The Singapore Daily

A Vote for Change
- Words Of the Cze: Regular
- Kaffein-Nated: Totally disconnect
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Bad Analogy Chen Show Mao
- self-contained: in defence of Chen Show Mao’s speech
- Think Happiness: Make Parliament More Accessible
- Blogging for Myself: Government volte face on social mobility?
- Singapore 2025: Interview (Malay) with Radio Warna 94.2 FM
- Singapore Alternatives: Reply from ICA
- New Asia Republic: East Coast GRC, another Aljunied déjà vu?
- TOC: David Mason’s letter: A most dangerous idea
- Senang Diri: Sing Govt’s pledge for more openness requires rewiring the system’s sensitivity to feedback, removal of vindictive mindset for views it dislikes

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: SLA director cheating the Authority of $11.8 m
- Loh and Behold: Daily Ritual
- Alvinology: BBC News: Every Hour, There are 5 Births, 2 Deaths and 16 New Immigrants in Singapore
- sgentrepreneurs: Progress made, but Singapore government still micromanaging [Thanks Bernard!]
- [ insights, interests, intelligence ]: Our new norm
- Tan Kin Lian: Security at the airport
- Robin Ann Rheaume’s FB: Let’s stop selling animals in Singapore

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Washing Chopsticks: Taxi Driver Tales: We are not poor, but we are always in debt
- New Nation: Middle class: Realm of the living dead?
- Support site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Career Transition from Navy Regular to Media Industry

The Suicide Club
- mrbrown.com: So who’s going as Bedok Reservoir this Halloween?

CPF
- Alex Lew Yan Liang 刘彦良: Question on CPF loan for Housing

We are against capital punishment
- yawningbread at wordpress: But how many on death row?

Housing
- TOC: HDB gives woman in distress no good options

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Bloomberg: GIC Disclosed More Information in Reports Over 4 Years, Ng Says

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” — A particular CEO
- Reuters: SMRT posts 26 pct fall in Q2 net profit, outlook bleak

Infoblogamus
- ieatishootipost: Top Ten Things to Eat in Singapore: The Hawker Edition
- lesterchan.net: SingTel iPhone 4S Price Plans
- Publichouse: Lee Hoon Leong – grandfather of Lee Kuan Yew

Stuff
- funny little world: What sort of solution is the Malaysian Solution?
- The Atlantic: Why Is Yale Outsourcing a Campus to Singapore?

Sketches
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Economy stalled

October 31st, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

(Cartoon Credits: The Sketch Times)

A Vote for Change
- self-contained: in defence of Chen Show Mao’s speech
- Yahoo: Higher degree of intelligence at Parliament
- Kieran James: My interview with Mr Yaw Shin Leong, Workers’ Party MP for Hougang SMC (amended version)

This is Singapore. There is no free Press Speech
- Andrew Loh: PM Lee on new media
- TOC: TOC’s commitment to our readers
- Dotseng: regulating the internet chatter in Singapore?

Daily Disclosure
- Senang Diri: Bangkok floods: Impact on food security in Singapore
- Words of the Cze: Tight
- TOC: Singapore’s success: an observer’s concerns
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Curbing Problem Gambling In Singapore: Inadequate Present Strategies

Housing
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: HDB: “affordability” and “market-based land costs” redefined”?

Healthcare
- Yawning Bread: Amy Khor should talk about sex [NSFW]

Educating Our Youth
- TOC: Singaporean students should meet the competition, not fear it

We are against capital punishment
- Lianain Films: All My Preconceived Notions Went Away

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

A Vote for Change
- A Yummy Slice of Life: Electoral System Reform
- Dr Tan Cheng Bock: Presidential election needs more clarity:Alvin Yeo

Daily Disclosure
- Blogging for Myself: Voters had their bite, now the employers’ turn
- Singapore Notes: The Quest For More Information
- Convex Set: Economic Data Should Be Revealed to All
- Yawning Bread on WordPress: But how many on death row?
- TOC: Animal welfare and rights are not mere gestures
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Everything Also Complain: Only 6.9% of board members are women
- Arra’s World: The Relaionship Issue: Stop Pointing Fingers At Singaporean Women

Healthcare
- Ray of Light: CEL’s master plan : Where’s structural support for mentally ill, caregivers?

