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Archive for May, 2011

Daily SG: 31 May 2011

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Sgpolitics: High ministerial salaries
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Yeo Guat Kwang – PAP MP with 64 other jobs
- A Singaporean says: Who’s the highest paid person in this chain?
- Yours Truly Singapore: If our economy ever falters, that is the end of Singapore
- TOC: Dignified pay & national direction needed

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Top Sacred Cows for our PM to Consider Slaying
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Bad idea to lease void decks to MPs
- Convex Set: We the Citizens: A Call for the Articulation of a Clear National Direction
- TOC: Excuse me, did the Prime Minister just say sorry?

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Slower Economic growth = Lower starting pay for Singaporeans?
- Yee Jenn Jong: ‘Slower growth means fewer job opportunities’ – reflections of comments by Minister Khaw
- Loh and Behold: There You Go Again [Thanks Annabel]
- Piji Tailai: So Rich yet So Poor

Presidential Election
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: Running dogs of Tan Cheng Bock.
- Singapore Sojourn: Presidential Ambitions [Thanks Roger]

Housing
- TOC: Cleaning up after Mr Mah
- Food fuels the talk: Mr Khaw Boon Wan: your HDB housing ramp up…
- My Singapore News: How long will the Ponzi Scheme last?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Blogging for Myself: Lui Tuck Yew riding in public transport
- Mr Wang Says So: Lui on the Train – Much Ado About Nothing

Minimum Wage
- TOC: Reviving the Minimum Wage Debate (Part 2)

Fixing the Opposition
- Chemical Generation Singapore: NSP at the Crossroads

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Anti Death Penalty Activists must be honest

Save the World’s Saddest Dolphins
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: RWS: Appeal to their superstitious nature

Daily Discourse
- catherinelim.sg: Supplement To May 17 Commentary ‘The GE 2011 Political Demise Of Lee Kuan Yew: A Supreme Irony’
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Consequence of hire-fire policies: Unhappiest Workers in the World
- Article 14: More transparency needed in our Town Councils
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee to PAP MPs: Declare to me your business interests for your own ‘protection’
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: How much money are Singaporeans gambling away at the casinos?
- funny little world: Not all activists are angry (all the time)…
- The Jelly Farm: WHY SINGAPORE TV IS DEAD… [Thanks Bernard]

Life, the universe and everything
- Vicky’s Writings: The Lion King Musical – Singapore Review
- Yaw Shin Leong: War Hero in Hougang
- Singapore Urban Explorers: The Pineapple Express

Stuff
- WSJ: Iran Vows to Unplug Internet
- PhysOrg: Stinky feet could pave the way for better ways to stop mosquitoes

Daily SG: 30 May 2011

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- TOC: Cynicism – PAP’s main battle
- The Kent Ridge Common: Law Professor Kevin YL Tan on Elections 2011
- Words of the Cze: What Is To Be Done
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: The 2011 parliament according to my model
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: How and when did you decide? Part 4
- The Satay Club: MORE SACRED COWS TO SLAUGHTER
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore: deregulating politics but what about the economy?
- Gerald Giam: NUSS Post-General Election Dialogue
- The Temasek Review: Parkway Parade Starbucks awashed in sea of BLACK as netizens make a point
- Think Happiness: Policing & Magistrate’s Complaints
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Finally PM is starting to hear us..
- just rambling: The return of political cartoons
- TOC: You’re invited to “Post-Election Transformation Series”
- Yahoo: ‘Let’s play fair at the grassroots level’
- The Star: Facebooking for 2016 polls
- Al Jazeera: Social media challenges Singapore’s rulers

Presidential Election
- Dr Tan Cheng Bock: Singapore is polarised but Dr Tan can heal the rift
- Mr Wang Says So: The Presidential Elections
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Tan Cheng Bock for PRESIDENT
- TOC: Picking up where Ong Teng Cheong left off
- TOC: Vote for an independent-minded President
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: The Presidency: Better, The Devil You Know…? [Thanks yl]
- Sgpolitics: Dr Tan Cheng Bock supported 1987 arrest of “Marxist conspirators”
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Dr Tan Cheng Bock may run for President: go for it!
- The Temasek Review: Mr Inderjit Singh, why is it “awkward” for Mr Tan Cheng Bock to run for President?
- Think Happiness: Open Letter to Presidential hopeful Tan Cheng Bock
- Anonymous_X: Dr Tan Cheng Bock will be the next President, thanks to Lim Boon Heng & Inderjit Singh… [Thanks wacky_atz]
- The Satay Club: SINGAPORE GEARS UP FOR ANOTHER ELECTION

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP needs a public communications SWAT team
- The Satay Club: DR LIM WEE KIAK APOLOGISES FOR “INAPPROPRIATE” REMARKS

Housing
- Singapore Notes: Solving The Housing Problem
- CNBC: Singapore’s Property Market Headed Towards a Perfect Storm?

Fixing the Opposition
- ST Forum: NSP responds to query on fund-raising method

Your National Service
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Musings On Conscription And National Service

Re education
- Monica Lim FB: Letter to Heng Swee Keat

We are against capital punishment
- Rachel Zeng: Singapore: Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Against Government Critic
- Rachel Zeng: Joint statement by Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign (SADPC) and Think Centre on Alan Shadrake’s 6 weeks jail term
- Guardian: Author loses appeal against Singapore conviction

Save the World’s Saddest Dolphins
- World’s Saddest Dolphons: The Campaign
- TOC: The Dolphin Project makes proposal to RWS over dolphins
- funny little world: Smiling through the pain.
- my blog my life: Free the dolphins
- miss ene and the boy: The world’s saddest dolphins
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Freeing Flipper: Try govmin
- TOC: ACRES needs your help to “Save the World’s Saddest Dolphins”
- Youtube: Save the World’s Saddest Dolphins – ACRES needs your help (27 May 2011)
- SMH: Push to free ‘world’s saddest dolphins’ from Singapore theme park

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Singapore diplomacy’s walk on the wild side
- Sgpolitics: How PAP uses taxpayer-funded grassroots for political gain
- A Singaporean says: Why do we (still) need MPs to write letters? [Thanks sp]
- Article 14: The Town Council formerly known as Hong Kah
- TOC: Disagreeing without being disagreeable
- Musings From the Lion City: Speaking From Experience

Infoblogoramus
- pinkdot.sg: Pink Profile: Oogachaga
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 28 May-4 Jun

Life, the universe and everything
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: M1 Service Disruption: Separating a Good Crisis Response from the Great
- Alvinology: Singapore Arts Festival 2011: HERstory 她的故事
- Cooler Insights: Universal Studios Singapore Opens in Grand Fashion

Stuff
- Yahoo: NSP’s Nicole Seah on politics and life after GE

Daily SG: 27 May 2011

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Molitics: Misinterpretation, Misquote and Ministerial Salaries
- Mr Wang Says So: Possible Formulae for Determining Ministers’ Salaries
- Leong Sze Hian: 10 ideas for ministerial salary reform
- Alex Lew Yan Liang: Rethinking Salary for Ministers
- TOC: Ministerial Pay Talk taken out of context?
- TOC: Quoted Out Of Context, Dr Lim?
- TOC: Dignity and respect come from genuine service
- TOC: About that other comment, Dr Lim
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Singaporeans got provide BIG HOUSE for PM Lee
- Singapore Notes: Lessons From The Private Sector
- My Singapore News: Political appointments are not employments
- Blogging for Myself: MP Lim Wee Kiat on Ministerial Pay
- Today Voices: Reviewing ministerial salaries: Seven lessons from the private sector
- Yahoo: ‘Reasonable pay will help to maintain a bit of dignity’

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- catherinelim.sg: GE 2011’s Real Winners—The People (But Who Are We?)
- Sgpolitics.net: Constructive suggestions for a more responsive civil service
- Ahmad in Taiwan: Reform starts at home
- Telegraph: Will Singapore still swing under its new government?

Housing
- Chapter Two: Reload: Build-to-order scheme needs revamping
- Singapore Watch: Singapore HDB Public Housing is getting expensive
- Siew Kum Hong FB: Discussion on pengtoh’s “HDB and the great asset misconception” [Thanks George]

Fixing the Opposition
- Singapore Alternatives: Rule of Law – Justice and Equality
- Anonymous_X: 5 Possible ‘complications’ over Nicole Seah online donation [Thanks wacky_artz]

Minimum Wage
- TOC: Reviving The Minimum Wage Debate (Part 1)

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Immigration: This balls-up happened here?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: A Lifetime to Master

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Empowering Schools, Allowing Students To Enjoy Economies Of Scale

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Thoughts on changes to the death penalty in China.
- TOC: Shadrake’s appeal dismissed, to start jail term
- MSN: Singapore to jail British author over ‘insulting book’

Daily Discourse
- Article 14: Jurong Town Council – Esmaco Services
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Kaya toast lowers Singapore’s productivity, part 2
- TOC: The sandwiched class of PAP bureaucracy
- The Temasek Review: Challenge to PAP to review and repeal repressive laws before engaging Singaporeans
- The Kent Ridge Common: PAP’s PR Problem: Never Watch Enough Channel 8 Dramas
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: SBS blocks 3rd-party apps from accessing bus arrival timing
- New Asia Republic: Limitations of intelligence services’ war on terrorism

Infoblogoramus
- Senang Diri: RSAF Open House 2011: Republic of Singapore Air Force Air Combat Command fast jets set to wow visitors with aerial display and mock attacks; aerial display underscores close cooperation with Singapore Army

Daily SG: 26 May 2011

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Referendum on the Ministerial Pay
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Is this the PAP value system?
- Molitics: Dr. Lim Wee Kiat Enlightens Us
- The Satay club: DOES MONEY EQUAL DIGNITY?
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: DPM Teo hints that Minister salaries will be cut by only a “little bit”
- The Temasek Review: Salary Review Committee another blatant farce
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: The face of the Singaporean elites: a cretinous snob
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: With MPs like these, PAP does not need enemies
- Teo Soh Lung FB: Review of ministerial salaries
- Singapore Actually: I Think Ministerial Pay Should be Linked 100% to Median Income of Citizens
- My Singapore News: Try a different thinking cap
- Life of a simple boy: So how much is your dignity worth?
- Think Happiness: Ministerial Salary for Leader of the Opposition?
- Free Malaysia Today: It’s payback time!
- Yahoo: ‘Don’t peg ministerial pay to private sector’’
- Yahoo: Ministerial salaries: Social compact or commercial contract?

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Reform agenda can backslide unless free speech and human rights entrenched
- Article 14: Where do we go now?
- TOC: Gratefulness has nothing to do with it
- TOC: Bring Eric Tan back to the party: WP volunteers
- Sgpolitics: PAP MPs are so used to a biased press, they can’t stand a free one
- New Nation: Be thankful for 50 years of white
- UnbiasedElectorate: The Post-Lee Singapore?
- Youtube: Mr. Low Thia Kiang’s 1st Aljunied Meet The People Session @ Aljunied GRC
- Yahoo: ‘Can PM Lee win over civil service sector?’
- NL-Aid: Singapore’s General Election: First signs of a chink in PAP’s armor?

