look Beyond Age
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Sarawak’s lesson for the PAP
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: GE : 7 May 2011
- Ravi Philemon: Jeannette for Mountbatten
- Singapore Actually: Singapore Elections: Get Ready to Vote on May 7th
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Things To Do For The General Elections
- Think For Me, Singapore: Why I won’t vote for the ruling party
- Flying Low: Pull up your socks
- New Nation: Do youths care about politics? Should they?
- The Satay Club: PAP’S election line up confirmed
- Facebook Group: We Want All Seats To Be Contested In The GE [Thanks Ruiqiang]
- GE 2011 Media: Apathetic Singaporean views on Singapore Election 2011 [Vid] [Thanks ge2011media]

The Noose
- CNA: Singapore General Election set for May 7
- CNA: WP confirms it will contest 4 GRCs, 4 SMCs
- CNA: PAP announces election line-up
- CNA: Former Reform Party vice-chairman may rejoin party
- NYT: In Singapore, the Party in Power Offers New Faces
- Yahoo: Singapore General Elections 2011 Guide

April 20th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Thoughts of a Opposition Party Candidate – A Watershed Election?
- Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss Facebook: My Vission for Mountbatten [Thanks Stanley]
- Observing Singapore Elections 2011: Common Sense Prevailing Within The Opposition
- Yee Jenn Jong: Probe opposition candidates’ motivation? Sure! How about PAP’s candidates?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: PAP targets Workers’ Party star Chen: PAP jittery?
- TOC: Dr Chee under virtual house arrest during elections?
- TOC: Chen Show Mao – changing clientele
- Jaslyn Go’s Blog: SDP members talk about Yuhua walkabout
- The Satay Club: Andrew Kuan: I will do what is right and appropriate
- Yahoo: Rooting for the ‘invisible poor’: WP’s Angela Oon [Thanks Stanley]
- Youtube DiarySG: PAP runs into NSP at Moulmein-Kallang GRC (14 Mar 2011) [Thanks Stanley]
- Today: RP chief cannot comprehend ‘why NSP cannot return the favour’

New Mandarins on the Block
- TOC: TOC Editorial: Why the double standards, Dr Ng?
- Kent Ridge Common: On the Tin Pei Ling-Sarah Palin Comparison
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: “The Poor” are the new black
- flaneurose: Why the PAP is finding it difficult to attract candidates from the private sector
- Singapore Election Watch: Wake up Chan Chun Sing!
- Military Life: If this is the oratorical ability of our SAF ex-Chief of Army, we’ll probably scr*wed [Thanks panzergrenadier]
- URBANRANT: His body language and tone tells us more of him than his words.
- Javert’s World: PAP newbies by PM Lee
- TOC: Did Tin Pei Ling contravene elections rule?
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Storm in a Tin(Pei Ling) and the Return of the King(maker)

PAP Manisfesto
- The Satay Club: What exactly are the PAP’s policies?
- Blogging for Myself: The PAP manifesto: So you are clueless
- Alvinology: Word clouds: PAP manifesto vs WP manifesto
- mrbrown: PAP Party Manifesto loves your feedback

Your political system
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Fallacy of the GRCs
- Politics: PM Lee on 2-Party System in Singapore
- Blogging for Myself: Inside Cabinet… it’s no wayang

NMPs & NCMPs
- Bryan Ti Facebook: Electoral System: Will People Vote for NCMP-Hopefuls? [Thanks Stanley]

Housing
- Musings From the Lion City: How Not To Do It
- Bryan Ti Facebook: Sylvia Lim (WP) : “Of course we can discuss issues…” [Thanks Stanely]

Immigration
- TOC: Take responsibility, we are a meritocratic society

Healthcare
- ST Forum: Why is medical cost a top reason for debt woes?