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: The most precious thing

Teo Chee Hean say so
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Open letters to Teo Chee Hean from ex-ISA detainee

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- SG-Quitters: Journey to Retirement – Chapter 2… How a school dropout emigrate to Canada [Thanks Wing]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- deadpris: Not Enough Foreign Workers in Singapore?

Tech
- SGEntrepreneurs: IDA will give you tax deductions to implement cloud computing

Stuff
- Political Writings: Stars & Stripes
- Harvard Political Review: Sizing Up Singapore [Thanks George]
- The Washington Times: Occupy Wall Street in chaos: Money disputes, freeloaders imperil protest

October 27th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

A Vote for Change
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Display of One-upmanship in Parliament
- Ravi Philemon: Minorities in Singapore and ancient China’s history
- TOC: Criticise only when you have alternativ​es?
- New Nation: 9 ways PAP can engage people online
- Publichouse: REACH needs a new chief
- Your SDP: Egalitarianism not just a fanciful idea
- CNN Go: Alexis Ong: Occupy Singapore failed miserably because we’re in Singapore

Daily Disclosure
- Reflections On Change: What the Unemployment Rate Means [Thanks James]
- The Temple of Thoughts: A Slap on the Wrist for SBS and SMRT
- Blinkymummy: The Lan Gaming Problem in Singapore
- Ray of Light: CEL’s master plan-2012-2016 : Is there a support plan for the mentally ill & their caregivers?
- Everything Also Complain: Punggol Waterway is like Venice
- Yours Truly Singapore: Conferment of Ford’s Theatre Lincoln medal to Mr Lee Kuan Yew
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Single Malay PMET: “I think the Singaporean girl is a overly practical creature”
- Andrew Loh: A new beginning…
- Today: Golf courses, not history, should make way

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: My Responses to the Same Ol’ Arguments

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Singapore Notes: The Media Re-Visited

CPF
- Singapore Sojourn: Lucky Or Not?

Infoblogamus
- TW and Jo’s Excellent Adventure: It’s been an AMAZING week

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Temasek’s StanChart bonds: No losers?

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Publichouse: More than a year’s wait for justice

377a
- Desparatebeep: Fallen Man and the Morally Upright and Very Clever Woman
- Publichouse: Kumar – Behind the dress and makeup

Stuff
- Quirkychic: Traipsing Around Tokyo [Day Three] – Ikebukukuro!
- A2ed.com: ‘Too poor to buy clothes, but we still want 6 children’

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

A Vote for Change
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Dispassionate View of Chen Show Mao’s Analogy
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Workers’ Party Skirmishes in the Opening of the 12th Parliament
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Criticking Amy Khor & Baey Yam Keng
- Blogging for Myself: PM elegant tribute to Mah Bow Tan
- Political Writings: Who Didn’t Speak in Parliament?
- Rachel Zeng’s Blog: An Interview with Singa Crew – Part 2
- Tan Jee Say: Heroes in Our Hearts – speech at JBJ Memorial 22 Oct 2011
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜 FB: A New Deal for Singapore: Response to President Tony Tan’s Address to Parliament on 12 October 2011
- Void Deck’s FB: NS, BUllshit and Deferment
- Kojakbt’s FB: University Education: Time for Govt to show it truly cares for Singaporeans
- New Asia Republic: 对牛弹琴，还是不值一提，幸福指数到底是什么？
- Yahoo: Low: Better, faster and perhaps cheaper ministers?
- InSing: Fajar Road market stallholders worry over rental hike
- The Star Online: Enter a new era of politics

Daily Disclosure
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: ISA Debate – Part II
- Ray of Light: Coping with chronic illness in a marriage – By Raymond Anthony Fernando
- funny little world: Advertising, Hits and Me
- Yawningbread: Beyond freedom of information lies open data
- Publichouse: Why are netizens so rude and angry?
- 海南日报: 从新加坡总统国宴说起

AWARE will be proud!
- New Nation: These Girlaxy gamers got no balls

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- TOC: Reconsider the criteria for hiring domestic workers

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- My Singapore News: Beware of a welfare state

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Juveniles on Death Row
- Publichouse: A matter of life and death

Educate Our Youth
- Convex Set: On Singapore’s Long Term Economic Viability: Tertiary Education in Science and Engineering
- Kiasu Parents: Learning Chinese: The Potato Way

#OccupyRafflesPlace with the brave faceless organisers
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Leads ‘Occupy’ rally Reluctance….

