The Singapore Daily

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A Vote for Change
- funny little world: “Come, to the streets” – A message to friends across the Causeway
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Momentous Impact of Aljunied
- Political Writings: OTP Series* V: PAP: Stay Arrogant, Stay Clueless II
- SpeakSpokeWriteWrote: Et tu Mr Khaw
- Musings From the Lion City: A New Era?
- Singapore Notes: How Much Is $10 Million?

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- yawningbread: Jail for bosses who mistreat workers, says judge
- TOC: Repartriation Companies – Manpower Minister’s response belittles the efforts of migrant workers

Daily Disclosure
- Vicky’s Writings: Raising a GEP child
- My Little Corner: The poor and the near poor
- Publichouse: NTUC Chief on ‘glocalization’ and ‘corecalization’

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Laïcité – Secularity and Secularism: Xenophobia is xenophobia
- ZB: 不满要放弃新加坡公民权被拒 在港出世少年申请司法检讨

Housing
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: What the news of the numbers of PRs owning HDB flats (and how it was reported) tells us

Equal rights for Women!
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The intolerance of those calling for tolerance
- Where Bears Roam Free: Slutwalkers call themselves “sluts”, yet get mad when others agree
- Yahoo: SlutWalk organisers fight against need for police permit

Racism or witch-hunt?
- Emmanuel Daniel: Singapore’s “diversity” in a “post-meritocratic” world
- New Asia Republic: Liberty in the Social Media and a Practice Target for Dialogue

Infoblogamus
- Otterman Speaks: Blood Bank: ‘O’ blood group stock is very low
- Singapore Sojourn: Food For Thought But No Makan

November 30th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Daily Disclosure
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Don’t Target Local Market
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent : 学习外语: the chapter 3 syndrome
- Where Bears Roam Free: Yet another irresponsible message from AWARE

Racism or witch-hunt?
- the paradoX files: On Liberty in the Social Media and a Practice Target for Dialogue
- Desparatebeep: The Beautiful Racist
- TOC: Discrimination online and the MICA verdict
- Wall Street Journal: In Singapore, a Tangled Web of Race and Religion

A Vote for Change
- Reflections on Change: Steering Singapore Out of the Last Recession
- Tan Kin Lian: Student concession fares on public transport
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minster Lim Swee Say on Structural Unemployment….
- Sgpolitics.net: Educating the Grassroots
- New Nation: Concrete ideas needed for public transport subsidies
- Bernard Chen Jiaxi 陈家喜: Where’s the leadership, Mr. Lee?: The Government’s non-response to tertiary students over the concession fares issue [Thanks Faridah]
- Kojakbt’s FB: PAP Community Foundation and NTUC First Campus will stand to benefit from the LKY $100M Bilingual Fund
- Today: From transparency to opacity [Thanks Adrian]

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- flâneurose: The nascent crisis of affinity
- ZB: 梧槽坊居民的心声

Housing
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Home Prices May Be Poised to Plunge

We are against capital punishment
- yawningbread: Shadrake makes it into manga

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Senang Diri: 1/3 empty or 2/3 full?: Suggestions for sensing the commitment of Singapore Permanent Residents towards National Service

s377a
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Why not orchid for Elton?

Infoblogamus
- Singapoe Sojourn: Food For Thought But No Makan [Thanks Roger]
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Pakistanis in 1900s Singapore
- mrbrown.com: PAP MP shows up at Halloween in Woodgrove, mistaken for playing a PAP MP
- Publichouse: Helping sex workers, fighting sex trafficking

Stuff
- Big Singapore Talks: 20 Haunted Schools in Singapore – Rumours or Truths?