Harry and Peanut Goh – down but not out
- The Temasek Review: An open letter to Lee Kuan Yew

Housing
- pengtoh’s blog: HDB and the great asset misconception
- pengtoh’s blog: Follow up: HDB leases will end at ZERO
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How to contain the effects of foreign buying of property…
- Today Voices: Create cheaper class of flats
- iProperty.com: Strong foreign presence in private property market
- People’s Daily: Foreigner buyers hit record in Singapore’s private home market in Q1

pengtoh’s 2 articles are a big fat reality check for everyone owning/planning to own a HDB flat (even 99-year private leasehold properties). And yes, that “R” word does appear on the contract you sign when you “buy” a HDB flat.

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Drive towards Satellite ERP system: Might as well solve the root of the problem
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: ERP Trial to Test Robustness of Satellite Based ERP

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: “Why Physician Compensation Plans Fail”

Re education
- Singapore Notes: Questions For The Education Minister

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: The Mandatory Death Penalty
- We Believe In Second Chances: Letters from Vui Kong – The Sixth Letter : Friendship and Hope

Daily Discourse
- TOC: REACHing out? Try a little humility first
- Sgpolitics: Dead bodies in water tanks, MRT graffiti, and the outsourcing menace
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) media biased says one in two only?

Life, the universe and everything
- visakan veerasamy: Is Singapore a gaze-averse nation?
- funny little world: The ticking clock.
- The Base Leg Blog: Preview: RSAF Open House 2011, Paya Lebar Airbase [Thanks Mike]

Infoblogoramus
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Our Air Force, Defending Our Skies. RSAF Open House’11.

Stuff
- OECD Better Life Initiative: There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics

Daily SG: 25 May 2011

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Words of the Cze: Ebony Tower
- Blogging for Myself: The practicalities of ministerial pay
- unbiasedelectorate: Civil Service salaries ‘may be’ relooked
- My Singapore News: Different views on the ministers’ salaries
- SDP: Govt finally heeds SDP’s calls for salary reduction
- ST Forum: Pay review should cover civil servants

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Change within PAP needs change in PAP personnel mindset
- On Nation and State: The followup: After the 2011 GE
- TOC: Potong Pasir petition campaign called off after police intervened
- TOC: PAP MP irked by coverage on opposition MPS
- The Temasek Review: Keep a close watch on the new team’s performance
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Tail Coaters’ Club II
- The Malaysian Insider: Singaporeans value growth over freedom of speech, poll shows
- Radio Australia: Will Singapore’s opposition be too polite in parliament?
- Economy Watch: Social Media in Singapore Politics: It’s Serious Business Folks!
- Foreign Policy: LeeKuanYew-istan Forever

Harry and Peanut Goh – down but not out
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Hon Sui Sen’s daughter chides Catherine Lim
- Asia Times: Old wine, old bottle in Singapore

New Cabinet
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The New Cabinet: Increasing Consultation And Heightening Transparency

Fixing the Opposition
- Ravi Philemon: NSP chief should know that there is such a thing called ‘designated donation’

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Singapore Commuter: Horrific Transport
- Singapore Notes: Everyday Robbing People
- The Satay Club: WHY COMPETITION IN POLITICS IS GOOD
- Yahoo: Commuters livid over cut-off in bus arrival info

Strangers in a Strange Land
- unbiasedelectorate: Singapore out to beckon Indian talent?

Stuff
- TechCrunch: Jeff Jarvis: When It Comes To New Journalism, ‘Transparency Is The New Objectivity’
- Computerworld: Apple security ninjas target MacDefender malware

Daily SG: 24 May 2011

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Ravi Philemon: Ministers’ salaries – what’s up for review is the mechanism – not the fundamentals
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: PAP Salary Cut – Real one or Bluff one?
- Political Writings: Why Ministers’ Pay Should Not Be Cut
- My Singapore News: Ministerial Salary Review
- 野人俱乐部: The Politicians’ Salary Charade
- The Temasek Review: Mr Ee, please take note – Politics is politics, business is business
- Singapore Notes: Review Of the Salary Review
- blogging for Myslef: How to pay ministers? Just ask them!
- Musings From the Lion City: An Easy Recommendation
- Anonymous_X: Better wage hikes likely in 2011 (except for President & Ministers??) [Thanks wacky_artz]
- MSN: Singapore to cut huge salaries of president and cabinet

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Change must not be cosmetic
- TOC: False identities and disloyalties
- pressrun.net: PM Lee now and in 1984
- AirKosong.com: PAP is a shining example of BN failure
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Interview with Mr Yam Ah Mee
- Yahoo: ‘Let’s see the substance of Cabinet changes’
- The Star: Singapore ushers in a new dawn
- China.org.cn: Cracks appear in the Singapore model
- The Malaysian Insider: The delicate (and mammoth) task of managing expectations — Eugene KB Tan

Fixing the Opposition
- Singapore Alternatives: Nicole Seah’s fund raising
- Sgpolitics.net: Nicole Seah Funding Donation Issue
- Political Writings: They Don’t Understand Political Donations
- The Temasek Review: Nicole Seah: I am unfazed by the baseless accusations

Housing
- Leong Sze Hian: PAP Transformation Series – 18 suggestions to reform HDB
- TOC: A macro outlook on the Singapore property market
- Yahoo: What could be the next housing policies?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Leong Sze Hian: PAP Transformation Series – 12 Suggestions to reform healthcare

CPF
- Leong Sze Hian: PAP Transformation Series – 13 suggestions to transform the CPF

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Spending S$4.9bn justification for S$470bn +++ reserves?

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: A letter to the Workers’ Party

Daily Discourse
- Article 14: Town Councils – conflict of interest?
- TOC: Another potential problem with the GRC
- New Nation: How politicians can get started on new media
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Kaya toast lowers Singapore’s productivity, part 1
- Think Happiness: Bring back Al-Jazeera English on cable

Life, the universe and everything
- Singapore Fountin Pen: Penitensiya: A Ritual Of Pain And Passion In The Philippines [Thanks Major]
- funny little world: So you want a kitty-cat..
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SBS: Trying to sabo govmin’s initiatives on innovation?

Infoblogoramus
- XinYun @ SG: Event: Chopin For Japan (Concert)

Stuff
- The WIP: New Integrated Resorts Source of Social and Environmental Problems in Singapore
- Saudi Gazette: 3 Saudi children die in a week at Singapore hospital
- The Economist: The race to replace DSK at the IMF. Speak softly and… [Thanks A]
- DailyTech: Apple Orders Technicians to Feign Ignorance About Mac Malware

Daily SG: 23 May 2011

New Cabinet
- TOC: Election shocker, now a Cabinet cracker
- New Asia Republic: A more democratic way to select our ministers
- Words of the Cze: Thematic Chairs
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Full Woman Ministers In Singapore: Have We Gone Back To Square One?
- Ravi Philemon: New generation, new leaders, new social contracts
- onesingaporean: Get a grip, WP supporters! You’re becoming an embarassment [Thanks George]
- The Temasek Review: A challenge to PM Lee to put his words into actions
- the paradoX files: ‘Sweeping Changes’ in Singapore Politics (Voices on Facebook, part I)
- nofearSingapore: Is PM Lee Hsien Loong an agent of change?
- Singapore Notes: More Empty Promises
- PMO: SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY HELD IN THE STATE ROOM, ISTANA ON 21 MAY 2011

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- catherinelim.sg: A Political Commentary in the Form of a Play
- TOC: Time to go beyond complaining
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Why the kids are scaring the PAP
- pressrun.net: The prophetic Singapore poll predictions
- New Nation: Tip for the PAP: Build a church
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: General elections 2016 and Singapore’s opposition parties
- My Singapore News: No political capital left
- My Sketchbook: Slaughtering the sacred cow -Post election
- Ahmad in Taiwan: China misreads Singapore model
- Youtube: Tribute To Nicole Seah
- Singapore 2025: Dedicated to all Workers’ Party supporters
- just rambling: GE11: We Were There
- Eurasia Review: Singapore Elections: The Opposition’s Growing Role – Analysis

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Into the minefield of ministerial salaries
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Might of the People’s Power
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PM Lee : Nothing’s sacrosanct in Government review of policies..
- TOC: A good start
- pressrun.net: Singapore ministers’ pay review follows long controversy
- Prata Politics: Potong Minister Salary!
- Leong Sze Hian: Pension for Ministers: How much of $11b?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Salary review panel: playing it safe?
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Indeed, Can They Be Trusted? Early Misgivings. [Thanks yl]
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Politics of envy & ministerial pay
- The Reform Party: The Reform Party’s Response to the Setting Up of A Committee to Review Ministerial Pay
- Yahoo: Netizens react to Ministers’ salary review

Harry and Peanut Goh – down but not out
- THINK HAPPINESS: A Cabinet Without Lee Kuan Yew
- The Kent Ridge Common: Arab Scholar Applauds move by MM Lee and SM Goh in Conference
- Feed Me To The Fish: I’m grateful to all who voted for Singapore!
- Politics in Singapore: The competing views of LKY
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Taiwanese Current Affairs on Singapore..
- The Globe and Mail: Singapore’s Minister Mentor steps down but not out
- Time: Why Lee Kuan Yew, Modern Singapore’s Founding Father, Stepped Down
- Worldcrunch: Diaspora And Development: A Chinese Take On Singapore

Operation Spectrum
- Ravi Philemon: Remembering the ‘Marxist Conspirators’ of 21st May 1987
- TOC: 21 May 1987
- funny little world: Episodes the Singaporean history textbooks forgot.
- Rachel Zeng: 24 years ago on May 21st

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: S’poreans and PR job stats – making no sense
- The Satay Club: FOREIGNERS ONLY, SINGAPOREANS NEED NOT APPLY?

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- New Asia Republic: Is there moral hazard in Healthcare subsidy?
- Ray of Light: Time to re-look the bridge to mental health and provide better support for caregivers

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Rail interchange upgraded; transportation issue much wider than that
- Singapore Notes: Mother Of All Screw Ups

Re education
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Distortion of Direct School Admission
- the paradoX files: Teenage Tragedy in Ang Mo Kio (Voices on Facebook, part II)

Minimum Wage
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Minimum wage in Sydney
- department of crappy engineering: minimum wage with minimum satisfaction

Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why property prices will fall ……soon(?)

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- TOC: Temasek Holdings – “not required” to disclose?