Question Time with the PM
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Electing movers of pleas
- New Asia Republic: Question Time with Prime Minister (Mandarin) – Part 4 of 4

Bloggers say
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: A timely reminder: Pro-PAP or pro-Opposition, we are all pro-Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: PAP Servant leaders: Fact or fiction?
- Sgpolitics.net: Under PAP, Singapore has developed a rent-seeking economy
- Singapore Election Watch: What The PAP Does Not Want you to know
- The Mind Game: Servants, Masters and Governance
- De Leviathan @ SG: The Million Dollar Salary Syndrome – Why PAP Could Not Work Like “a Bolt of Lightning” Anymore?
- Political Writings: Hating The PAP: Part I, Part II [Thanks lee]
- Singapore Notes: A Day In The Life
- My Singapore News: Singaporean FT no good, foreign FTs betterer
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Survey – LKY to contest in the general election 2011
- Singapore Dino: How do you certify a minority candidate?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Making his dream in Singapore

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Second Chances statement on the cases of Khor Soon Lee and Cheong Chun Yin
- The Death Penalty in Singapore: SADPC – Statement regarding Khor Soon Lee’s appeal and an appeal for Cheong Chun Yin‏

Daily Discourse
- innersanctum: reflections
- Loh and Behold: Chope, chope means “Fuck off” [Thanks Annabel]
- Kent Ridge Common: Another View on the Yale-NUS College

Life, the universe and everything
- Temasek Hedge: S-chips response to SGX’s 31 May deadline: “Yawn”
- Singapore Urban Explorers: Raffles Lighthouse
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Another viral marketing campaign gone horribly wrong

Selected News Stories
- Asian Sentinel: Numbers Oddity in S’pore
- Innovation magazine: ENTREPRENEURSHIP SPECIAL: Made-in-Singapore Entrepreneurs
- AFP: New Malaysian metropolis taking shape near Singapore
- Cracked.com: The 6 Most Ridiculous Things Ever Taxed [Thanks Estee]

April 19th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Singapore Alternatives: In the Name of Opposition Harmony..
- Singapore 2025: The Workers’ Party: Rational, Responsible, Respectable
- The Satay Club: Dr Chee: Internet has changed politics in Singapore
- The Satay Club: Angela Oon: Singapore’s ‘underclass’ is growing
- The Satay Club: Another ‘star catch’ for the Worker’s Party?
- Gerald Giam: Visiting residents on Pulau Ubin
- TOC: “Our chances are very good”: Chiam
- TOC: NSP gives way to WP in interest of “opposition harmony”
- New Nation: Q&A with Jeanette Chong-Aruldoss
- Jacob 69er: {Video} Chee Soon Juan delivers SDP’s election message in Hokkien
- Mindblogging Stuff: For NSP’s Goh Meng Seng
- CNA: SDP to contest in three constituencies
- CNA: Reform Party gives way in two SMCs, one GRC
- CNA: SPP eyes Ang Mo Kio GRC
- CNA: Socialist Front not taking part in General Election

New Mandarins on the Block
- TOC: PAP’s final batch – not the best for last
- Very Fine Commentary: Tin Pei Ling: New blood or bad blood?
- Very Fine Commentary: Party responsibly: Renewal in the PAP
- The Satay Club: Private sector talent afraid of ‘risking failure’?
- The Satay Club: Could Tan Chuan-Jin be our next Prime Minister
- Observing Singapore Elections 2011: Humility Goes A Long Way In Winning Over The Electorate…
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Potential Ministers Or Pigs in Pokes?***
- Too Many Thoughts: Okay, look:
- Sg Truth: Why So Few Private Sector Talents Joining the PAP?
- pressrun.net: Tin Pei Ling: Is she a youth?
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Singapore General Elections 2011: Tin Pei Ling Responds
- Singapore M.D.: Doctors and Politics II (Local)
- My Sketchbook: PAP finding talent in private sector
- My Sketchbook: The legendary tea session

PAP Manisfesto
- Molitics: The Unauthorized Annotated PAP Manifesto
- Blogging for Myself: The PAP manifesto
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Saying one thing but meaning another.
- Alternative Voice for Singaporeans: Create opportunities for higher incomes for all. Is it possible with our current model?
- TOC: PAP 2006 election manifesto promise – success or failure?
- TOC: PAP manifesto video slammed by viewers
- CNA: SDA comments on PAP’s manifesto
- CNA: Reform Party responds to PAP’s manifesto