November 29th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

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A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why TJS never got invited for tea and biscuits
- Ravi Philemon: YPAP call for fairer fares and past precedence
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜 FB Notes : Why Singapore need a First World Parliament?: Mr. Inderjit Singh and his magnanimity
- Singapore Notes: Political Jokes
- Yahoo: PM Lee pledges a new PAP for Singapore
- TOC: YPAP – Remember us as you take to Speakers’ Corner

Housing
- Singapore 2025: Smaller HDB flats: 10 years on……”Think small and put the buzz into Singapore”
- Housing Matters: Greater clarity helps

Racism or witch-hunt?
- Benjamin Cheah: Storms in teacups over hurt, not harm
- Singapore Election Watch: Exclusive Photo: Jason Neo, The Racist YPAP Scum
- New Asia Republic: Religious sensitivities in Singapore and proper editorial judgement

Educate our Youth
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Peixian’s questions part 2
- Salary.sg: Graduate Employment Survey 2010 (Published 2011)
- 新加坡文献馆: 中国人看南洋大学

Strangers in a Strange Land
- CONVEX SET: deas on Reforming the Institution of “Permanent Residency”
- New Asia Republic: Reforming the Institution of Permanent Residency

Peasant’s way or the government’s highway
- Publichouse: The little Home fighting for its life

Daily Disclosure
- The Thinking Fish Tank: Are Singaporeans Patriotic?
- Where Bears Roam Free: A dedication to Dr Ang Swee Chai
- Rambling Librarian: The persistent social media notice board (or “Singapore Police Force’s first ‘Facebook Arrest’”)
- Coloer Insights: SPF’s First Facebook Arrest – Crowdsleuthing in Action

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Alex Lew Yan Liang 刘彦良: Singaporeans most unhappy with personal savings: The Happiness Report
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: SME Employer: “We may have to close down due to a lack of workers.”

s377a
- Everything Also Complain: Orchid named after Elton John
- yawningbread: Friday assaults

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- New Nation: The Straits Times should plagiarise itself

Infoblogamus
- themediaslut: McDonald’s Singapore new curry sauce gets social media thumbs down
- Quirkychic: Why shopping in SG just got more interesting.

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

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This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: In defence of SPH
- techgoondu: SPH sues Yahoo! – a first here for old media versus new media?

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why moving ministers around or out is gd for everyone cont’d
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜’s FB Note: Missing the Point – That 10-years series answer to tertiary students since 2001 [Thanks Willy]
- Singapore Alternatives: Journey Forward

Racism or witch-hunt?
- The Void Deck: Ouch, the Truth Hurts [Updated Link]
- Everything Also Complain: Pig on the Kaaba as flame bait
- Pilgrimage: On the “special position of Malays” in Singapore
- Jojotora: On Jason, Christian and so on and so forth [Thanks George]
- The Logic of Faith: Rowan Atkinson on the Right to Insult and Blaspheme Against Religions [Thanks William]
- SEA Youth Says So: Should we arrest racists?
- TOC: Even an imprisoned racist’s thoughts are free

Peasant’s way or the government’s highway
- Words of the Cze: Disappearance
- Blinkymummy: The Problem with Urban Redevelopment & Consultation
- New Nation: An express account of the North-South Expressway

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – SMRT CEO
- yawningbread: Additional public transport capacity: hard to estimate benefit

Housing
- Reflections On Change: Private Property Investment as a Route to Permanent Residence
- Yours Truly Singapore: Buyers shouldn’t blame Govt for bad property investment​s
- My Singapore News: Communal living back in Singapore
- Yahoo: Man accidentally locked in flat by HDB officers

Educate our Youth
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: For Peixian: the business world
- New Asia Republic: Self-designing your own course to future successes

Strangers in a Strange Land
- 否极泰来 Piji Tailai: Singapore working language is English? Yes and no
- TOC: Stop PRs from gaming the system

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Giving cold blooded murderer second chance to kill

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- FOOD fuels me to talk: Respecting personal choice or washing off our hands?

Daily Disclosure
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: More Juice For Less Fruit
- Gem Philip’s FB Note: My Changi Prison Experience

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Crossroads: Beyond the Crossroad

Infoblogamus
- The Long and Winding Road: A new face to a once familiar place
- Remember Singapore: A Forgotten Past – The Days When Singapore Mafia Ruled Europe
- Yahoo: Civil servants to get 1.75 months bonus payout

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

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: Food court named after Khmer Rouge killing field
- Loh and Behold: Thanks to ACRA, we can Drink at Aushwitz and Eat at S21
- Desparatebeep: The Arena
- SpotlightOnSingapore: 800 cyclists summoned each year: well done, Traffic Police?