We are against capital punishment
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Singapore reeling from murder spree, drug scourge

Daily Discourse
- Sgpolitics: Civil disobedience — bridging the gap between SDP and its newfound supporters
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Comparing influence of alternative and main stream media in Singapore
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Internet reach by age groups: Singapore politics and demographics
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: A Interesting Article about PAP Town Council & Managing Agent
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Are foreign workers using our drinking water to bathe and have sex?
- Anonymous_X: Nicole Seah: controversy over elections donations [Thanks wacky_artz]
- New Asia Republic: Hot Air ASEAN

Life, the universe and everything
- Yee Jenn Jong: Let artists paint a vibrant Singapore

Infoblogoramus
- pinkdot.sg: FAQ: THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT PINK DOT
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 21-28 May

Stuff
- Yahoo: Controversy hits Nicole Seah over election donations
- The Globe and Mail: The little article that rocked Singapore
- CNBC: Property Prices Rebounding in Singapore’s Millionaire Row?

Daily SG: 20 May 2011

New Cabinet
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Curing the patient with engineers
- The Kent Ridge Common: Will the cabinet changes bring about real reform?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Sweeping Cabinet Changes
- Ravi Philemon: Sum of PAP’s new cabinet
- Dr Tan Cheng Bock: A Radical Cabinet Reshuffle For the Better
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Should Our Prime Minister Step Down Also?
- Teo Soh Lung: The new cabinet
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: The thinking behind PM Lee’s Cabinet line up
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Radical shuffle of Cabinet
- The Temasek Review: PM Lee playing ‘musical chairs’ with his latest cabinet ‘reshuffle’
- Musings From the Lion City: Tell It As It Is
- Singapore Notes: White Lies
- Political Writings: Disaster For Opposition in 2016?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Give PM a 100 days
- The Reform Party: The Reform Party Responds to PM Lee’s Cabinet Reshuffle
- Yahoo: What next? Ministers’ salaries must come down: SDP
- The Malaysian Insider: New Singapore Cabinet will have its work cut out — Eugene KB Tan

GE 2011 – A vote for change
- Article 14: Change: My wish list (non-exhaustive)
- defragment.me: Post-election thoughts & notes
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Young voters (aged 21.0 to 25.9) were responsible for 4.5% vote swing in 2011 Elections
- Today Voices: Clarifying those price differences
- Yahoo: PAP should not view Opposition as ‘enemy’: SPP’s Pwee

Minister Salaries + Pension
- Sgpolitics: Unanswered Questions on Ministers’ Pay
- ST Forum: Pensions: Tell it exactly like it is

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Give domestic helpers their dignity
- The Temasek Review: Singaporeans must be taken care first before bringing in foreign talents

Housing
- My Singapore News: Housing policy parameters

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Local Or Overseas Universities: Why Compare?

Daily Discourse
- Kiwiblog: Singapore
- My Singapore News: The Duke of Bukit Timah

Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: The man who lost his limbs
- The Long and Winding Road: The last level crossing in Singapore

Infoblogoramus
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Apply for your NDP 2011 tickets NOW!
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: ScreenSingapore 2011 – World, International or Asia-Pacific Premieres (5 – 12 June)

Stuff
- Getting at the truth: Our book, “Escape from Paradise,” was never banned by Singapore. Thank you Singapore!
- Yale Daily News: Benhabib: Why I oppose Yale in Singapore
- ZDNet: Jobseekers fear career fallout from social media
- The Economist: Singapore and Lee Kuan Yew. Not fade away [Thanks A]

Daily SG: 19 May 2011

New Cabinet
- TOC: Bold Cabinet line-up, now for the follow through
- Sgpolitics: New cabinet lineup: Cynicism and doubts remain
- Politics in Singapore: Surprises in new Cabinet
- Singapore Dino: New Cabinet a start, but public must continue scrutiny
- Singapore Notes: Night Of The Long Knives
- Singapore Sojourn: Something Old, Something New
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: PM Lee reminds everyone Goh Chok Tong is RETIRED
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: My views on the new cabinet lineup
- Prata Politics:So Long Farewell Auf Weidersehen
- Where Bears Roam Free: Schoolboy Chan Chun Sing gets schoolboy portfolio
- My Singapore News: The GE aftermath – Cabinet shake out
- Life of a simple boy: New cabinet lineup!
- Jacob 69er: Change policies, not just ministers: SDP’s statement on cabinet appointments
- pressrun.net: PM Lee announces epochal cabinet changes
- Ahmad in Taiwan: I hereby present to you – The New Cabinet!
- mrbrown: PM’s new Cabinet Hellos
- Yahoo: PM Lee means business: analysts
- The Jakarta Globe: New Singapore Cabinet Exposes Lack of Talent: Opposition Leader

Singapore 2011 General Elections
A vote for change
- Article 14: Change from within?
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: From 2001: A commentary by the Roundtable on the 2001 GE
- Singapore Kopi Tok: PAP’s GE2011 Post-mortem
- A Reporter’s Memoir: NO HARD FEELINGS: Open letter to PM
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Teo Soh Lung : The Demise of Fear..
- Ravi Philemon: Political parties should engage on all platforms
- Too Much Energy: GE2011 – through the lens of a marketeer [Thanks Winnie]
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Demographic advantage of 4.8% vote swing to Opposition in 2016 Elections
- The Temasek Review: Checks and balances in politics and the tragedy of GRC
- Yee Jenn Jong: The real work starts
- Zakaria Zainal: 24: 2011 Singapore General Elections
- New Asia Republic: PAP’s Aljunied GRC gambit for 2016

Other post GE stuff
- TOC: MK resident files complaint against alleged Cooling-off Day violation
- The Temasek Review: SPP to host ‘Thank You’ party for supporters this Saturday at Potong Pasir
- ST Forum: Emulate Chiam’s unwavering spirit

Kate Spade Tin Pei Ling
- Rants of a Weird Little Bird: Cooling-Off Day – How to Deal With Nicole Seah and Tin Pei Ling’s Violations
- IZ Reloaded: Tin Pei Ling He Loves Me Not Club Mix [Thanks IZ]

Harry and Peanut Goh – down but not out
- Desparatebeep: The People That You Mentor?
- My Singapore News: Are they still in politics or out of politics?

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Letters from Vui Kong – The Fifth Letter : The Honest Law

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Traffic Routes, Financial Routes
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Lifting the Party Whip-comments on an article in TODAY [Thanks yl]
- Teo Soh Lung FB: Civil disobedience and the SDP
- Arra’s World: No, The Maid Did Not Ask For It
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Brazil legalises same-sex civil unions

Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: Don’t miss the last train!

Infoblogoramus
- pinkdot.dg: COUNTDOWN TO PINK DOT 2011: 1 MONTH TO GO! [Thanks Prashant]

Stuff
- FT.com: Après Strauss-Kahn [Updated]… [Thanks mackinder]
- AP: AP sources: Raiders knew mission a one-shot deal
- Daily Tech: Facebook Busted Paying for Dirty Media Attack on Google
- Ars Technica: Why we’ve reached the end of the camera megapixel race
- Web Strategy: Diagram: How the Air Force Response to Blogs [Thanks A]

Daily SG: 18 May 2011

Singapore 2011 General Elections
A vote for change
- motochan: A Redefined Meritocracy as the New Social Compact for Singapore?
- New Asia Republic: Scrutinising Tan Jee Say’s economic plan
- Sgpolitics.net: Electoral politics alone may not solve all of society’s woes
- Sgpolitics.net: GE2011 — Looking Back and Peeking Ahead
- Singapore Alternatives: PAP lost their BIGGEST GAMBLE
- TOC: Little things, not money or upgrading, matter
- TOC: What exactly is the change in PAP’s promise?
- Senang Diri: After the battle: PAPies conduct media relations after-action review
- Senang Diri: After the battle: Public relations and sentiment management hits and misses in the General Election 2011 campaign
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Talk at the Post Museum: election perspectives
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Worrying Calmness Of Stability
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Insider thoughts of a election candidate
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Pre GE Expectations and Post GE Frustrations
- Singapore Notes: This Will Not Wash
- The Gigamole Diaries: Population issues..
- Live. Life: Unsettled but unmoved
- Donald Low FB: What went wrong? [Thanks FO]

Other post GE stuff
- blankanvas: lessons from the “Social Media Election”
- Ahmad in Taiwan: Chen Show Mao on cover of Asia Weekly
- New Asia Republic: Political compass map of Singapore
- Youtube: BBC – Singapore’s election analyst: Southeast Asian Expert, Michael Montesano (09 May 2011)
- Youtube: SDP thank-you dinner: Dr. Chee Soon Juan 徐顺全 (14 May 2011, 8.23pm)
- Youtube: Pritam Singh Club Mix

Kate Spade Tin Pei Ling
- The Satay Club: CAUGHT IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Why people should not hate Tin Pei Ling..
- My Singapore News: A measure of fairplay and decency
- Anonymous_X: Who – and where – is Denise He? [Thanks wacky_artz]
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: Tin Pei Ling: National Youth Forum 2008 Publicity Video
- Yahoo: Buzz over new Tin Pei Ling video
- Youtube: Tin Pei Ling: National Youth Forum 2008 陈佩玲 (06 Sep 2008)

Strangers in a Strange land
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Xenophobia?: It is a reaction to the distortion of social fabric

We are against capital punishment
- The Enquirer: Killing a chicken to scare the monkeys?
- TOC: Given enough rope

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Public Service: Evaluating Concrete Plans For Public Engagement, Feedback
- The Rot Within: Talent Identification
- TOC: Lured by false promises
- TOC: One year after assault, investigations still ongoing?
- The Temasek Review: GM of Jurong TC is the MD of its contractor for managing township services
- Desparatebeep: Bring Back Common Sense!
- The Dim-Post: Like Singapore

Life, the universe and everything
- Alvinology: Singapore’s Newest Tourist Spot – The “Welcome to Potong Pasir” Billboard featuring Chiam See Tong
- SGEntrepreneurs: [Video] The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Infoblogoramus
- Seelan Palay: Invitation to my next art exhibition, CAPITAL

Selected News Stories
- Frontline: Singapore’s long-governing People’s Action Party triumphs again but slides down in popularity in several pockets.
- Bernama: Singapore Election: A Lesson We Learned Earlier?
- The Economist: The biggest losers
- WSJ: Singapore Private Home Sales Keep Rising
- FutureGov: Government Efficiency Rankings: Hong Kong tops chart