NMPs & NCMPs
- nofearSingapore: NCMP system: Suggestions for improving it [Thanks Doc]
- guanyinmiao’s musings: In Retrospect: Miss Sylvia Lim And The NCMP Scheme
- For Want of a Better Title: NCMPs and NMPs
- ST Forum: Having NCMPs not the same as having elected opposition MPs

Housing
- Singapore Alternatives: Cheaper housing key to securing future
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Papsicles 2
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Heart of the housing issue : Cost of Land…
- TOC: Are Mah Bow Tan’s housing policies responsible?
- TOC: HDB – Leong Sze Hian responds to Mah Bow Tan
- TOC: Put Mah Bow Tan on “live” TV
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: What are in our reserves? A revisit
- Singapore Notes: About Time To Come Clean
- ST Forum: Two questions on preventing enclaves

Immigration
- Singapore Notes: Do As He Says, Not As He Does
- Kaffein-nated: A mystery unto itself – advice to young readers
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Top 10 reasons why Singapore is the BEST place to work in for foreign workers

Cost of Living
- TOC: Another toothless tiger to deal with cost of living
- TOC: Govt’s preschool subsidy only for NTUC and PCF kindergartens?
- ST Forum: Focus on oil firms, not hawkers

Your political system
- Very Fine Commentary: Unchecked and unbalanced: Singapore’s Parliament
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Trust, Governance and Democracy

Lim Boon Heng steps down crying
- Sgpolitics.net: Why cry over spilt milk?

Transportation
- My Little Corner: What’s wrong with nationalising the MRT operations?

Question Time with the PM
- Ravi Philemon: Did the Prime Minister answer my questions? Nah!
- New Asia Republic: Question Time with Prime Minister (Mandarin) – Part [1] [2] [3]

Bloggers say
- New Nation: The battle for Mountbatten could be the closest of all
- New Nation: Q&A with Lim Biow Chuan
- Very Fine Commentary: Governing Singapore: Disconnected leaders and cautious cynics
- Yee Jenn Jong: Stop playing the “Fear-of-failure” card
- Flying Low: Things that matter to me
- flaneurose: Hard truths you won’t read about elsewhere, Part V
- Politics: WP: Freedom of Info
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Pork Barrel Politics in Singapore by the PAP
- Abdillah Zamzuri: What Your Ministers Are Really Saying!
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Online Interview with a Tampines GRC Gen Y Married Voter
- New Nation: Confessions of the Virgin Voters
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Survey – Voting in general election 2011 – interim results
- Kent Ridge Common: Second Thoughts on SG Elections 2011
- the mrbrown show: one party (music video)
- catherinelim.sg: A Little Tale
- The Star: No longer of one mind
- Yahoo: ‘‘Orchid Evolution’ sweeping through S’pore’
- ST Forum: Pragmatism shouldn’t be only consideration

Singapore Coloring
- Very Fine Commentary: Racing ahead, going nowhere

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Kent Ridge Common: Singapore does NOT have Third World Living Standards

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Patient Satisfaction Surveys
- Sgpolitics.net: Press Censorship on public health issue

Daily Discourse
- The Kent Ridge Common: Hiring “Native” Speakers to Teach English
- Sgpolitics.net: Dr Lim Hock Siew
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Will The Ramifications Of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Be Forgotten By ASEAN?
- Vinyarb: The Price of Success
- pressrun.net: US State Department report on Singapore
- TOC: Derogatory term used by ST to describe deaf people

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 16-23 Apr

Life, the universe and everything
- Social Media and Digital Marketing in Singapore: Yet Another Fake Social Media Campaign In Singapore

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

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Down-to-Earth Counsel to the Opposition
- The Satay Club: Opposition parites need to sort out their differences, fast
- The Satay Club: Chiam: Why I am leaving Potong Pasir
- The Satay Club: Pritam Singh: GRC system should be abolished
- TOC: NSP unveils new candidates, challenges Mah to debate
- Observing Singapore Elections 2011: Are you sincere Mr Harminder Pal Singh???
- SDP: The SDP Promise – our MPs’ pledge
- SDP: Friday Night Pow-wow
- ST Forum: What First World Parliament means: Sylvia
- ST Forum: Chen has done his share for Singapore
- ST Forum: About Chen: WP rebuts Forum writer
- Yahoo: NSP’s new faces share their plans for Singapore