Racism or witch-hunt?
- Muzlimbuzz: An Open Letter to Mr Jason Neo, Christian Eliab Ratnam and Donaldson Tan [Thanks Faridah]
- Loretta Marie Perera’s FB: On Racial Harmony & My Colourless Cave
- Publichouse: Religion not even a consideration, says Tan

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Small steps for Social PR: Can “fair dealings” be a Yahoo defence against Singapore Press Holding’s lawsuit?
- Yahoo: Yahoo! pledges vigorous defense against SPH claim

Strangers in a Strange Land
- mrbrown.com: Chinese NUS student: There will always be Singaporeans who will perform worse than us.

A Vote for Change
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: Another Round of Monopoly Anyone?
- TOC: NCMP Yee Jenn Jong: no-one wants to be the best loser

Housing
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: $1250 psf condo at Bedok….
- TOC: How many HDB flats are occupied by PRs or former-PRs?

Infoblogamus
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Artists Fight for ‘Old School’ Landmark

Stuff
- Sgpolitics.net: East Asian stability at risk if US trashes its defence budget

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

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Racism or witch-hunt?
- Zulfikar Shariff’s FB: Beef rendang and trivialising values
- Where Bears Roam Free: Free speech works both ways – if you feel you can insult religion, you must accept being preached to
- Words of the Cze: Bababa
- Sam’s Thoughts: Teasing the ism from race and religion
- funny little world: You can’t arrest the racist out of someone.
- a2ed.com: The ‘pig on the kabaa’ issue and the value of overt nonsensical racism
- New Nation: Some religions are more sensitive than others

CPF
- Reflections On Change: Supplementary Retirement Scheme – Facts and Myths [Thanks James!]
- TOC: CPF: Pay to disabled children monthly?

Daily Disclosure
- Les Petits Contes : Tribute to Two Former PMs [Thanks Annabelle!]
- Everything Also Complain: Aushwitz bar named after a site of genocide
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Is there a need for SlutWalk Singapore?
- TOC: Fundamentals in Public Engagement 2.0 – GovCamp reflections

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why moving ministers around or out is gd for everyone
- Yahoo: Where is Singapore’s next Prime Minister?
- Singapore Democrats: Beware the PAP-media agenda

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – SMRT CEO
- SpotlightOnSingapore: 30 new MRT trains: testing commuters’ patience?

Infoblogamus
- Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations: Formation of the Singapore Interfaith Network on Aids
- Telegraph: Singapore: playground of the super-rich

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

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Racism or witch-hunt?
- All Things Singapore: Of freedom of speech & freedom to post
- Zulfikar Shariff’s FB: Of offense and intent. Jason Neo, Christian Eliab Ratnam and Donaldson Tan
- TOC: Racist posts on FB by blogger – police investigates

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Recalcitrant: Usurping the role of the Host (喧宾夺主） [Thanks Adrian!]
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: The work-life balance question
- Yours Truly Singapore: Excerpts from the book [THanks CJ!]
- Where Bears Roam Free: High handed attitude of ACRES and other activists is appalling

Peasant’s way or government’s highway
- TOC: Bukit Brown and Rochor: Development for Who?

Heathcare
- Reflections On Change: Government Subsidies for Foreigner A&E Patients

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Fabian Tay: “The truth behind my Han’s Cafe dismissal”

A Vote for Change
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: DPM Tharman : Slowdown will test leadership….
- Singapore Notes: More Time To Repent
- Sgpolitics.net: What any Confucian-styled ruler should know

377a
- Yawningbread: Doritaenopsis Sir Elton John
- New Nation: Abercrombie & Fitch promoting homosexuality, exhibitionism in Singapore

Infoblogamus
- Cooler Insights: Insights from GovCamp Singapore
- EastCoastLife: National Day Awards Investiture 2011 – RT
- Remember Singapore: A Walk Through The Old Neighbourhood – Jalan Kayu
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore to Host French Film Festival