Daily SG: 16 May 2011

Harry and Peanut Goh – Down but not out
- TOC: PM Lee’s tasks ahead
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Departure of SM Goh and MM Lee — a hugely symbolic move
- Sgpolitics.net: My take on MM Lee and SM Goh stepping down from cabinet
- The Craftsman’s Forge: The Change of Singapore Politics?
- Words of the Cze: Long Goodbye
- Yawning Bread: Lee Hsien Loong scores a nought for political nous
- New Asia Republic: A new dawn in Parliament
- The Satay Club: TIME FOR THE HATCHET TO BE BURIED
- The Satay Club: MULLING OVER LEE KUAN YEW’S LEGACY
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: It keeps getting better!
- Molitics: On Ministers Leaving the Cabinet
- Singapore Notes: A House Divided
- Politics in Singapore: Shock as MM Lee and SM Goh retire
- Singapore Life and Times: Calling time
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: MM Lee & SM Goh to retire from Cabinet
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Transition finally over
- Singapore Sojourn: Two Less Lions In Lion City [Thanks Roger]
- Feed Me To The Fish: Paptism No More!!!
- The Satay Club: THE LONG FAREWELL FINALLY ENDS
- The Temasek Review: Kenneth Jeyaretnam: MM and SM’s departures a ‘PR exercise’
- NSP: NSP’s Statement on the retirement of MM Lee and SM Goh
- SDP: SDP welcomes resignations, calls for further cuts in PMO
- Reuters: Singapore’s Lee steps down, but not full break with past

Singapore 2011 General Elections
A vote for change
- catherinelim.sg: After GE 2011, some crystal-ball gazing
- Dr Tan Cheng Bock: No more Blank Cheque for the PAP [Thanks Willy]
- Yawning Bread: How and when did you decide? Part 3
- Bernard Leong: Where & Why did Social Media succeed & fail in GE 2011? [Thanks Bernard]
- Illusio: Modelling the Singapore elections II: Are Singaporeans stupid voters?
- Singapore Kopi Tok: GE: One Week Later
- TOC: You are the people’s servants, please remember this
- TOC: Disparity between election results and seats won
- TOC: Protecting the sacred cows behind electric fences
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Pre GE Expectations and Post GE Frustrations
- My Singapore News: What if there was no alternate media?
- Live. Life: No dilemma
- New Nation: My wishlist for Singapore politics
- Empty Vessel: History repeats itself

Other post GE stuff
- Cherien George: TOWARDS A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY?
- Illusio: Meet Cherian George, Singapore’s apostle for High Broderism
- New Asia Republic: Cognitive dissonance within the Worker’s Party?
- Sgpolitics.net: WP’s Eric Tan resigns ungraciously
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Lina Chiam – Is She Up To The Task?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Mr. Chiam See Tong’s Lessons For All Aspiring Politicians
- TOC: Do the opposition parties exist solely to defeat the PAP?
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: A Poor Workman Quarrels With His Tools [Thanks yl]
- Singapore Notes: Quitters’ Row
- The Temasek Review: Possible changes in Cabinet
- Think Happiness: Interview on transition of power
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Eric Tan is a gentleman
- TOC: Singapore People’s Party aims high
- Sylvia Lim’s Blog: Those Aljunied Voters!
- just rambling: Infographics and GE 2011
- Youtube: 前线追踪 《大选之后》 Frontline: Nicole Seah 佘雪玲 (13 May 2011) – Subtitles [Thanks Stanley]

Minister Salaries + Pension
- TOC: Pension for ministers – more disclosure, please
- The Temasek Review: PAP ministers start collecting pensions at age 55 even in office – DPM Teo
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Pension scheme

Healthcare & Healthcare Provider
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Healthcare cracks as wide as Bishan River…

Re education
- my blog my life: How Effective Is The Education System In Singapore In Preparing You For Your Working Life?

Strangers in a Strange land
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Foreigners: When the number gets too many

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: The Right Socialism for Workers
- TOC: A conflict of interest?
- Empty Vessel: You can make the Tissue Issue go away
- In the Beginning was the Logos: Why Secular Democratic Discourse is Inadequate and Needs the Resources of Religious Discourse
- The Satay Club: JURONG TOWN COUNCIL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- New Asia Republic: Diplomacy war on drugs
- Youtube: Singapore’s excuses to the UN Periodic Review for continuing gay discrimination

Life, the universe and everything
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Singapore’s Malay Entertainment Industry, Poor?
- The Satay Club: SINGAPORE’S NEXT CELEBRITY BLOGGER?

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 14-21 May
- pinkdot.sg: SAVE THE DATE: 18 JUNE 2011

Selected News Stories
- The Star: Wanted – leaders with talent and fire
- Yahoo: Trimmer, slimmer, leaner Cabinet: analyst
- Bloomberg: Lee’s Party Aims to Renew Image After Singapore Election
- Malaysian Insider: Singapore: Survey shows nearly 8 in 10 public transport commuters dissatisfied
- wsws.org: Singapore election reflects anti-government groundswell

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Daily SG 13 May 2011

Singapore 2011 General Elections
A vote for change
- New Asia Republic: Seeking Liberty in a Democracy [Thanks D]
- Chapter Two: Reload: The real generation that does not remember
- Article 14: GRCs – where do we go from here?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PAP searches for answers…
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Lim Hwee Hua: PAP only needs to be transformed?
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: PAP DOES NOT KNOW how to solve Singapore’s problems
- TOC: The GRC system – I don’t know what to say..
- Icarus Flew Too High: This is why we should have Proportional Representation
- Ahmad in Taiwan: My political awakening
- Feed Me To The Fish: From whence I came? Here I am, Grateful!
- Yours Truly Singapore: A random conversation with a PAP loyalist
- under a Pipala Tree: what revolution?
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: A Change of Heart
- Freak Thoughts: Dust settles
- The Gigamole Diaries: The PAP’s new clothes….
- Yahoo SingaporeScene: ‘Time to discard policies that divide S’poreans’

Other post GE stuff
- Singapore Actually: Elections Rallies photos
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: SDP post election press conference (unedited video) [Thanks Stanley]
- News Clips: Nominated ministers: Good or bad idea? [Thanks George]
- New Asia Republic: Ode to George Yeo: Pretty Hurt for a Whiteshirt [Thanks D]

The Noose
- Today Voices: A front-row view of ‘spoilt’ votes
- The Satay Club: For them the next election starts now
- Yahoo: Workers’ Party MPs decide on wards in Aljunied
- East Asia Forum: Reflections on the Singapore general election
- Asia Unbound: Thoughts on Singapore’s Election
- The Economist: Low expectations – In Singapore winning 7% of parliamentary seats is tantamount to an opposition triumph
- PBS: Singapore Entering a ‘New Phase’ in Politics

Healthcare & Healthcare Provider
- TOC: Why are cancer treatments not subsidized by the government?
- Singapore M.D.: Subsidy – the cure for all woes?

Minister Salaries
- Singapore Notes: Money Is Never Enough For These Guys

Re education
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Political Education In Singapore: Beyond ‘National Education’

Strangers in a Strange land
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: ‘We almost had to pull him off the plane’

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: NGOs form a coalition against the death penalty in Malaysia

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Ethics and SAF Values

Life, the universe and everything
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Local bank investors are strange
- Art Radar Asia: The fences are down so look inside: Singapore Biennale 2011′s Old Kallang Airport – picture feast

Selected News Stories
- Reuters: Mind the gap: Asian income gulf shows economic model’s flaws

Daily SG 12 May 2011

Singapore 2011 General Elections
A vote for change
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: “REFORM” or “TRANSFORM” – Change in what form?
- Chapter Two: Reload: Respecting the democratic process
- My Political Soapbox: Why the election was still a success
- TOC: Are you LISTENING?
- TOC: The defining moment down the slippery slope
- TOC: Don’t let us down – an open letter to all political parties
- My Singapore News: What a shame
- Blogging for Myself: Book: Next Generation Democracy
- my blog my life: my thoughts about the GE
- Musings From the Lion City: Calling Time On The GRC
- nofearSingapore: PAP reform: Start with the “No upgrading for Opposition Ward” policy [Thanks Doc]
- TOC: Criticisms of Tin Pei Ling are valid
- Daily Breaks: We Have A Different Dream [Thanks Annabel]
- Singapore Actually: What a Contrast: Void deck for WP MP Yaw Shin Leong and Air-con Office for PAP MP Tin Pei Ling

Post 2011 GE Analysis
- Singapore Alternatives: Reflections on GE 2011
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: How and when did you decide? Part 2
- The Rot Within: Analysis of overseas votes
- The Rot Within: On the UMR Pre-election Survey
- TOC: How many did not vote?
- Politics in Singapore: Opposition flaws in the SMCs
- My Singapore News: Goh Meng Seng accepting full responsibility
- The Kent Ridge Common: Anthony Oei’s “Reality Check” – solid victory for PAP or workings of the GRC system?
- The Thinking Fish Tank: A First World State of Mind
- Thoughts of a Singapore Statistician: Secret Illegal Singapore Election Poll [Thanks Aurvandil]
- New Nation: Why Gerald Giam should be NCMP

Aljunied
- Sgpolitics.net: Aljunied GRC: A disinformation campaign that took forever to implement
- Mr Wang Says So: George Yeo and His True Legacy for Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: Which way will George Yeo go?
- Singapore Notes: Another One Bites The Dust
- Think Hapiness: Feedback to Challenging Times by Aljunied Resident

Other post GE thoughts
- Sgpolitics.net: Joel Kong’s letter to Jurong Town Council questioning wrongful dismissal of Geraldine Soh
- Where Bears Roam Free: Jurong Town Council employee’s sacking looks like wrongful dismissal
- Words of the Cze: Back To The Future
- pressrun.net: PAP and the new media
- Big Talk Singapore: Singapore Pledge version 2.0
- Crisis Communication in the Era of Social Media: How Aljunied GRC Was Lost: Importance of Correctly Identifying the Opponent’s Theme
- The Satay Club: TIN PEI LING BATTLES AGAINST CRITICISM
- the mrbrown show: the yam song

The Noose
- CNA: Elections Department releases final tally of votes
- Yahoo Singapore Scene: Will there be a transformation?
- Time: Why Singapore’s Election Didn’t Live Up to the Hype
- Asian Sentinel: Analyzing the Singapore Election
- asia!: Chiam See Tong – He Who Dared to Oppose and was Much Loved for It.

Strangers in a Strange land
- Desparatebeep: Who Would You Pick?