New Mandarins on the Block
- TOC: PAP’s Janil Puthucheary: “I did not do NS… those are the facts”
- Sgpolitics.net: Its not just about Tin Pei Ling herself, but about the flaws in our political system
- The Temasek Review: Marine Parade grassroots unhappy with Tin Pei Ling’s candidacy
- Nomadism: Cringing at Tin Pei Ling’s Video
- My Singapore News: 4 more to go?

Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minister Mah attacks WP’s affordable housing plan..

Immigration
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Message from HK-born naturalised citizen to local Singaporeans: “Don’t hate us!”

Lim Boon Heng steps down crying
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: A Crying Shame [Thanks lee]

Bloggers say
- TOC: ‘PAP is not Singapore, PAP renewal is not Singapore renewal, and Parliament is not a feedback channel
- My Little Corner: Why the focus on economy growth?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Returning to the past
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Lim Hwee Hua stopped by heckler: PAP losing touch?
- Singapore Notes: Pork Barrel Politics Not Halal
- flaneurose: Hard truths you won’t read about elsewhere, Part IV
- Yahoo: ‘Do we want powerless MPs in Parliament?’
- CNA: Candidates in contested wards can address supporters at Nomination Centres

YOG
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Youth Olympic Games: Be Honest About The Negatives
- Today Voices: Candidly admit mistakes of YOG

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Kent Ridge Common: UBS: Singapore has third world living standards

Daily Discourse
- Yee Jenn Jong: Singapore needs to break away from risk averse culture to succeed in the 21st century
- Laïcité: The burka ban part 4: The perils of multiculturalism

Life, the universe and everything
- pressrun.net: Singapore dollar allowed to rise to curb inflation

Selected News Stories
- East Asia Forum: Australia’s curious courtship of the Singapore Exchange
- Tempointeraktif.com: Steel Dumping Investigation Complete
- Ars Technica: Do “e-petitions” change government? Germany’s experiment

April 15th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- The Satay Club: Wijeysingha: An ‘established’ man taking a different path
- My Singapore News: Worker’s Party wants to abolish PA
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party Walkabout at West Coast GRC this week
- CNA: Opposition Parties Locked In Tussle In At Least 8 Constituencies

New Mandarins on the Block
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why the Tin Pei Ling and Chen Shao Mao swap is a failed comparison
- The Satay Club: A Tale of Two ‘New Citizens’
- TOC: Thinking Aloud – The Tin Pei Ling Issue

Housing
- TOC: HDB Upgrading – Holding Voters To Ransom
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why PAP needs the upgrading crutch….

Lim Boon Heng steps down crying
- Sgpolitics.net: Don’t just cry, Minister Lim — Do something about it

Question Time with the PM
- TOC: Question Time, but with no answers
- funny little world: Getting heard in Singapore – Can Anot?
- Political Writings: PAP’s Economic Theory: Raise Taxes To Deal With Economic Slowdown!
- The Satay Club: PM’S questions: More of the same excuses
- Singapore Notes: The Indians Are Coming! The Indians Are Coming!
- Prata Politics: PM Claimes No GST Hike after GE
- Vinyarb: Question Time with the Prime Minister – Quick Thoughts
- EastCoastLife: Question Time With PM Lee Hsien Loong – EastCoastLife’s Question
- Today: Workers’ Party defends manifesto

Bloggers say
- Sam’s Thoughts: Yeo! Guat The Hell Is Happening To Hougang-Aljunied? Curious CASE Indeed
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Democracy big and small
- flaneurose: Hard truths you won’t read about elsewhere, Part III
- Figuring how faith fits into this world, & other stuff: State and Welfare – A Perspective from the Bible?
- Musings From the Lion City: PAP’s Private Sector Problem
- Singapore Election Watch: PAP let Aljunied GRC down
- Big Talk Singapore: Singapore election system version 2.0
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Online interview with a 26-year-old female voter
- mrbrown: one party (music video)

There’s a new GE site in town! Quote:

GE 2011 Media (www.ge2011media.com) is a place where you can share photos and videos of Singapore’s 2011 General Election.