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

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Daily Disclosure
- Abdilla Zamzuri: Malays, 2nd Biggest Majority in Singapore
- Senang Diri: In power in the real world, out of favour in the virtual one: Why the PAP has few friends in cyberspace
- Unique-Frequency.com: Thoughts on Social Media, Ebooks and Gen Y in the Organisation
- funny little world: GovCamp SG – More than just a little victory.
- Yawningbread: Smarter online government-people engagement

The Powers of White?
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: Sensitivities and Insensitivities
- Chemical Generation Singapore: YPAP Bombed Themselves
- Singapore Notes: Tempering With The Law
- [ insights, interests, intelligence ]: Moving on, and away, from Jason Neo: my thoughts
- Everything Also Complain: Huda kindergarten’s ‘young terrorist trainees’
- Rants of a Weird Little Bird: On Jason Neo’s “Bus filled with young terrorist trainees” picture
- Where Bears Roam Free: Jason Neo’s case over-hyped, support for Muslims shown misplaced
- SG Hard Truth: Why attack an innocent citizen with fake and lies ? and for what reason… ?! – Jason Neo Saga
- Yahoo: Racist — or just a symptom of wider malaise? [Thanks Willy]

Peasant’s way or government’s highway
- Feed Me To The Fish: Sacrifice For The Greater Good
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: Another train complaint post (plus Rochor!)
- Everyday Party’s FB: THE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO THE PEOPLE’S DIALOGUE WITH LTA [Thanks Li Sui]
- ZB: 兴建公路组屋被征用 梧槽坊居民要求提高赔偿

CPF
- A Yummy Slice of Life: Why do some people have pensions whereas everyone else only have CPF?

Healthcare
- TOC: Man paid three times more for same medication at Govt Hospital than at Polyclinic
- Publichouse: The price of life – what value?

A Vote for Change
- Majulah!: [Youth Quake Reaction] Youth Parliament in Singapore?
- angmohlian: Youthquake: Is there space for a Youth Parliament in Singapore?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: DPM Tharman : Slowdown will test leadership….

Educate Our Youth
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: The Singapore Education System vs Singaporean parents

377a
- Sound of Mull: Elton John showcases his family in Singapore

Infoblogamus
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Donate your used textbook to NTUC FairPrice
- Scientific American: Amazing Neptune’s Cup Sponge Rediscovered in Singapore
- The Star Online: Pushing bilateral cooperation

November 21st, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

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Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Singapore Short Stories: The Building of North-South Expressway & bringing the soul of the Singapore City back
- Publichouse: Saving Old School – how old is old enough?

The Powers of White?
- Sam’s Thoughts: Condemning Jason Neo’s offensive photo caption
- SpotlightOnSingapore: PAP Youth member racist online posting: MSM stumbles again
- Singapore Notes: Managing The New Media
- TOC: Highly racist and offensive caption – YPAP member?
- Yahoo: Young PAP member quits over racially offensive remark
- Today: Young PAP member quits over offensive remarks

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why are trains overcrowded, but not the port or airport?
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Changi pub-owner fined: sign of a thuggish society?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: From population replacement to property valuation – how the FT policy lost its way
- Support Site for the Unemployed and Underemployed: Singaporean technician ostracised by Filipino workers who spoke mainly tagalog at work

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- yawningbread: Crime and ambivalence

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: School-Based Community Initiatives: Heighten Reflection Processes And Sustainability

377a
- sgentrepreneurs: After losing all shares in Fridae, gay portal’s co-founder severs domain from company

Infoblogamus
- Singapore Sojourn: General Election 2011 – NZ Style
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Hang He Kway Chup anyone?
- Remember Singapore: A Walk Through The Old Neighbourhood – Tiong Bahru

November 18th, 2011 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Yaw Shin Leong: On The Would-be Land Acquisition of NYPLHK Building
- mrbrown: L’infantile terrible of Singapore: Bye bye Rochor Centre
- TOC: Protecting our Commons
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: More than 500 homes to make way for North-South highway

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Ravi Philemon: That article on the senior citizen

Daily Disclosure
- blinkymummy: Foreigner Workers & the Draw of Casinos
- My Little Corner: Does meritocracy drives down innovation?