Healthcare & Healthcare Provider
- TOC: Six months’ wait – just to do a scan

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Objectivity and Neutrality in Emerging Media Landscape
- Ahmad in Taiwan: Chiang Ching-Kuo vs Lee Kwan Yew – A tale of two strongmen
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: GST is unnecessary and bad
- TOC: The PAP and the People – A Great Affective Divide (Revisited)

Daily SG 11 May 2011

Singapore 2011 General Elections
A vote for change
- Article 14: Change?
- Sam’s Thoughts: An Open Letter to Minister Vivian Balakrishnan
- The Gigamole Diaries: Doing the right operation….. ala Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
- Molitics: Expect no Change, Singapore
- Yawning Bread: The apology manifesto
- funny little world: “From whence we came”: A young Singaporean’s reponse to MM Lee’s comments.
- laïcité: The ugly side of pragmatism
- My Singapore News: Time to depoliticise community organizations
- Think Happiness: Send message to leaders of Holland-Bukit Timah GRC
- CogitAsia: Politics in the Lion City: Toward an “Orchid Evolution”?
- Gwee Li Sui FB: Solomon Grundy – Singapore Version

Post 2011 GE Analysis
- Yawning Bread: How and when did you decide? Part 1
- Sgpolitics: Can the SDP become a mainstream opposition party?
- Figuring how faith fits into this world: Post-General Elections 2011 : Reflections of a Christians

Aljunied
- Eleven Years and Counting: Low Thia Khiang – The Master Strategist and General [Thanks Chin Leng]
- New Nation: Post coitus care: What happens after the climax?
- Singapore Notes: Calling It Quits
- Think Happiness: Update from Aljunied resident: Challenging Times

Potong Pasir
- New Nation: Mending a broken Potong Pasir
- Singapore Notes: Violence Against Democracy
- Yahoo: Police stop Potong Pasir petition signing session
- EDMW: A photo-tribute to Mr Chiam See Tong

Other post GE thoughts
- guanyinmiao’s musings: A Second Chance For Miss Tin Pei Ling
- Arra’s World: What Has Been Learnt From GE2011, I Wouldn’t Trade It For A Kate Spade Endorsment
- Hun Boon: Life after the General Election
- Where Bears Roam Free: Jurong Town Council employee’s sacking smells foul
- The Temasek Review: PAP membership of Jurong TC manager who sacked NSP supporter censored by state media
- Mr Wang Says So: Jurong Town Council Employee Sacked …. Allegedly for Supporting the Opposition
- Charlotte Rilakkuma FB: Infamous quotes by the PAP… empty promises.. insults that mock us
- Balderdash: “Can Singapore cope with the Trojan horse of democracy?” – you can’t make this shit up!
- My Very Own Glob: Goh Chok Tong Analogy Contest

The Noose
- Yahoo: SPP, WP offered NCMP seats
- The Malaysian Insider: 60pc of vote, 93pc of seats?
- Guardian: Singapore is taking the first steps to true democracy
- Forbes: One Party But Not Just One Outcome
- The Economist: A win-win election?
- The Urban Wire: Yammering online for Yam Ah Mee

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Review: Song Hua Jiang Restaurant (“Dog” meat)

Infoblogoramus
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: UTTERLY ART celebrates its 10th

Selected News Stories
- Times of India: Singapore out to beckon Indian talent
- ars technica: The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded

Daily SG 10 May 2011

Singapore 2011 General Elections
Post 2011 GE Analysis
- New Asia Republic: Post GE: Where cows are no longer sacred
- The Kent Ridge Common: Oppositon Scorecard II: GE 2011 Aftermath
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: >But which ground to work?
- Words of the Cze by piaroh: Gambit
- pressrun.net: 2011 election scorecard for PAP and ministers
- pressrun.net: 60 per cent vote not a big drop for PAP
- The Buffet Table: The Ivory Tower
- TOC: Autocracy, belief and control
- Musings From the Lion City: GE Winners & Losers (Part 2)
- Project Lucy: GE 2011: Winners and Losers
- Thetwophilo’s Blog: Singapore Parliamentary Maths 101 [Thanks yl]
- Rachel Zeng: GE2011: Notable moments (Part 1)
- De Leviathan @ SG: Post GE 2011 Comments & Impact on Property Market.
- Social Media and Digital Marketing in Singapore: George Yeo, Aljunied GRC, The Singapore Elections And Social Media

Aljunied
- The Rot Within: Confessions of an Aljunied voter
- TOC: George Yeo’s press statement
- R3load.net: George Yeo No More Kuay Teow Hot and Nice Song [Thanks IZ]

Chiam See Tong: Mr Potong Pasir
- TOC: Chiam’s supporters rally to seek by-election in Potong Pasir (updated with video)
- Politics in Singapore: Chiam lost, TPL won, period.
- A Singaporean says: Salute to Mr Chiam, shame on voting chaos
- The Satay Club: Potong Pasir residents won’t give up

Hougang
- Balderdash: Observations from a friend who was at Hougang Stadium on Saturday night (Workers’ Party Election Assembly Point)

Oppossition Parties
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Democrats start preparation for next GE
- TOC: Lets strive towards a First World Parliament: WP

The GRC system
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: The GRC System had not Failed for PAP
- Where Bears Roam Free: Birth of the GRC – history captured on video
- My Singapore News: How to bring down a GRC?

A vote for change
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Fellow Singaporeans, I think we have made a big mistake…
- groundnotes: The Populist, Offensive and the Middle Paths
- New Nation: PAP, be warned- Political Writings: Unjustified Angst Over George Yeo
- Edmund Tee FB: When Opposing is the Loyal, Royal Thing to do. [Thanks Wancheng]
- TOC: The battle for 2016 starts now
- TOC: A new hope
- My Political Soapbox: And SM shoots himself in the foot again
- The Long and Winding Road: Reflections on the morning after
- Blogging for Myself: Autopilot and the Two-Party system
- Singapore Notes: No One Should Be Left Behind
- SpotlightOnSingapore: PAP soul searching: the writing is on the wall surely
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: The Singapore Cabinet is PG-rated
- flaneurose: GE 2011 aftermath, random quick thoughts, and prognostications.
- Toadjuice… off the blender: Singapore Votes… congratulations Singapore!
- Critical Piece of Shit: A new era begins…
- Yahoo SingaporeScene: Polling day reflections

Other post GE stuff
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Counting agent me too
- Jeff’s Blog: General Elections 2011 And The Fantastic Returning Officer
- my blog my life: NSP supporter sacked from Jurong Town Council after being caught selling NSP merchandise at rallies
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Tin Pei Ling’s Facebook posting on Cooling Off Day
- My sketchbook: Politics 101 class for PAP
- Youtube: Star Wars: George Yeo’s Last Stand – SG Elections 2011 Part 3
- Ahmad in Taiwan: Yam Ah Mee iPhone ringtone

The Noose
- Think Happiness: 2011 General Election Media Monitoring
- The Star: Opposition party celebrates first-ever election victory in GRC
- My Sinchew: Typical Singaporeans
- Free Malaysia Today: A chastened PAP
- AP: Singapore mulls changes after opposition gains
- Scoop NEws: Social media dents invincibility of Singapore’s rulers
- Yahoo: Why it’s time to end the GRC
- The Interpreter: Singapore elections: No going back [Thanks A]

Widening Income Gap
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Dissecting the Budget – Ideas To Grow Singaporeans’ Incomes

Re education
- New Asia Republic: Towards an all embracing education system

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: Doctors & Nurses (and other healthcare staff)

Daily Discourse
- A Singaporean says: Scholar, Officer and Gentleman [Thanks sp]
- New Asia Republic: Why inequality is good

Life, the universe and everything
- Mr Wang Says So: Political Poems, Star Gazing and Literature Texts
- ZEYnHEXinRL: A 100% Singaporean World [via Alvinology]

Infoblogoramus
- XinYun @ SG: Event: Habitat-Barclays Bare Your Sole 2011 Charity Walk
- FB Event: CAPITAL: An art exhibition by Seelan Palay & Shikin Ali

Daily SG: 9 May 2011

Aljunied
- Senang Diri: After the battle: Aljunied GRC
- Singapore Dino: The hammer has struck
- guanyinmiao’s musings: In Retrospect Rhetorically: Why Aljunied Was Won (And Lost)
- Where Bears Roam Free: An insider’s view why PAP lost Aljunied
- The Satay Club: Aljunied wakes up to blue skies
- The Satay Club: Dignified in defeat
- pressrun.net: For George Yeo
- The Enquirer: Hougang spirit in the air
- Singapore Notes: Operation Save Our George
- TOC: pictures of WP at Hougang Stadium
- Youtube: Low Thia Kiang’s victory speech part 1 part 2

Chiam See Tong: Mr Potong Pasir
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The Man Who Loves Singapore
- my blog my life: To Mr Chiam See Tong
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Of Chiam See Tong, Singapore’s general elections and ‘new’ and future Singaporeans
- Alvinology: Potong Pasir, My Kind of Town
- TOC: The fall of Potong Pasir – a resident’s account
- TOC: Chiam’s supporters rally to seek by-election in Potong Pasir
- Facebook: Petition for Residents of Potong Pasir

Hougang
- Youtube: Yaw Shin Leong’s victory speech

Opposition Parties
- TOC: A new chapter for the SDP has just begun
- Nicole Seah FB: Tonight… And the next 5 years
- The Satay Club: NSP leader takes responsibility for ‘failure’
- ST Forum: Groupthink: WP replies

The Gospel of Harry
- Blogging for Myself: Lee Kuan Yew versus Low Thia Khiang
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Quotes to console MM

Housing
- Today Voices: Asset values are not everything

Healthcare
- Singapore M.D.: GE 2011: The Aftermath

The GRC system
- New Asia Republic: GRC effects: George Yeo out, Tin Pei Ling in
- Sgpolitics.net: What this election could mean for the GRC and political system
- Politics in Singapore: WP wins Aljunied, but GRCs still favour PAP
- My Little Corner: Pitfalls of a GRC is clear for all to see
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: 81:6
- The Satay Club: GRC system makes a mockery of Singapore
- deadpris: The Flaws of Singapore’s GRC System
- funny little world: GRC: A Gross (mis)Representation of our Community.
- My Singapore News: The vulnerability of GRC

Post 2011 GE Analysis
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Groundwork, good candidates and consistent branding, part 2
- Empty Vessel: Closing thoughts on the elections
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Election Numbers : What they tell us…
- TOC: What do the results mean?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Opposition Scorecard: GE 2011 Aftermath
- The Kent Ridge Common: Should WP give up its NCMP seats to NSP, SDP or RP?
- My Political Soapbox: GE 2011: Highlights, LOWlights and the Road Ahead
- flaneurose: Assessing the Generational Shift Effect in GE 2011
- The Satay Club: A warning, not a mandate
- The Satay Club: The beginnings of a two-party system
- The Blue Sweater: A Victory for Democracy
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Aftermath of GE2011
- KOH’S SPACE: The Watershed 2011 Singapore General Election – The Result of Worker’s Party Strategy versus PAP’s Juggernaut
- Musings From the Lion City: GE Winners & Losers (Part 1)
- Singapore Life and Times: Point of inflexion
- Anonymous_X: Two Predictions for Singapore GE 2016 [Thanks wacky]
- Small steps for Social PR: “Marketing Warfare” lessons from Singapore General Elections 2011 – The Results
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: New Foreign Minister