Start contributing to the Singapore Election online community!

Lots of vids and photos (a “Tin Pei Ling full frontal” *gasp*) under different party categories. So when can we see all the fun stuff… like this
source: EDMW
;-)

The Gospel of Harry
-The Satay Club: Lee Kuan Yew in about-turn on Malay integration?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: Why is Contact Singapore encouraging Singapore companies to recruit foreigners?

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: A Re-trial For Cheong Chun Yin
- LIANAIN FILMS: Justice For Chun Yin?

Daily Discourse
- Laïcité: The burka ban part 3: The problem with cultural relativism
- New Nation: Still safe to read, no ban on Alan Shadrake’s book – yet
- pressrun.net: SPH staff costs S$90.2 m, circulation revenue S$50.3 m

Life, the universe and everything
- Wild Shores of Singapore: A sneak peek at Singapore’s new natural history museum!
- The Long and Winding Road: A visit to the lighthouse on Singapore’s One Tree Island
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: SBS Transit IRIS iPhone App

Selected News Stories
- The Interpreter: Singapore & Oz: Round Two
- Look At Vietnam: It’s cheap and easy to go studying in Singapore, but
- WSJ: Yes to Moustaches, No to Headscarves [Thanks esteejl]

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

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Worker’s Party Manifesto [Thanks A]
- Sgpolitics.net: In the SDP, politics is
- The Temasek Review: Is SDP Leading the Way Again by Fielding Singapore First Openly Gay Candidate? [Thanks Willy]
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Virtual ‘Shadow’ Government
- ST Blogs: What Low Thia Khiang can learn from Lee Kuan Yew
- Today: New central executive committee member for RP
- CNA: Independent candidate Andrew Kuan’s manifesto

PAP calls to scrutinise opposition candidates
- TOC: Candidate selection process – should we care?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Scrutinize opposition candidates: why will fall on deaf ears
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The General Elections: The Need For Proactive Outreaches By New Candidates

New Mandarins on the Block
- My Very Own Glob: How to solve the Tin Peiling issue
- TOC: Helping the poor – too much money?

Housing
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Yung Kuang & Tao Ching Estate (Jurong GRC)
- TOC: HDB – policies that are cruel?

Transportation
- TOC: An Open Letter to Minister of Transport Raymond Lim

Cost of living
- Singapore Election Watch: Dairy to Singapore’s Cost of Living – Post GE2006

Lim Boon Heng steps down crying
- TOC: The significance of Lim Boon Heng’s tears
- The Satay Club: Why is Lim Boon Heng Crying?
- Singapore Notes: Shedding Tears For Singapore
- Icarus Flew Too High: Spare us your sob stories, Mr Lim
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Emotional Hot Seat
- R3LOAD.NET: Lim Boon Heng breaks down when asked about Justin Bieber [Thanks IZ]

Question Time with the PM
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: Confessions of an unconvinced voter
- pressrun.net: PM says PAP would be in trouble if..
- The Owl: Lee Hsien Loong And The Cardboard NCMPs
- Javert’s World: The $3M man.
- New Asia Republic: Question Time with the Prime Minister

Bloggers say
- TOC: Why Singapore needs more opposition MPs
- For Want of a Better Title: On Carrots and Upgrading
- In the Beginning was the Logos: Why Singapore Ought to Consider Becoming a British Protectorate
- New Nation: Vote for the opposition: PAP will not lose
- Singapore Actually: A 2 Party System would be Better, Just in Terms of Basic Economics
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP: The importance of the 67% mark
- flaneurose: Hard truths you won’t read about elsewhere, Part II
- The Temasek Review: There isn’t a lack of talent, only, a lack of desire
- The Enquirer: Will elections fall on our exam week?
- ST Forum: PAP has blurred line between State and party
- ST Bog: Six degrees of ministerial pay? [Thanks A]
- Yahoo: Concerns over foreign workers in Aljunied GRC

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Just One Person
- My Singapura: un-published letter to Straits Times

Daily Discourse
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Why ask what was spent when glory came from 12,498 sandwiches served?
- Laïcité: The burka ban part 2: Tolerance of religion or tolerance of oppression?
- The Temasek Review: Oil-indexed water price soon?