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

A Vote for Change
- Singapore 2025: Maiden Parliamentary Speech [Thanks for the mention!]
- Everything Also Complain: Bhutanese are not all happy people
- Political Writings : PAP: Stay Arrogant, Stay Clueless
- Blogging for Myself: PAP vs WP: Your narrative or mine?
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Tribute to a Passionate Patriot with Lofty Principles
- my blog my life: Call for foreign student cap at 10% per class
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Only One Singaporean PhD Student in NUS Economics Faculty!
- Yahoo: PM Lee calls for ‘more open approach’

Teo Chee Hean say so
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: ISA Debate – Stirring granny panties in soapy water
- TOC: MHA: Why the ISA? Why and when is the ISA used?
- Yahoo: Singapore defends security law as terror ‘shield’

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Question for Charles Chong
- Leong Sze Hian: CDCs should prep up for inflation

This is Singapore. There is no free Press Speech
- funny little world: Netizen? That’s not what my passport says…
- Gem Philip’s FB: The Game The MIW Plays Online
- New Asia Republic: Impending crunch on New Media?

Daily Disclosure
- Senang Diri: Israel traded 1,000 prisoners for one of its NSFs. What is the price of an SAF National Serviceman worth in a Gilad Shalit kidnapping scenario?
- Think Happiness: Empower Law Society if Government open
- The Gigamole Diaries: Bandwagons, clowns, whales and massgraves – perspecting the Alirio Melendez story

The Horse is White
- Yahoo: ‘Patrick Tan did not get preferential treatment during NS’

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Tuition That We May Have To Believe In

Infoblogamus
- sgentrepreneurs: Singapore YouTube site launched
- Borneo Post Online: Singapore businesses feel pressure from tightening of foreign hiring rules

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

A Vote for Change
- Blinkymummy: “君子”和而不同
- My Singapore News: The worrisome things said by opposition MPs
- Yawningbread: Jimmying Gini for political sell

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Temasek’s StanChart Bond Issue

#OccupyRafflesPlace with the brave faceless organisers
- Musings from the Lion City: Occupy Raffles Place?
- SEA Youth Say So: Occupy Southeast Asia [Part 1]: Singapore,Unoccupied

Daily Disclosure
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: Yue Yue: the bystander effect and spotlight fallacy
- Prata Politics: Mindef Gets It Again from AG
- journalism.sg: Feedback Chief calls on goverment to engage ‘rational’ websites

Strangers in a Strange Land
- nofearSingapore: Leaving no man behind- what Singapore can learn from Israel

Educate Our Youth
- Growing Your Tree of Prosperity: Why most of the time, it does not pay to be a Generalist.
- The Kent Ridge Common: Taking Ownership

Healthcare
- Void Deck’s FB: Our Healthcare Policies Attend C – Parliament Debates
- Singapore Notes: Myth Of The Three Ms

This is Singapore. There is no free (online) Press
- TOC: MICA’s new agendum for cyber control?

Infoblogamus
- Singapore’s Land Transport: Book a cab through a NFC-enabled phone

October 20th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Cedric Foo: Talking rubbish again
- angmohlian: The Government has a role to play too
- Patrick Lee Song Juan’s FB: Gerald Giam and Lawrene Wong in Parliament
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Why only 39.4 males are married compared to 1,000 unmarried men?
- Yawningbread: Walmart executives fall on their swords, Auditor-General’s report goes into black hole
- TOC: Government must be of the people, not just for the people
- Yahoo: Opposition MPs’ maiden speeches in Parliament

Daily Disclosure
- Alvinology: The Curious Case of Peng Yu from Nanjing (南京彭宇案) and China Society
- A new beginning: My thoughts on the 3 year old toddler, and why no one helped
- Where Bears Roam Free: Some professionals in psychiatric field madder than the patients they treat
- Everything Also Complain: Social media is the Wild Wild West of the Internet
- The Temple of Thoughts: Democracy Imperfect
- New Nation: Indifference? What indifference?