Blogger Thoughts
- catherinelim.sg: How GE 2011 proved me—oh, so wonderfully!—wrong
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Where do we go from here?
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Counting agent me
- Illusio: Modelling the Singapore elections I: A call for electoral law reform
- Desparatebeep: Nothing Changed – Everything Changed.
- TOC: Post-GE 2011, and the fire within
- Sgpolitics.net: A Nation with Rotten Teeth
- Insane Polygons: My Thoughts on GE 2011
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Election’s Over, What’s Next?
- Quirkychic: A home, not a house.
- insights, interests, intelligence: General Elections 2011, Singapore
- My insight into the world’s topics: Are we that incompetent?
- Want some tau huay?: Why I’m satisfied with this election
- Singapore Notes: It’s Safer In The Matrix
- Vicky’s Writings: GE2011
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Post election feelings
- The Lycan Times: It is over
- Political Writings: GE 2011: Regrets
- Vinyarb: The day after
- Flying Low: In the aftermath
- Think For Me, Singapore: An open letter to Mr Lee Hsien Loong [Thanks Peter]
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Regime Change – A Uniquely Singapore Project
- Loh and Behold: Oh No! They’re Back! [Thanks Annabel]
- My sketchbook: After the election
- Youtube: Yam Ah Mee Club Mix

The Noose
- Rich in Every Sense: Will Straits Times Index improve?
- Reuters: Singapore PM may be preparing ground for change
- Penn Olson: Politician Tin Pei Ling Faces Facebook Petition Trouble
- Reuters: Analysis: Singapore may now have to tackle income gap
- Yahoo: WP’s Low calls for smooth Aljunied handover
- NYT: Opposition Makes Inroads in Singapore
- NYT: Vote Forces Singapore’s Leader to Reconsider Style
- Youtube: GE 2011 results highlights

Daily SG: 8 May 2011

Party Valid Votes % Votes Total
Valid Votes
Rej Votes % Rej Total Votes Cast PAP % Swing Opp % Swing Maj % Maj
Aljunied GRC WP 72,165 54.71 131,897 1,788 1.34 133,685 NA NA 12,433 9.42
PAP 59,732 45.29
Ang Mo Kio GRC PAP 112,544 69.33 162,323 5,030 3.01 167,353 NA NA 62,765 38.66
RP 49,779 30.67
Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC PAP 62,282 56.94 109,374 2,085 1.87 111,459 NA NA 15,190 13.88
SPP 47,092 43.06
Bukit Panjang PAP 20,349 66.26 30,711 744 2.37 31,455 -10.93 +10.93 9,987 32.52
SDP 10,362 33.74
Chua Chu Kang GRC PAP 89,605 61.20 146,422 3,061 2.05 149,483 NA NA 32,788 22.4
NSP 56,817 38.80
East Coast GRC PAP 59,895 54.83 109,237 1,847 1.66 111,084 NA NA 10,553 9.66
WP 49,342 45.17
Holland-Bukit Timah GRC PAP 48,682 60.10 81,004 1,719 2.08 82,723 NA NA 16,360 20.2
SDP 32,322 39.90
Hong Kah North PAP 18,149 70.61 25,702 573 2.18 26,275 NA NA 10,596 41.22
SPP 7,553 29.39
Hougang WP 14,833 64.81 22,886 261 1.13 23,147 -2.07 +2.07 6,780 29.62
PAP 8,053 35.19
Joo Chiat PAP 9,630 51.01 18,878 314 1.64 19,192 NA NA 382 2.02
WP 9,248 48.99
Jurong GRC PAP 76,489 66.96 114,223 2,703 2.31 116,926 NA NA 38,755 33.92
NSP 37,734 33.04
Marine Parade GRC PAP 78,182 56.65 138,015 3,080 2.18 141,095 NA NA 18,349 13.3
NSP 59,833 43.35
Moulmein-Kallang GRC PAP 44,828 58.56 76,549 1,659 2.12 78,208 NA NA 13,107 17.12
WP 31,721 41.44
Mountbatten PAP 11,965 58.65 20,401 418 2.01 20,819 NA NA 3,529 17.3
NSP 8,436 41.35
Nee Soon GRC PAP 80,659 58.39 138,141 2,341 1.67 140,482 NA NA 23,177 16.78
WP 57,482 41.61
Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC PAP 100,382 64.79 154,928 4,544 2.85 159,472 NA NA 45,836 29.58
SDA 54,546 35.21
Pioneer PAP 14,581 60.73 24,011 446 1.82 24,457 NA NA 5,151 21.46
NSP 9,430 39.27
Potong Pasir PAP 7,973 50.36 15,832 242 1.51 16,074 +6.18 -6.18 114 0.72
SPP 7,859 49.64
Punggol East PAP 16,969 54.53 31,120 551 1.74 31,671 NA NA 4,204 13.51
WP 12,765 41.02
SDA 1,386 4.45
Radin Mas PAP 18,591 67.11 27,701 669 2.36 28,370 NA NA 9,481 34.22
NSP 9,110 32.89
Sembawang GRC PAP 84,185 63.89 131,763 3,290 2.44 135,053 NA NA 36,607 27.78
SDP 47,578 36.11
Sengkang West PAP 14,667 58.08 25,252 437 1.70 25,689 NA NA 4,082 16.16
WP 10,585 41.92
Tampines GRC PAP 72,664 57.22 127,001 3,074 2.36 130,075 -11.29 NA 18,327 14.44
NSP 54,337 42.78
West Coast GRC PAP 72,465 66.57 108,860 2,820 2.53 111,680 NA NA 36,070 33.14
RP 36,395 33.43
Whampoa PAP 13,015 66.11 19,687 488 2.42 20,175 NA NA 6,343 32.22
NSP 6,672 33.89
Yuhua PAP 14,081 66.87 21,058 530 2.46 21,588 NA NA 7,104 33.74
SDP 6,977 33.13

Post GE 2011
Aljunied
- Cherian George: Low Thia Kiang wins big. What next?
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The PAP’s Waterloo in Aljunied
- Geek Is The New Black: Breaking The GRC Stronghold
- The Kent Ridge Common: What will happen to George Yeo?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: WP wins Aljunied GRC: PAP has to reform or else..
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Loss of Foreign Minister
- Youtube: Workers’ Party supporters celebrate their victory

Potong Pasir
- Alvinology: A Post Dedicated to Mr and Mrs Chiam See Tong and My Fellow Potong Pasir Residents
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: My 6 hour tour of duty as a polling agent

Marine Parade
- The Satay Club: Bittersweet victory for SM Goh
- Rachel Zeng:
Tin Pei Ling’s entry into Parliament: An insult to Singaporean politics

Sengkang West
- choongyong.com: Many reasons to be happy

Joo Chiat
- Yee Jenn Jong: My journey continues on
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Be afraid, very afraid PAP [Thanks A]

Bloggers Say
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Groundwork, good candidates and consistent branding
- Siew Kum Hong: What next for the PAP?
- Sgpolitics.net: WP establishes itself as Singapore’s premier opposition party
- Sgpolitics.net: GE 2011 roundup and analysis
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Election Results : Joy, Sadness and Optimism
- Words of the Cze: General Election 2011
- Politics in Singapore: GE 2011: Preliminary Analysis
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: It’s May 8th 2011 and it is a Brand New Singapore!
- My Political Soapbox: If you have no shadows then you’re not standing in the light
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: A small step for Democracy in Singapore. 7th May 2011 is a date to remember.
- motochan: Singapore Elections 2011 – Results
- kean bon: In all, 60.14%
- The Satay Club: Election results: Big swing against
- Mr Wang Says So: What Do You Think of the Election Results?
- Blogging for Myself: Elections: Singapore Lost
- My Singapore News: The daft Singaporeans voted
- Singapore Sojourn: A Bigger Red Dot [Thanks Roger]
- Where Bears Roam Free: GRC no longer safe haven for PAP
- I’m getting personal: My Thoughts on the GE2011
- Political Writings: GE 2011: A Fair Result, But Not Necessarily A Good Result
- Musings From the Lion City: Not A Watershed
- Too Many Thoughts: Fuck yeah, Aljunied
- Singapore Life and Times: Extreme Results
- funny little world: To all PAP voters..
- visakan veerasamy: The Elections are over… Now what?
- why liddat?: where do we go from here?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Will the PAP listen?
- pressrun.net: Singapore 2011 election results compared with 2006 results

The Noose
- Yahoo: WP wins Aljunied GRC, makes key breakthrough
- Yahoo: We fought a principled fight: SDP’s Vincent
- Reuters: Singapore’s PAP retains power; opposition makes gains
- Bloomberg: Singapore’s Lee Retains Power With Smallest Vote Margin Since Independence
- AP: Singapore’s ruling party wins parliamentary majority in election, but opposition makes gains
- The Age: Singapore opposition makes election breakthrough

Pre GE 2011 Results
Polling Day
- Sam’s thoughts: Quoted: Young Faces Battle it out in Opposition Stronghold
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: How and when did you decide on your vote choice?
- Cherian George: Will a GRC fall tonight?
- The Gigamole Diaries: I am proud of you, Singapore
- Blogging for Myself: Elections: There will be no happy outcomes
- The Kent Ridge Common: Thoughts from a first-time voter
- Lemniscates are Forever: Singapore General Elections through the eyes of an air-con serviceman
- The Art Of Dumbspeak: T minus 6 hours: The Swing-Voting Middle Class
- Dawn Yang’s Blog: Singapore General Elections
- Singapore Notes: Tears Or Jeers
- Molitics: On a PAP Victory
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: The Power of 9
- My Way: Taking A Stand
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Forum on election prospect (Cherian Goerge, Melvin Yong)
- Tay Lim Tin: Open Letter from a Singaporean Son

The Noose
- The Kent Ridge Common: Response to Guardian’s Article on Singapore Elections
- pressrun.net: Unesco cites Singapore blogs, raps mainstream media
- Unesco: Professional Journalistic Standards and Code of Ethics: Singapore
- Youtube: Official Compliant By NSP to Election Board
- Scoop News: UN’s Human Rights Review of Singapore
- Free Malaysia Today: Singapore turns a new page in history
- Yahoo: Time to cast the ballots
- AFP: Opposition hopes for boost as Singapore votes
- The Jakarta Post: Why the 2011 Singapore election is worth watching


Source: Michelle

Daily SG: 7 May 2011

Now we wait…

Aljunied
- Void Deck FB: Once More into the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More (WP Rally Field Raport) [Thanks tvd]
- Think Happiness: Aljunied Resident On His Vote Today
- Molitics: George Yeo’s Promise to Transform PAP a Worry
- SpotlightOnSingapore: George Yeo: reform of PAP but just rhetoric
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Is BG Yeo an honourable man?
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: GE2011 – My emotional night before cooling down

Raffles Place Lunchtime Sorry Rally
- Rachel Zeng: Apologies that mean nothing

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- The Satay Club: Fighting the fear factor
- Singapore Notes: How The Ballot Is Abused
- TOC: NSP makes complaint to Elections Dept over Tin Pei Ling Facebook posting
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Emotion over Logic?