CPF
- Tan Kin Lian: Flexible Pensions
- Seeking Returns: Investment Fraud in Singapore

Healthcare
- Young PAP: Personal Opinion Piece: Singapore’s Changing Heathcare Landscape

A Vote for Change
- Singapore Democrats: Glen Goei: Singaporeans significantly less happy

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

Daily Disclosure
- A Yummy Slice of Life: The David versus Goliath Battle for Singapore’s Soul
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Police to boost patrols: no more an “invisible” force?
- Singapore Short Stories: Will installing CCTVs at Void Decks lead to Void Decks being completely Void?
- Singapore Sojourn: Inspiring Stories and Lifelong Abilities
- Singapore Notes: Another One Bites The Dust
- The Void Deck: LTA and Vogon-ish Road Building
- Publichouse: SASW owes public an explanation on award fiasco

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – SMRT CEO
- TOC: MRT overcrowding shows a startling lack of planning

Housing
- Welcome to the Fewture.: Prison Island Singapore
- Housing Matters: Making Good Progress with First-timers

A Vote for Change
- Reflections on Change: Businesses, Politics and Economics [Thanks James]
- Kieran James’ FB: My interview with Mr Desmond Lim (Sec-General SJP and SDA), 6 October 2011
- Sgpolitics.net: An entire nation held hostage by the property market
- New Nation: Optimism is not happiness

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Ministers’ Salaries & Pensions

We are against capital punishment
- yawningbread: Hanging up the hanging rope

Infoblogamus
- The Long and Winding Road: Finding a colourful little bit of paradise at Marina Bay
- EastCoastLife: Gardens By The Bay Preview – WW
- Yahoo: Rochor Centre area to make way for North-South Expressway

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

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A Vote for Change
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s cost of living and global business competitiveness
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Parliament United Scored
- Where Bears Roam Free: Chee Soon Juan and Co more interested in selves than opposition cause
- Den Gogh’s FB: Dr. Chee, A Narcissistic?
- TOC: Unruly internet? Avoid panic reactions!

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: 15 year old Elite model in a skimpy bikini
- Daily Breaks: The Obsolescence Of Retirement
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Singapore Kindness Movement: leading by example not talk

Correcting Urban Legends in Singapore
- TOC: Ernst and Young ‘did not ask me to surrender MP allowance’ – Tin Pei Ling

Housing
- Today: So what is the ‘right price’? [Thanks Adrian!]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Daily Breaks: How Did We Grow So Big So Fast?
- Yu-Kym’s Blog: Jobless foreign workers better off than Singaporeans
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Singaporeans – not cut out for foreigner-dominated F & B industry?

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- SG-Quitters: Journey to Retirement – Working my way out of poverty.

Infoblogamus
- Blog To Express: Flood as Natural Disaster
- New Asia Republic: Money worth for increased transport fees from an overseas example
- The Long and Winding Road: A sneak peek at the Gardens by the Bay

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

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Housing
- KAFFEIN-NATED: Sick Joke?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: “Smaller flats doesn’t mean lower quality of living” : HDB CEO…
- TOC: Quality of living “not lowered” despite smaller flats. Really?

Educate Our Youth
- Words of the Cze: Civic
- Everything Also Complain: You’ve got the cheek to tell me this
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Shanghai’s Education Excellence And Singapore’s Competence
- yawningbread: Moral education likely to end up as immoral indoctrination

Daily Disclosure
- Senang Diri: Power for the People: Security implications from importing electricity
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: S’poreans can do “rational discourse”and “reasoned and constructive debate”
- Ms Demeanour Singapore: Would the real SPG please stand up?
- funny little world: My New Older Sister
- yawningbread: Police have nightmare about boobs

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Everything Also Complain: Hawker gambler glamorised by media

A Vote for Change
- geraldgiam.sg: Destruction of GE 2011 ballot papers
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SPP: Changing of the guard?
- Yours Truly Singapore: S’pore’s success: An observer’s take [Thanks Adrian!]
- Singapore Election Watch: Some Facts About Singapore You Didn’t Know

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Star Online: Startling turn of events

Infoblogamus
- sgentrepreneurs: Which Singapore govt agencies are the most responsive to business needs?