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Temasek: Where things can go wrong.
- Singapore Notes: Betting On The Bank

Transport Woes
- Yahoo: SMRT fined $200k for security lapse

Infoblogamus
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Online Scam: Free Starbucks $50 Gift Card

Sketches
- The Sketch Times: happy at whose expenses?

October 19th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” — A particular CEO
- Today: Solve the peak-hour train breakdowns

(Cartoon Credits: The Sketch Times)

#OccupyRafflesPlace with the brave faceless organisers
- Mathilda Dsilva’s FB: Harsh Truths: Sushi Bars, Main Street protests and 1945.
- Singapore Sojourn: Keeping Occupied
- mrbrown: L’infantile terrible of Singapore: Un-Occupy Raffles Place
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Passive Singaporeans Not Ready For Occupy Raffles Place?
- Sgpolitics.net: Wall Street versus Main Street: Singaporeans are facing the same problems

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- A Singaporean says: How to help the poorest (3)

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- journalism.sg: Internet Regulation: Dark Clouds Loom Over “Light Touch” Approach

Daily Disclosure
- Grace Fu’s FB: Women in Singapore : Scaling Greater Height
- My Singapore News: Pride in service
- New Nation: Big Brother the cause of low fertility rate
- Publichouse: They want me dead too
- ZB: 游润恬：新媒体成熟了吗？

A Vote for Change
- Small steps for Social PR: Lightning expected with little or no chance of happiness
- Singapore Notes: Happiness Is Not For Everyone
- Rachel Zeng’s Blog: AN INTERVIEW WITH SINGA CREW – PART 1
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s first world problems: quality of life and social security
- 否极泰来 Piji Tailai: For PAP, it is a mistake to let Chen Show Mao to sit in the Committee of Selection
- TOC: Who defines ‘democracy’?

Educate Our Youth
- Senang Diri: GCE A Level Exams: Pivotal period for young Singaporean students and SAF Scholar aspirants
- Yahoo: More S’poreans turn to private schools to get degrees

Infoblogamus
- EastCoastLife: Thimithi Firewalking Festival @ Sri Mariamman Temple

Sketches
- the digital consultant: This Week’s Cartoon
- SG-Quitters: “Occupy Rallies” Happening In Major Cities Around The World, Except Singapore

Stuff
- BBC: Joking again – Burma’s favourite comedian free [Thanks A]

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

#OccupyRafflesPlace with the brave faceless organisers
- Everything Also Complain: Occupy Raffles Place is a joke
- Blogging for Myself: Occupy Wall Street goes global
- My Singapore News: No show at Raffles Place
- Words of the Cze: Effort
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Occupy Raffles Place?…..Where got?
- funny little world: #OccupyRafflesPlace… thumbs up or down? [UPDATED]
- New Nation: Occupy Raffles Place fail
- TOC: Occupy Raffles Place – we’ll do it bigger and better next time
- Wall Street Journal: Protesters Fail to Occupy Singapore

A Vote for Change
- News Clips: ‘Policies are rational but politics is emotional’
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: What are the SPP, NSP and RP up to post GE?
- Yawningbread: Opinion polls – an asset to the democratic process
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Political Engagement In Singapore: Perfunctory Grassroots Activities Not The Way Forward
- Wilson Ho’s FB: Political Integrity or the lack of it?
- New Asia Republic: Is centrism the way to go in local politics?
- Publichouse: The credibility gap
- Yahoo: Dr Tan Cheng Bock urges MPs to stand by beliefs
- TOC: Apolitical: When Gen Y marks ‘X’

We are against capital punishment
- Kall Geez’s FB: My thoughts on this Yahoo death penalty piece

Educate Our Youth
- The Kent Ridge Common: Creative Education? An Analysis of Existing Architecture Education in Singapore
- funny little world: Tough Love

Housing
- Yours Truly Singapore: A case for non-interv​ention

Daily Disclosure
- A Thing (or Two) About Holly Jean: Being Public About Love
- Sze Zeng: The Church should be above politics?
- Everything Also Complain: Singaporeans sexting pictures of their genitals
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – Credit Card Fraud
- TOC: So many entrepreneurs, but where are the workers?
- Publichouse: Why build million dollar churches?