Housing
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Hougang constituency 4-room flats retain value well
- Singapore Life and Times: The door is that way
- My Singapore News: Mah Bow Tan still insists HDB is affordable
- Pataya Mail: Chinese buyers taking Singapore property prices to a new high

Transportation
- Ravi Philemon: CAN! appreciate Sylvia Lim

Healthcare
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Need for Change in Healthcare System

Before you vote..
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Choosing between a small world and a bigger one
- onesingaporean: Remorse must come with substance – and only you, the voter, can ensure that
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Housing, Income inequality, and GRC: Vote wisely
- Molitics: Give Yourself, not the PAP, a Chance
- Blogging for Myself: On the eve of Polling Day
- Figuring how faith fits into this world: Pre- and Post- Singapore General Elections : Three Options for Consideration
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Remember Our Pledge today..
- Chapter Two: Reload: Too little, too late
- Quirkychic: It’s a hard, hard decision
- Senang Diri: Election Watch: The day after tomorrow
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Before You Cast Your Ballot
- my blog my life: 1 more day to polling day
- Illusio: One final question for GE2011
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Vote for the future of Singapore
- funny little world: I have never felt more Singaporean.
- My Littile Corner: Are we a bunch of NATO people?
- Gwee Li Sui FB: SINGAPORE DREAMS TONIGHT!
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: The future of singapore depends on your vote

Bloggers say
- Singapore Notes: Burning Questions
- My Singapore News: PAP may pay for these cavalier statements
- Molitics: Does PAP Administrator Want Khaw Boon Wan Out of Parliament??
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Time to Reflect and to Cool off on the Future of Singapore’s Political Future
- Flying Low: Why only now?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP: With candidates like these, who needs enemies?
- The Satay Club: Singapore goes to the polls
- Bobo Baroque: Change
- ex Chersonesus Aurea: Best and worst moments of the GE campaign
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Volunteering to be an Polling Agent and a Counting Agent
- SGEntrepreneurs: Startups Capitalize On Singapore General Elections 2011
- Gwee Li Sui FB: What will you be doing after you vote on Polling Day?
- A useful guide to knowing your MP’s: My mission is to pluck MP’s from obscurity and salute their contributions to the nation.

The Noose
- Yahoo: Singapore, it’s over to you
- The Star: Singaporeans worry about reprisal after polls
- The Star: Young and restless Singaporeans
- The Star: Pressure mounts on PAP [Thanks G]
- The Star: Time to cast the ballots
- The Guardian: Singapore elections marked by online buzz of discontent [Thanks G]
- Bloomberg: Singapore Poised for Record Turnout as Voters Weigh Lee Against Opposition
- Radio Australia: Diverse political landscape emerging in Singapore
- Time: As Singapore Gets Ready to Vote, New Media Amplifies Voice of Opposition
- AFP: Polls open in Singapore general election
- BBC: Singapore election: Young voters could be the key
- The Australian: Poll will sling Singapore in new direction
- AlJazeeraEnglish Youtube: 101 East: Singapore elections
- CNN: Singapore’s election and Facebook

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: One of Their Own – A community asks for a second chance

Daily SG: 6 May 2011

Singapore General Election 2011

Cooling Off Day: Friday 6 May 2011
Polling Day: Saturday 7 May 2011


- Google Maps: Singapore GE 2011 Rally Venues [via Ahmad in Taiwan]

Tomorrow is polling day. Vote Wisely!

Aljunied
- The Enquirer: Aljunied: A painful choice
- pressrun.net: PAP has to be transformed: George Yeo
- TOC: The slowly-hoisted dream of Aljunied
- The Satay Club: Did you do your part for Singapore in Aljuneid?
- Singapore Notes: You Have To Repent
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Battle for Aljunied: vote for opposition
- The Enquirer: People’s power at Aljunied rally
- TOC: Letters to TOC (Part 3)
- Singapore Short Stories: Workers’ Party Rally on 5 May 2011: Towards a First World Parliament!
- Singapore 2025: Aljunied GRC: Pritam Singh – Rally Speeches
- WP: Response to PAP accusations that WP is against upgrading
- WP: 5 May 2011 – Rally Speech by Low Thia Khiang
- WP: 5 May 2011 – Rally Speech by Chen Show Mao
- Youtube: WP’s Sylvia Lim at Aljunied GRC rally, May 5
- Youtube: WP’s Pritam Singh at Aljunied GRC rally, May 5
- Youtube: WP’s Chen Show Mao at Aljunied GRC rally, May 5
- Youtube: Yahoo! Singapore: Workers’ Party candidates recite the pledge


Source: The Sketch Times

Raffles Place Lunchtime Sorry Rally
- Sgpolitics.net: An apology that embodies no substance — PM Lee
- Molitics: PM Lee’s Sorry Track Record
- Think Happiness: New compact or script doubtful
- 野人俱乐部: Prof Chua cuts to the GE2011 Chase
- pressrun.net: Sorry, but we are more often right than wrong: PM Lee
- The Satay Club: Opposition reacts to PM Lee’s apology
- The Satay Club: A new, cuddly PAP?
- Flying Low: Saying Sorry
- All I Want To Say Is: We Are Sorry, PM Lee. [Thanks Anibodi]


Source: My sketchbook

SDP CBD lunchtime Rally
- Youtube: SDP’s Vincent Wijeysingha at CBD lunchtime rally, May 5
- Youtube: SDP’s Michelle Lee at CBD lunchtime rally, May 5
- Youtube: SDP’s Tan Jee Say at CBD lunchtime rally, May 5
- Youtube: SDP’s Alec Tok, CBD lunchtime rally
- Youtube: Guest speaker Prof Paul Tambyah at the SDP lunchtime rally, 5 May

Sembawang
- Youtube: SDP’s Vincent Wijeysingha
- Youtube: James Gomez

Jurong
- Sgpolitics.net: Real tears, real sincere tears from Nicole Seah
- The Satay Club: ‘We need a Government with a heart’
- Youtube: NSP Rally – Nicole Seah on 6th May 2011 speech – pt 1 part 2


Source: The Sketch Times

Mountbatten
- TOC: Mrs Jeannette Chong Aruldoss – the Everyday Superwoman

Potong Pasir
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: Chiam See Tong has given Potong Pasir a History, a Heritage and a Memory
- An Ivylicious Life: My Hero – Mr. Chiam See Tong

Tampines
- Singapore Alternatives: Response to Mah Bow Tan

West Coast
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: My Singapore

Moulmein Kallang
- Memories Archipelago: Final Day of Campaigning (WP Moulmein-Kallang GRC)

Tanjong Pagar
- TOC: Letter from Tanjong Pagar GRC

Sengkang West
- choongyong.com: Who is Koh Choong Yong? Why vote for him and WP?

Joo Chiat
- Yee Jenn Jong: Thank you, dear supporters

Misc Rally Articles
- The Satay Club: Rally roundup: Day seven

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- TOC: PAP leaflets a “cheap attempt to frighten voters” : WP
- Very Fine Commentary: The intolerance you teach me

Healthcare
- The Gigamole Diaries: Associate Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah’s speech at the SDP rally
- Blogging for Myself: PAP taking us for a ride
- Singapore M.D.: Doctors and Politics VI – Fisking Prof Tambyah’s speech
- Singapore M.D.: Doctors And Politics VII
- Singapore Notes: Reprise Of The $8 Heart Bypass

Housing
- De Leviathan @ SG: Minister Mah had not address Profits for BTO Flats and the “Ballooning” Land Costs
- Singapore Watch: How to make HDB housing affordable (Part 2)
- Where Bears Roam Free: Parodox of Asset Enhancement

The Father, The Son and The Peanut Goh
- TOC: Voting and an outline of PAP’s performance in recent years
- TOC: TOC Campaign Roundup: PAP’s chaotic campaign staggers towards finish line
- TOC: How PAP has failed as Governments with Total Defence as KPI
- Very Fine Commentary: Men in white? Seriously
- Words of the Cze: The People’s Action Party 2011
- Moh Hon Meng FB: In defence of the PAP
- Thetwophilo Blog: LKY’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy [Thanks yl]

Cooling Off
- Sgpolitics.net: Reflect on the issues and vote wisely for our future
- The Blue Sweater: Some Questions
- Majulah!: What to consider on Cooling Off Day?
- Ravi Philemon: People will vote against PAP’s arrogance
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: See you on 8 May 2011…
- TOC: Your Vote, Your Values
- TOC: There is more at stake than we think
- TOC: Vote for the future
- TOC: Vote for diversity, not division
- TOC: Looking back on five years
- TOC: Vote for the future
- TOC: The 9 Paradoxes of Patriotism in Singapore
- TOC: Dreams of a 61-year old Singaporean
- Fearfully Opinionated: Final Thoughts and Goodbye
- Icarus Flew Too High: End the PAP system of patronage
- the paradoX files: GE103: Stand Together, ‘Deconstruct’ the Government
- Singapore Dino: Now that the rallies are over..
- My Political Soapbox: I pray today, on the 5th of May.
- My Singapore News: Why a need for a Cooling Off day?
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Cooling off day
- mrbrown: Welcome to Cooling Off Day!

Bloggers say
- Empty Vessel: How did we become like this?
- TOC: Have you the courage?
- TOC: It is the Civil Service, Stupid
- The Satay Club: What track record, exactly?
- On Nation and State: The Electoral Guide : What to watch for on Polling Day
- New Asia Republic: Cynics should vote for the Opposition (Part 3)
- Blogging for Myself: 87 vs 0: A divided Singapore
- Very Fine Commentary: Why the PAP will win this election
- New Nation: Man kept out of two elections because he was homeless
- flaneurose: Voting along municipal lines: Penny-wise, Pound Foolish
- AirKosong.com: BN for Malaysia, PAP for Singapore
- In the Beginning was the Logos: Confessions of a Repentent Libertarian; Or Why I reject the Free market Worldview
- Mr Wang Says So: GE 2011: Why You Mustn’t Believe Everything You Read on the Internet
- Just Jewel: Even harder truths
- TOC: I vote for Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: Your SG Elections Thoughts in 3 Lines
- Very Fine Commentary: The undercurrents are shifting
- The Thinking Fish Tank: The 7 Kinds of Singaporean Voters
- Arra’s World: An Open Letter To Our Foreign And PR Friends
- Cherry Magazine: my observations on singapore’s general elections
- Lee Seng Wai FB: Regardless of the election outcome, I am worried for Singapore.
- Daryl Yong FB: The Dilemma for our Democracy
- Daryl Yong FB: My Thoughts on GE2011
- Fish Koh Jie Yu FB: What an informed voter should really know
- visakan veerasamy: Xiaxue, why you so liddat? A serious response to “Vote Wisely”.
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: British book makers
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Tan Kin Lian for Singapore President?
- Insane Polygons: CRAPTIONS
- Singapore Notes: Where In The World Is The Polling Card
- Maruah: Letter to Elections department on voting procedures for visually-handicapped Singaporeans
- Muruah: MARUAH launches survey on polling experience in GE2011