Correcting Cyberspace Urban Legends in Singapore
- Tan Chuan-Jin’s FB: Managing Strays

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Apple microUSB adapter

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

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A Vote for Change
- Where Bears Roam Free: Chee Soon Juan is as narcissistic as LKY
- yawningbread: Internet politics myth-busting, part 2
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Best NMPs: Jos Yeo and Terry Lee?
- TOC: I’m back for good – Dr James Gomez
- Yahoo: What purpose do government parliamentary commmittees serve?

Daily Disclosure
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Public Transportation Service Standards: Priority Passengers And Feedback Channels
- Department of Crappy Engineering: happiness from what you don’t have
- A Singaporean says: English as it should be writ (Part 6)

Educate Our Youth
- The Thinking Fish Tank: What is Science?
- Yee Jenn Jong: Parents’ role in educating children

Housing
- New Asia Republic: An alternative public housing scheme

Healthcare
- TOC: A senior citizen asks, “Why should I seek help now?”

The Gospel of Harry
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: How about a Deng Xiaoping award next?

Stuff
- The Sun Daily: Johor royal family, Peter Lim to build medical hub in JB

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

Educate Our Youth
- [ insights, interests, intelligence ]: Moral education incorporated into syllabus: an open letter to Education Minister
- Singapore Notes: Moral Education
- 否极泰来 Piji Tailai: Learning is for oneself, others or money. Can the MOE’s character building kit help students making a better decision?

Daily Disclosure
- Vicky’s Writings: The making of a spoilt brat
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Propofol On Trial
- Musings From the Lion City: Posting Their Life
- Singapore Short Stories: Revamping the ministries in Singapore
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Police still investigating after 14 months

A Vote for Change
- TOC: The new PAP government’s art of listening without listening
- New Nation: Fairness: Process as important as outcome

The Gospel of Harry
- Wall Street Journal: Illness Underscores Singapore Transition

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- yawningbread: Stew the canard, cook the migrant worker

We are against capital punishment
- We Believe in Second Chances: The Mule, the Mastermind and the MDP
- TOC: How much discretion should the Prosecution have?

Housing
- Wall Street Journal: Discrimination Pervasive in Singapore Property Rental Market [Thanks CH]

Infoblogamus
- Eye Contact: How long does it take to be an eye doctor in Singapore?

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

#OccupyRafflesPlace with the brave faceless organisers
- Political Writings: The Wrong 1%

Educate our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Singapore’s Education System: A Dialogue With Minister Heng Swee Keat
- Where Bears Roam Free: Parents, not school, should teach children character development
- Yee Jenn Jong: The journey to develop character and values in students
- TOC: Imparting “values” through students?

A Vote for Change
- Chemical Generation Singapore: SPP’s Performance in Parliament: On the Brink of Disaster
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Selective Courage and other PM’s tales

The Suicide Club
- themediaslut: Signs – a temporary solution to a permanent problem
- Ray of Light: “Suicides in Singapore: Address it, not shun it”

Daily Disclosure
- The Mind Game: Cracking the Singapore Citizenship Test
- Senang Diri: Sing govt’s pledge to engage citizens will face tough tests in 2012
- yawningbread: Land sale runs into a ditch, as does Singapore’s competitiveness
- sgentrepreneurs: Lessons from a dot-com survivor
- New Nation: Is Internet vigilantism ever ok?
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Graveyard Stirs Lively Debate

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Limpeh is Foreign Talent: More replies, part 2
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Labour Infringement: Whistle-Blower Turned On Company With 20 Coffee Shops/Food Courts

Infoblogamus
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore Computer Society unveils first registry for IT professionals
- funny little world: GovCamp SG 2011
- EastCoastLife: Life-long Employability Programme by Southeast CDC and WDA – WW
- Yahoo: SEA Games not an ‘exposure trip’: Tan Eng Liang
- CNNGo: Singapore’s 5 worst tourist traps

Stuff
- Sgpolitics.net: A future prediction regarding Japan and the Pacific region

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

The Suicide Club
- SpotlightOnSingapore: Bedok Reservoir deaths: media should cease such reports
- TOC: Bedok Reservoir deaths – are we missing the bigger picture?

Daily Disclosure
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Reviewing The Individual Physical Proficiency Test
- Blogging for Myself: Bukit Brown Cemetery and policy options
- RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A FREE THINKER: Why discuss when you already have something in mind, CNA?
- Pritam Singh’s FB: Singapore Parliament Team
- Yahoo: Send best athletes to SEA Games: Ang Peng Siong

A Vote for Change
- Desparatebeep: Shangri-La on Earth?
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: My response to your comment on gridlock and the understanding of the masses.
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: 7 Uniquely-Singapore Shameful Policies

Strangers in a Strange Land
- mrbrown.com: Singaporean renounces citizenship, comes back to work in Singapore as foreign talent
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Supervisor at Hans Cafe resigned due to marginalisation by foreign staff

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” - SMRT CEO
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: SMRT: CEO stupdity discount?
- ST: Long wait for buses and trains unacceptable
- InSing: SMRT continues to raise netizens’ ire

Infoblogamus
- Tan Chuan-Jin’s FB: Meaning of Sacrifice
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Tree Planting Day

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

The Suicide Club
- Everything Also Complain: Bedok Reservoir prayer session ‘kind of dramatised’
- Singapore Life & Times: Infamous Serenity
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Suicidal Reservoir
- New Nation: Dead bodies in Bedok Reservoir — the good news

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: LKY can’t feel his legs
- Desparate Beep: Where the West still Wins
- New Asia Republic: Engineering Education: A Sorry State of Affairs

Housing
- geraldgiam.sg: Building of Subsidised Rental Flats
- TOC: BTO flat income ceiling rules: why include commissions but exclude bonuses?

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Crossroads: Will I miss Singapore?

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Transient Workers Count Too: Manpower Ministry’s Tan Chuan-Jin Visits TWC2

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Star Online: Alienated on their own turf

A Vote for Change
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Comical Gaffe by Minister Khaw Boon Wan
- Tan Chuan-Jin’s FB: A Personal Reflection: Bukit Brown and what it means for all our pasts and our futures
- TOC: More transparency needed in the NMP selection process
- TOC: “We pursue everything except that which makes life worthwhile.” – Freedom Award winner Dr Chee Soon Juan

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to”
- Publichouse: A fine question

Presidential Elections 2011
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The financially savviest PE candidate of them all

Infoblogamus
- Remember Singapore: 100 Things We Love About The 80s (Part 2)
- eastcoastlife: Mediacorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge 2011 – PH
- The Long and Winding Road: Seven years old and making dreams and wishes come true
- Coastweek: Singapore warship disrupts two Somali pirate attacks

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

(Cartoon Credit: The Sketch Times)

A Vote for Change
- The Sun Shines On Singapore: NMP Scheme, Still Here
- Ravi Philemon: Stuff the IPS survey on PE did not report
- PaSsu Diary-Journal of an Ordinary Bhutanese: To Mr. Khaw Boon Wan, What did you expect? [Thanks Simon!]
- Molitics: Book Review: An Engaging Read
- ZB: “负担得起的价格”是什么?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: System makes it easy to hire foreigners at expense of locals

Daily Disclosure
- guanyinmiao’s musings: In Defence Of Singapore’s Youths: Pragmatism Not Necessarily Detrimental
- Tan Kin Lian: Policing the Internet
- Where Bears Roam Free: Minorities need to speak up for their rights

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Reinventing the Rice Bowl: What Lessons does the Olympus Saga hold for Singapore and our SWFs?

Housing
- Today: Are foreigners responsible for rising property prices today?
- Yahoo: HDB outlines plans to develop new towns in next 10 years

Temasek Review Donation Capers
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Three cheers for TR

Infoblogamus
- Remember Singapore: Headlines that shook Singapore (since 1955)
- ZDNet Asia: S’pore silver gen workers ‘untapped’ IT gems

Stuff
- BBC: Can China control social media revolution? [Thanks Adrian]

November 4th, 2011 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)