Pay to entitle yourself a Car
- Void Deck’s FB: More COE Shrinking Coming Right Up Your Ass
- Tan Kin Lian: Why bid for the car COE?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- InSing: Getai manager searching for missing singers

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: C Programming Creator Dennis Ritchie dies
- The Mind Game: Dennis Ritchie: More substance than style.
- Yu-Kym’s Blog: iOS5: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?

Infoblogamus
- Otterman Speaks: Mok Ly Yng on “Horsburgh Lighthouse: 160th anniversary” (Sat 15 Oct 2011)
- The Long and Winding Road: Where ‘seedless’ rambutan trees once grew
- Nanyang.com: 95%为工作弃大马公民权 去年6千人才入籍狮城

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

A Vote for Change
- Words Of The Cze: Try Harder
- Tan Jee Say’s FB: What did I tell J P Morgan?
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Political reasons why our government restricting graduate enrolment?
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Singapore.The Stagnant Society?

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Singapore Notes: Down And Out In Singapore And Other Countries

Housing
- Blinkymummy: If it’s about Nation and Rarity…
- My Singapore News: Govt decided to sell less landed properties to PRs
- Yahoo: MND flags two areas as possible new towns

Healthcare
- ISPOR Connections: Health Care System and Public Sector Drug Formulary in Singapore [Thanks A]
- TOC: Healthcare: who is subsidising whom?

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Do Not Stereotype “Neighbourhood” Schools In Singapore

Singapore in World Cup, in 2010 2014 2018 2022
- TOC: Sound Defeat Ends Lions’ Dreams

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Sojourn: Little Known Singapore Experts [Thanks Roger!]
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Waz this Institute of Policy Studies?
- Diary of A Singaporen Mind: Special Treatment does not earn respect….
- Where Bears Roam Free: Americans’ fetish for Lee Kuan Yew

Infoblogamus
- Quirkychic: Traipsing Around Tokyo [Day one]
- Vicky’s Writings: Dick Lee- The Adventures of the Mad Chinaman Encore
- Singapore Actually: Pure Vegetarian Meal: Murugan Idli Shop at Syed Alwi Road
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: YOU are invited to design a new logo for Singapore River
- New Nation: New Nation is not your run-of-the-mill news blog
- InSing: Netizens voice dismay over MRT overcrowding
- Today: It is not that Singaporeans are choosy about their jobs [Thanks A]

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

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Manpower Blog: Singaporeans @ the Heart of our Workforce
- TOC: Can MOM keep its promise to put Singaporeans first?
- Yahoo: Construction firm boss inflates number of S’pore workers
- ZB: 新加坡人怎么会失业？

Educate Our Youth
- Cheow Yong Jian’s FB: Proposed grading scheme?

CPF
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: Tan Chuan Jin on CPF: Lucky Tan’s critique

Daily Disclosure
- Growing Your Tree of Prosperity: Write-Camp Presentation Idea #1 : Sustainable Artistry
- My Little Corner: Who says subsidies doesn’t help in increasing birth rates?
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Assure, Ensure, I’m Not So Sure
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜’s FB: Relationship
- POSKOD.SG: LETTER FROM SG: Our Gurkhas
- New Nation: Stray dog culling not a pretty sight

A Vote for Change
- Leong Sze Hian: Does higher education equal to higher pay?
- 否极泰来 Piji Tailai: 回头草的余香，26年后再见新小贩中心
- TOC: Police investigates private forum under Public Order Act

We are against capital punishment
- Publichouse: Activists commemorate day against death penalty
- Yahoo: Singapore to decide on Yong’s clemency appeal

Singapore in World Cup, in 2010 2014 2018 2022
- Mervin UtdforUtd Tan’s FB: Big dreams, little steps: A letter by Bernard Yeo

Infoblogamus
- EastCoastLife: Changing of Guards @ The Istana – WW
- Yahoo: George Yeo named senior adviser to Kuok Group

October 13th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Peak Oil: Lee Kuan Yew and the Price of Food
- Balderdash: ACS and Rich Kids
- New Asia Republic: “Fat tax” is a recipe for unfairness

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Has Project Work In Junior Colleges Outlived Its Usefulness?

CPF
- Tan Kin Lian: CPF – my views
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: CPF : New Face, New Media, Old Ideas….