Life, the universe and everything
- SGEntrepreneurs: Ideas.Inc Business Challenge 2011 Top 15 To Receive USD 12K

Selected News Stories
- Asia Sentinel: Singapore: Buying Good Press
- Free Malaysia Today: Expect more crashes on the Net
- Vodafone UK Youtube: The Evolution of Mobile

April 13th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP’s political and electoral strategy
- The Satay Club: Old warhorse pulls another rabbit out of his hat
- Political Writings: CST’s Legacy [Thanke Lee]
- The Kent Ridge Common: SDP challenges Dr. Vivian to open debate
- TOC: The PAP must yield to the people – Chee Soon Juan
- My Singapore News: What a loaded question?

New Mandarins on the Block
- Air Conditioned Nation: 4G Leaders and the Coming Discontinuity [Thanks George]
- Singapore Short Stories: PAP candidates… not as good as before (my thoughts)
- The Temasek Review: What Siew Kum Hong should reflect upon [Thanks A]
- mrbrown: New PAP candidate wants to tackle Singapore’s carpark problems

Bloggers say
- TOC: PAP ministers failing to relate cause and effect
- Empty Vessel: My Common-Sense Manifesto
- Icarus Flew Too High: The PAP’s broken system: The issue of talent
- De Leviathan @ SG: Election Watch Part XI – Has PAP Started to Contradict and Disagree in this Match?
- Observing Singapore Elections 2011: DPM Wong Denounced Workers’ Party’s Manifesto
- flaneurose: Hard truths you won’t read about elsewhere, Part I
- SpotlightOnSingapore: No groupthink within PAP: burying head in sand?
- Blogging for Myself: I had voted for him: Lim Boon Heng
- The Satay Club: Lee Kuan Yew can preserve his legacy by stepping down
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Auntie Lucia’s very own manifesto
- Singapore Election Watch: PAP Vivian Balakrishnan’s Track record
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Online interview with a Tampines GRC voter
- The Temasek Review: A refute to PM Lee claim that a two party system is “unworkable”
- SG. Quitters: MIW arriving in Heaven with ill-gotten wealth. [Thanks Cheong]
- Today Voices: Two views on role of Opposition

Question Time with the PM
- TOC: A time for reckoning – an open letter to PM Lee
- Vinyarb: Question Time with the Prime Minister
- The Owl: Lee Hsien Loong’s Answer to TOC’s Open Letter
- Not In My Name Facebook: My questions for the Prime Minister

My question to the PM is: Why you never gazette me?

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Court of Appeal reserves judgment on Alan Shadrake
- Jacob 69er: Human Rights Watch: Alan Shadrake has done a service to Singapore by pointing out the failings in its application of justice

Re education
- The Mind Game: The disappearing Yale-NUS article

Your National Service
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Some thoughts about NS

Daily Discourse
- Freak Thoughts: Why I will not donate to Children’s Cancer Foundation
- Singapore Notes: Elites At The Party
- Laïcité: The burka ban part 1: Symbolism and meaning
- funny little world: MERDE! You WILL be liberated!

Life, the universe and everything
- Looking for Lobangs: How to get free drinks in Singapore [Thanks Guyi]
- SGEntrepreneurs: Pay For Your Singapore Airlines Tickets With PayPal

Infoblogoramus
- Support Site for The Unemployed: 2nd Networking Session on Entrepreneurship on 15 April (Fri)

Selected News Stories
- Independent: Singapore’s new resorts stealing all the thunder
- Bloomberg: Singapore to Revalue Currency or Steepen Trading Band, Survey Shows
- AFP: Mugabe’s wife in Singapore for medical care
- Reuters: World Bank urges new thinking to tackle conflicts and violence [Thanks mackinder]
- Engadget: HTC Desire S review
- Search Engine Land: Google Has Stopped Street View Photography In Germany

April 12th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Gerald Giam: WP Manifesto launch speech
- Yaw Shin Leong: Towards A First World Parliament
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: National Service- by guest spot author Gordon Lee.
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Solid but with holes: the Workers’ Party manifesto
- Observing Singapore Elections 2011: What is wrong with Reform Party???
- Blogging for Myself: The SDP contesting here
- TOC: NSP may contest up to five GRCs in this elections
- TOC: Chiam’s GRC team taking shape
- TOC: WP unveils manifesto and campaign slogan for GE
- TOC: SDP Promise – a contract between party and constituents
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party: NSP deliberately sought 3-cornered fights
- New Asia Republic: LTK: I know what’s wrong with Opposition
- New Asia Republic: “He opened my window to politics” – Lina Luo
- New Asia Republic: Worker’s Party launches Manifesto (09/04/2011) [pics]
- New Asia Republic: The SDP Promise (09/04/2011) [pics]
- New Asia Republic: SPP Walkabout (10/04/2011) [pics]
- CNA: Reform Party in talks to share candidates with other opposition parties
- Today: Chiam’s wish of contesting in a GRC coming true

A message from Donaldson Tan, editor of New Asia Republic [Thanks Donaldson]

In view of General Election 2011, New Asia Republic hereby releases all our photographs published in the photo album section of our Facebook Page to the blogging community under the Creative Commons license, with exception of the photo albums listed in the Exemption List. [Click here for more information]

New Mandarins on the Block
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why we ought to be disappointed with Lim Hwee Hua’s comments: An Anthology of Criticisms against Tin Pei Ling
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PR Pros: The PAP needs yr help
- onesingaporean: Ms Lim, Mr Lim, Mr Yeo, please keep in touch
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Rise above gender issue: barking up wrong tree
- The Rot Within: Excuses
- The Star: ‘High-flyers shy away when the money is good’
- ST Forum: Team walkovers

Bloggers say
- Ravi Philemon: Question Time with the Prime Minister
- TOC: What has become of the PAP?
- Sam’s thoughts: What on Earth is the Ground?
- only blue, only blue: Government: A more complicated concept than you think
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Politically Apathetic Malays, True?
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Voter’s Cry: Have we lost our SOUL? Quality of Life Has Deteriorated
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Why Opposition MPs Are Value-For-Your-Money [Thanks George]
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Addressing the Undercurrents in Singapore Politics
- The Temasek Review: Two Party Systems, Talent, and lots of Hard Truths
- Singapore Notes: Sour Grapes
- Singapore Notes: Insurance Definitely Required
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Internet And Social Media: What Minister George Yeo Has Overlooked
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Are you ready for change?
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: My Daddy Got Pension. Suck it Lesser mortals!
- Singapore Dino: Sloppy reporting by CNA and ST on SDP
- My sketchbook: The “insurance policy” for Singapore

We are against capital punishment
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Struggling to come alive: Singapore’s anti-death penalty campaign
- funny little world: A Letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
- TOC: Sister of death row inmate – “Are you helping good people or bad people?”
- TOC: To President S R Nathan: I plead with you to show mercy and grant Yong a reprieve
- Justice for Chun Yin Facebook: Info [Thanks Kirsten]

Temasek Review Announces Shut Down
- Words of the Cze: Cassius
- pressrun.net: Temasek Review: Not quite HuffPo, but..

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Live. Life.: Why I am a PR and still care about Singapore
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Grassroots Involvement Is Only A Means To An End

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- My Little Corner: Another reminder why our infrastructure cannot support the population

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

S’poreans, a dying breed
- New Asia Republic: On Fertility and Defence

Singapore Coloring
- expressing the unexpressed: We are not a threat.