The Noose
- funny little world: TNP, still buay pai seh.
- The Temasek Review: Melvin Singh continues to twist and turn about Dr Chee’s fictitious protest march
- The Temasek Review: Did TNP editor Melvin Singh fabricate Michelle Lee’s comments to smear SDP?
- Voted With My Feet: An open letter to the Straits Times re Zengkun Feng [Thanks Tan]
- The Kent Ridge Common: Overview of the Yale-NUS College Reactions: Motivated by Professor Miller’s Article
- CNNGo: Charlene Fang: Why this Singapore General Election is important
- Asian Correspondent: Singapore’s most ‘Liked’: Is Nicole Seah rise more than a protest vote?
- anilnetto.com: Singapore general election: Democracy rising
- Human Rights Watch: Singapore: UN Rights Body Should Press for Fundamental Freedoms
- WSJ: Singapore’s ‘Accountability Election’
- WSJ: Singapore Vote Seen as Its Fiercest Yet
- WSJ: In Singapore, Faith Debate Simmers
- WSJ: A New Wind Blows in the Lion City
- NYT: In Singapore, Political Campaigning Goes Viral
- Bloomberg: Wealth Gap Weighs on Lee’s Ruling Party Before Singapore Vote

说了再建(HDB组屋)

Daily SG: 5 May 2011

Singapore 2011 General Elections
12 – 3pm Lunch Time Rally – SDP
Boat Quay next to UOB Plaza

Aljunied GRC – WP
Serangoon Stadium, 33 Yio Chu Kang Road

Sembawang GRC – SDP
Woodlands Stadium, 1 Woodlands St 13

Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC – SPP
Bishan Stadium, 7 Bishan St 14

West Coast GRC – RP
Clementi Stadium, 10 West Coast Walk

Jurong GRC – NSP
Open field beside Chinese Garden Lake, 1 Chinese Garden Road

Ang Mo Kio GRC – RP
Yio Chu Kang Stadium, 210 Ang Mo Kio Ave 9

Aljunied GRC – PAP
Open field bounded by Ubi Road 3, Ubi Ave 1 and Ubi Ave 2

Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC – PAP
Toa Payoh Stadium, 297, Lor 6 Toa Payoh

Tampines GRC – PAP
Tampines Stadium, 25 Tampines St 82

Potong Pasir SMC – PAP
Open field bounded by Upp Serangoon Road, Meyappa Chettiar & Potong Pasir Ave 1

Whampoa SMC – PAP
Open field along Jalan Tenteram near Blk 65A JTC factory

Bukit Panjang SMC – PAP
Open field opposite Blk 513 Jelapang Road bounded by Segar Road, Bukit Panjang Ring Road

East Coast GRC – PAP
Bedok Stadium, 1 Bedok North St 2

Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC – PAP
Open field beside Pasir Ris Park Carpark C, bounded by Pasir Ris Drive 3, Pasir Ris Green and Sungei Api Api

All rallies start at 7 pm and ends at 10 pm

Raffles Place Lunchtime Rally
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Timing of PM Lee’s Apology
- Mr Wang Says So: The Apology from PM Lee Hsien Loong
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PM Lee : I’m sorry..
- The Kent Ridge Common: Lunchtime Defence
- New Nation: Prime Minister apologises, but nothing has changed
- Think Happiness: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister
- Nomadism: About PM Mr Lee HL’s apologies..
- Insane Polygons: Apology Not Accepted.
- Singapore Life and Times: Stand down
- Today’s Mostly Cloudy: Sorry PM, too late to say sorry lah!
- Where Bears Roam Free: When PM apologises, it means PAP has run out of ideas
- Freak Thoughts: PM (PAP) apologizes over past mistakes
- Sgpolitics.net: Transcript of PM Lee Hsien Loong’s apology

Aljunied
- Mr Wang Says So: The Aljunied Mother & Son Story
- Singapore Notes: It Is The Song Of Angry Men
- The Rot Within: Yet another post on Aljunied
- Gerald Giam: 5 Reasons to vote for Workers’ Party this election
- Youtube: WP’s Low Thia Khiang at Aljunied GRC rally, May 4 (Part 1) (Part 2)
- Youtube: WP’s Pritam Singh at Aljunied GRC rally, May 4
- Youtube: WP’s Chen Show Mao at Aljunied GRC rally, May 4

Sembawang
- TOC: Change starts with something small: Vincent Wijeysingha
- Jacob 69er: SDP’s Dr James Gomez unveils Sembawang GRC Re-Generation Plan as campaign ends today with two SDP rallies
- Sgpolitics.net: Transcript of Dr Vincent Wijeysingha’s rally speech on 4 May
- Youtube: Alec Tok in Mandarin (1) (2)
- Youtube: SDP’s John Tan at Sembawang GRC rally, May 4
- Youtube: SDP’s Vincent Wijeysingha at Sembawang GRC rally, May 4

Tampines
- Youtube: NSP’s Nicole Seah at Tampines GRC rally, May 4
- Youtube: NSP’s Goh Meng Seng at Tampines GRC rally, May 4
- Youtube: 3 Scenarios for Singapore after 2011 General Election [Tan Kin Lian addresses the crowd at the NSP rally]

Potong Pasir
- Youtube: SPP’s Benjamin Pwee at Potong Pasir SMC rally, May 4
- Youtube: SPP’s Lina Chiam at Potong Pasir SMC rally, May 4

Pasir Ris Pungogol
- Youtube: SDA’s Harminder Pal Singh at Pasir Ris-Punggol rally, May 4

Punggol East
- Thinker, Writer, Magus, Man: Teo Chee Hean avoids TOC, Michael Palmer almost gets away
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Workers’ Party Rally at Punggol East SMC (3 May 2011)
- The Itch To Write: My 3rd speech at Punggol East SMC!

Bishan Toa Payoh
- Sgpolitics.net: Chiam might repeat 1991 electoral feat in Bishan Toa-Payoh
- Winter Is Coming: Ode to Chiam See Tong: A Lion of Singapore

East Coast
- TOC: An important lesson in National Education
- Yee Jenn Jong: Text of my second rally speech – Bedok Stadium 30 April 2011

Bukit Panjang
- TOC: Rain lifts spirits in the heartlands

Chua Chu Kang
- TOC: NSP to PAP: where were you when S’poreans needed you most?

West Coast
- Hun Boon’s Blog: Reform Party (RP) rally at Clementi Stadium on 4 May – Kenneth Jeyaretnam

Holland Bukit Timah
- Singapore Notes: Surprised By Michelle

Radin Mas
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Radin Mas SMC – Poor State of MSCP (Under PAP Management)

Sengkang West
- choongyong.com: Final Day of Campaigning

Joo Chiat
- Yee Jenn Jong: Text of my third rally speech – Sengkang Open Field 3 May 2011

Misc Rally Articles
- TOC: Exclusive TOC pictures from the rallies – 3 May

Opposition Parties
- Now you know election special: EP9 Dr. Vincent Wijeysingha

Gutter politics, gerrymandering, pork barrels, mud slings, character assassinations, FUD.. Welcome to SG GE 2011!
- My Political Soapbox: Of Pseudo-Propositions and Slumdog Millionaires
- The Kent Ridge Common: PAP was once an opposition party and ‘co-driver’ too
- Chapter Two: Reload: Do the right thing and say sorry
- TOC: My vote is against fear
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Did anyone online slander Cynthia Phua?
- TOC: Aljunied GRC Facebook site alleges defamation?
- Singapore Notes: Even Dogs Hate Him
- SpotlightOnSingapore: WP deconstructs pillars of government? An absurd notion
- TOC: Hougang resident angered by Eric Low’s “slum” remark

Healthcare
- New Asia Republic: Deciding which drug deserves subsidy [Thanks D]
- TOC: Impact on Nursing and Healthcare — Singapore GE 2011 reflection
- Singapore M.D.: Doctors And Politics IV
- Singapore M.D.: Shadowy Health Plan
- SDP: NUH prof. among panel of doctors guiding SDP’s health policies

Housing
- Singapore Watch: How to make HDB housing affordable (Part 1)

Minister Salaries
- mark remarked: Singapore Political Pay Packets

The cost of living
- pressrun.net: Singapore median monthly household income up from S$4,946 in 2008 to S$5,000 in 2010

Other Issues
- Ray of Light: Questions on support mechanism for caregivers of the mentally ill always go unanswered: A plea to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

LHL on Facebook
- motochan: Questions for PM Lee Hsien Loong

The Father, The Son and The Peanut Goh
- funny little world: My first PAP rally.
- New Asia Republic: How do PAP ministers fare? (An Idiot’s Guide) [Thanks D]
- Singapore Notes: Liar, Liar, Bum On Fire
By Muruah Singapore: Your Vote is Your Voice

Bloggers say
- Ahmad in Taiwan: “I was wrong” says ex-PAP supporter
- New Nation: A former Young PAP volunteer speaks
- TOC: Tin Pei Ling vs Nicole Seah and…Chen Show Mao? The rise of the counter-elite in Singapore
- New Asia Republic: Political Economy, Taxes and Economic Realities [Thanks D]
- A Singaporean says: “Majulah SINGAPURA!” is what we sing [Thanks sp]
- New Nation: Popping your election cherry
- Trapper’s Swamp: There is more at stake than we think
- Arra’s World: One Man, One Vote: Weighing Out A Coalition Government
- The Crystal Bawl: Singapore elections – from apathy to anger
- My Singapore News: The Growth Formula of PAP
- Alamak: Here’s What I’ll Vote For. What About You?
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Tin Pei Ling – How She Managed to Generate so much Hate
- Singapore Election Watch: Letter to President and PAP
- The Lycan Times: The Aljunied Dilemma
- my blog my life: 3 more days to election..
- Blogging for Myself: Elections: Don’t be stupid, it’s not about you
- The Temasek Review: An Open Letter to Leaders of Alternative Parties
- My Little Corner: Policies should target People first
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: What happens if the PAP loses a few GRCs?
- Food fuels me to talk: In defence of the PAP
- The Kent Ridge Common: ‘Even God is voting opposition’
- Musings From the Lion City: Weather Comedy
- mrbrown: GE2011 Repent! Tur Kwa Wallpaper for you
- the mrbrown show: the stall next door (YouTube audio version)

The Noose
- Zengkun Feng FB: Defending the Straits Times
- Goh Yi Han FB: Response to ‘Defending The Straits Times’ [Thanks yh]
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: New Media: Old media, stop being PAP’s dog
- The Chronicle Review: Yale in Singapore: Lost in Translation
- Reuters: Singapore PM makes rare apology as election campaign heats up
- Yahoo: PM Lee’s apology comes too late: Opposition
- Yahoo: Several parts of S’pore hit by flash floods
- The Star: People want social progress
- The Star: An old problem for Singapore
- CNBC: Singapore’s Fast Growth Creating Rich-Poor Divide?

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe In Second Chances: Letters from Vui Kong – The Third Letter : A Changed Heart

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5 Jan 1926 - 30 Sep 2008

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