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Healthcare: Who is subsidising whom?
- CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA: Singapore General Elections 2011: Not an Internet Election? Who are you kidding?
- Sgpolitics.net: Why opposition parties should speak up on ISA and human rights issues
- New Nation: Occupy Raffles Place
- Yahoo: ‘Allow sufficient opportunity for opposition’

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Anti-Death Penalty Lobbyists, wanna lobby for Tariq Aziz?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Second Chances’ Forum: Rethinking the Death Penalty

Infoblogamus
- Good Morning Yesterday: Project Neighbourhood @ Okto Channel
- New Nation: Circle Line train commuters transported from desert to Arctic and back
- TOC: President Tony Tan: New media must be used constructively

Sketches
- SG-Quitters: Coming Movie on Singapore, “1965″
- Spore Says Political Cartoon: Cannot chat on skype meh..??

Stuff
- Al Jazeera English: The class warfare the rich don’t understand (Thanks Estee)
- Voice of America: Mainland Chinese Drawn to Singapore, Tensions Follow

October 12th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Vote for Change
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Speeches from CNBC.com Speaker’s Corner
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Internet politics myth-busting, part 2
- Ravi Philemon: Will WP raise the ISA in parliament?
- TOC: Of politics and policy, canvassing and engagement

Daily Disclosure
- BaraccudaBen: Public transport: All the Wrong Fixes
- Where Bears Roam Free: Singapore’s historical links with Sun Yet Sen is overplayed
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Fallow becomes a field
- TOC: The Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall: Travesty or inspiration?
- New Asia Republic: 成也萧何败也萧何，新加坡的中文华语何去何从？

CPF
- Leong Sze Hian: Financial Planning: Are you ready?
- Tan Chuan-Jin’s FB: Looking at CPF from the other side…

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- A Singaporean says: How to help the poorest (2)

Infoblogamus
- The Star Online: Foreign maids snubbing Singapore
- Worldcrunch: Singapore Betting Hall At Center Of Italian Soccer’s Match-Fixing Scandal

October 11th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP: Missed one, bagged one?
- Singapore Notes: We Should Be So Grateful

Educate Our Youth
- The Kent Ridge Common: Will the USP turn into a Middle-Upper Socioeconomic Cluster?
- Yahoo: NUS prof investigated for research fraud

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Ironies of the reopening of revolutionary’s villa
- Balderdash: The Lion King (Stage) and Racial Politics
- Sam’s Thoughts: Are Singaporeans who are easily offended more equal than others?
- Everything Also Complain: Big strollers blocking MRT entrances
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Should New Citizens And Women Serve National Service?
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Holding slut-callers to account

A Vote for Change
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s Internal Security Act, opposition politics and financial transparency
- I’m getting personal: Freedom and Liberalism in an “Islamic State”
- Furry Brown Dog: The naivete of those desperate to see change where little exists
- Sgpolitics.net: Why is the government so afraid of ex-detainees?
- Yawningbread on WordPress: Internet politics myth-busting, part 1
- Chen Show Mao’s FB: Journey back to Singapore

Infoblogamus
- My Little Corner: Rest of the Places of Interests Near Circle Line MRT Stations

Stuff
- New Nation: Hitler’s upset that Jobs died

R.I.P Steve Jobs
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – Steve Jobs
- TOC: Steve Jobs and iSingapore

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

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- A Singaporean says: How to help the poorest (1)
- TOC: ‘I do not have enough to buy food’ – poverty in the land of plenty

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Boon Lay Becoming another Sungei Road Flea Market or Thieves’ Market?
- Loh and Behold: Illegitimi Non Carborundum
- Publichouse: In Singapore, gaming is becoming serious business

Educate Our Youth
- New Asia Republic: Time for our universities to take a leaf out of Imperial College’s books?

A Vote for Change
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Unstable Employment and fall in fertility…
- Publichouse: A preview of Parliament

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: A New Parliament on World Death Penalty Day

The Gospel of Harry
- InSing: Don’t give up Chinese language, says Lee Kuan Yew

Infoblogamus
- Remember Singapore: Money Never Sleeps – A Brief History of Banking in Singapore
- lancerlord: of jamie lim wins tnp new face 2011

October 8th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Words Of The Cze: Mine
- Singapore 2B: Welfarism for Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: How many white people in your group?