Re education
- The Kent Ridge Common: Comparing Yale in NUS and Cornell in Qatar

Your National Service
- Senang Diri: Maid in Singapore: The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) maid saga reviewed

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: YOG: Setting Singaporeans ablaze
- New Nation: Who values online privacy anymore?
- The Rot Within: MTI loses patience
- pressrun.net: Singapore Exchange partners criticize Australia
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: Society Misconception to the Arts

Selected News Stories
- Following the Sunrise: Singapore: It is better to be feared than loved
- The Philippines Star: We are being left behind [Thanks Willy]
- SMAH: If Lee can, you, too, should grab a share [Thanks George]
- China Daily: Wen emphasizes political reform [Thanks Estee]

April 11th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Singapore General Election 2011
Opposition Parties
- Sgpolitics.net: WP’s electoral strategy
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: WP: Team A- or playing a subtle game
- I’m getting personal: The SDP Promise
- New Asia Republic: 23-yr-old may join SPP’s TP-Bishan Team
- The Reform Party: The Reform Party Unveils New Leadership and Logo
- Live. Life: An Open Letter to Opposition parties in Singapore
- Today Voices: SDP takes issue with YOG spending

New Mandarins on the Block
- New Nation: PM Lee justifies the PAP’s weak candidate
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Tin Pei Ling – Personal Folly or Gamble Gone Wrong?
- My Very Own Glob: I don’t want Tin Pei Ling
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Singapore General Elections 2011: Tin Pei Ling Saga
- The Kent Ridge Common: Dr.Intan, PAP’s first Malay Female Candidate: Sensible and Sincere
- CNA: PAP unveils 6th batch of new candidates

Bloggers say
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Unique Minister Mentor
- TOC: MM Lee on two-party system and opposition
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Papsicles 1
- Fearfully Opinionated: The PAP’s ideology is that they don’t believe in ideologies…or don’t they?
- The Mind Game: Why opposition draws private sector talent
- Singapore Life and Times: On Second Thoughts
- SG. Quitters: Open Letter To SM Goh Chok Tong On His Comments On Farmers.
- My Thoughts: GE2011 Conspiracy Theories
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Throwing off the GerrymandeRed Constituency (GRC) yoke as independents
- Political Writings: Why Opposition Candidates Must Be Of a Higher Standard Than PAP MP’s [Thanks L]
- TOC: George Yeo on social media and the elections
- ST Forum: Don’t equate interests of party with that of nation
- tstracyc Youtube: Apathetic Singaporean views on singapore election 2011 [Thanks Foo]

Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum
- TOC: Multi-party democracy needed in Singapore
- Singapore Life and Times: The 10 Reasons
- Observing Singapore Elections 2011: The Prime Minister’s In Denial…
- Vinyarb: Is PAP and Government one and the same? [Thanks Bryan]
- New Asia Republic: PM Lee lacks Yin-Yang Harmony at KRMF
- Piji Tailai: PM Lee, are you Yin-Yang imbalance? [Thanks pijitailai]
- ST Forum: A strong opposition will draw talent
- ST Forum: A single party can’t represent all views

CNA Political Forum on Singapore’s Future
- Javert’s World: GST

Temasek Review Announces Shut Down
- Temasek Review: A short statement on The Temasek Review’s planned closure
- New Asia Republic: The Brutus that was the Temasek Review
- FTP: Socio-political website to shut down

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- TOC: Non-subsidised drugs: Secret?

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: Singaporeans – YOU can help to save lives.

Re education
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Where’s Your Creativity?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Teaching Scholars’ Misconduct: Consequences And Considerations

Daily Discourse
- TOC: LTA overlooks Nuovo residents’ concerns on NSE
- Singapore Notes: Greed Is Good, For Some Guys

Life, the universe and everything
- Bernard Leong: Why Exits are Important (as a metric for Start-ups)
- Singapore M.D.: World Health Day 2011
- The Long and Winding Road: The end of the line?

Infoblogoramus
- Facebook Event: 90 minutes Philosophy Workshop: Introduction to Reasoning

Selected News Stories
- Harvard Business Review: In Singapore, a Failure to Fail
- Guardian: Simple eye grown from stem cells
- Bloomberg: HTC Market Value Passes Nokia as Smartphones ‘Change Mindsets’
- Google Mobile Blog: See your location history dashboard and more with Google Maps 5.3 for Android
- Legit Review: Seagate GoFlex Slim 320GB USB 3.0 Hard Drive Review [World's thinnest external hdd]

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