A Vote for Change
- Prata Politics: Hong Kong Maids become Honky Residents! Singapore How?
- Ravi Philemon: Kudos to TIn Pei Ling
- Publichouse: Quality more important than quantity

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Tuition We Don’t Have to Believe In

Daily Disclosure
- Alvinology: International Sandwich chain Subway vs Singapore’s Subway Niche
- My Singapore News: Ethnic pride ethnic shame
- New Nation: Who on Earth is Dudley Au?

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SPH: Another home for ex-ministers?

Great Singapore Floods
- Wild Singapore: Are porous roads the way to deal with floods in Singapore?

Infoblogamus
- Cooler Insights: Sail on the Maritime Experiential Museum & Aquarium!

R.I.P Steve Jobs
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Steve Jobs: 1955 – 2011
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Another Path
- Anita Kapoor: Dear Mr Jobs
- Singapore Notes: Remembering Steve Jobs
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Steve Jobs : The Amazing Turnaround….and Spirit of Innovation
- Yee Jenn Jong: Stay hungry, stay foolish – A great principle for life
- Blogging for Myself: iMourn and how to run Apple now
- ST Blog: Steve Jobs, the Tech Prophet

October 7th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

R.I.P Steve Jobs

- BBC: Obituary: Steve Jobs
- New Nation: The cult of Steve Jobs
- Otterman Speaks: Goodbye Steve, thanks for the wings
- erwinchan: Thanks Steve…
- Sir Fong: iSad
- mrbrown: L’infantile terrible of Singapore: Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
- sgentrepreneurs: Steve Jobs, the comeback king

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- SG-Quitters: Retirement in Canada vs Singapore – A personal experience.
- Yahoo: Should multi-car ownership be discouraged?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Desperatebeep: There are Foreigners and there are Foreigners

Presidential Elections
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Who was the most effective campaigner in the 2011 PE?

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Publichouse: Rethinking welfare and inequality

A Vote for Change
- Singapore Notes: Exit Plans
- New Asia Republic: First-time Opposition MPs gear up for Parliament
- TOC: Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong and 4 others step down from PAP CEC
- TOC: It’s difficult to measure the impact of new media on GE 2011
- Yahoo: Some ex-ministers still cast long shadows on govt

Daily Disclosure
- My Thoughts..: The Most Cock Piece of ‘Reporting’ Yet
- Sporting Roar: The National Swim Sagas
- Jimo’s cavern: Elites

Infoblogamus
- themediaslut: Big boys Ogilvy PR loses Microsoft Singapore PR pitch to local start-up PR agency

October 6th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

A Vote for Change
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Kopi Talk With Acting Minister Chan Chun Sing: On Active Citizenry, Social Services And National Service
- Singapore Notes: A Matter Of Perception
- journalism.sg: Diverse Strategies in Political Blogs’ Election Coverage
- TOC: An Internet elections – believe it or not?

Housing
- TOC: Will HDB prices keep rising?

Educate Our Youth
- Little Speck: Teaching politics
- Publichouse: Education system – back to basics

Presidential Election
- New Nation: President Tan spent less on campaign than Tan Cheng Bock

377a
- The Lycan Times 狼人時報: Random Discourse – A Case of Idiocy

Daily Disclosure
- A Singaporean says: A Solution in Sight?
- Singapore Actually: The Anxiety of Singapore’s Work Culture & In Praise of Idleness
- Publichouse: The sunrises and sunsets of our lives

Infoblogamus
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Shell refinery fire at Bukom: what caused it?
- New Nation: News parody show The Noose nominated for International Emmy

Save the Dolphins
- Where Bears Roam Free: Can Animal Rights Activists provide proof instead of abusing corporations?
- TOC: RWS can impact youths by admitting mistake – Anti-dolphin hunt activist Ric O’ Barry
- Yahoo: ‘Not too late for RWS to release dolphins’
- Today: Dolphin catcher-turned-activist nets audience of 500

Sketches
- Demon-cratic Singapore: Singapore is (or was?) very rich (Part III)

Stuff
- Telegraph: Minimum wage harming job opportunities for young [Thanks A]
- The Star Online: Johor kids going to Singapore

October 5th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment