Budget 2010 Debate
- New Asia Republic: Why not a living wage?
- Gerald Giam: Tackling income inequality should be Govt’s top priority
- Ian On The Red Dot: Wages & Productivity – Building A Cathedral From Scratch
- The Temasek Review: Eight Reasons Why Foreign Workers Will be Preferred Over Our Local Ones
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang: Don’t cut pay of workers who reach 60
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang: Give part-time and contract workers have good training opportunities

Countdown to Elections
- Sgpolitics.net: Has Singapore a Future?

Housing Singaporeans
- All About Money: Oh what a tangle web..
- Who Moved My Singapore Cheese: Farce

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Temasek Review: GLC Keppel Corp mass-recruiting Malaysians for jobs in Singapore

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: $2 billion in PAP town councils’ sinking funds but need to increase charges?
- The Temasek Review: Declining wages of Singaporeans and the continued denial of PAP leaders

Re education
- The Temasek Review: 3 local varsities raise fees for Singapore students again

Lee vs Chee
- TOC: ST and LHZB censor Chee’s letter on PAP undermining Singapore’s interests

Daily Discourse
- Trapper’s Swamp: Broad definitions make for bad laws
- New Asia Republic: On rights and freedom of action [Thanks Donaldson]
- The Temasek Review: Only 11 cases of successful Public Assistance (PA) applicants from July 2008 to December 2009
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Same Old Chinese / Mandarin Dilemma
- The Kent Ridge Common: KRMF 2010 takes a positive turn

Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: The magical hill with a fairy-tale like mansion that was Mount Sophia
- Singaporean Skeptic: It is called football (not soccer)!

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- CNN Go: It’s finally open — First look (and ride) at Universal Studios Singapore
- Reuters: Universal Studios Singapore courts 8 for lucky launch
- Crosscut: Singapore’s national dish: Hainan chicken rice
- The Age: Australia faces housing affordability ‘time bomb’: developer
- Reuters: Recession left “walking wounded” workers
- NYT Opinion: Changing the Vatican’s Response to Abuse
- Reuters: The promise of seven blood baths in Bangkok and no violence [bloody pics]
- Crack Two: Pollution makes for nice pics [large pics]

Budget 2010 Debate
- Trapper’s Swamp: The Bogeyman of the “West”
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Defence spending around the world

Countdown to Elections
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Why bloggers must disregard cooling off day
- The Temasek Review: Comparison of LIVE parliamentary debates of 5 countries and the “wayang” in the Singapore Parliament

Housing Singaporeans
- Singapore Alternatives: HDB’s Flawed Policy Direction
- The Temasek Review: Prices of resale HDB flats may rise further as PR quota reached in several estates
- En Bloc Block Blog: “Where laws end, tyranny begins.”

We are agsinst Capital Punishment
- TOC: Do we not have room for remorse, repentence and conversion?
- Rachel Zeng: Merely a co-incidence?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: Re-tune the COE quota
- department of crappy engineering: manned but unmanned

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Cord blood banking - should you, or shouldn’t you?

Daily Discourse
- The Temasek Review: Why are surveys and rankings about Singapore always spectacular?
- TOC: Don’t stand in the way of evolving social workers

Life, the universe and everything
- The Pattern Trader: Why Traders Fail – Lesson 1
- Small steps for Social PR: Are Starhub MaxMobile Elite Users Getting What They Are Paying for?

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Guardian: Heroin smuggler challenges Singapore death sentence
- Bloomberg: Singapore’s Export Growth Accelerates as Recovery Strengthens
- Reuters: In asset shift, Temasek checks out tech sector
- CNET: Singapore telcos talk LTE: Should you care?
- Washington Post: A stunning AIDS fact
- BBC: Too many visit GPs with minor ailments, campaigners say
- Reuters: Business must change to earn back the public’s trust

Budget 2010 Debate
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim: Tier electricity pricing to favour small consumers
- The Temasek Review: Misleading ST article on “rise” in productivity when it continues to decrease in 2009

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: TOC Editorial: Cooling-off day may lead to heated confusion

Housing Singaporeans
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Debt and Delusion..
- Trapper’s Swamp: HDB flat prices to remain high, COV to stay

We are agsinst Capital Punishment
- Lianain Films: “For Me, I’m Hoping For A Miracle” [Thanks Seelan]

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Blowin’ In The Wind: More locals than foreigners hired after 2 years

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Elevating Singapore’s Public Transportation By A Notch
- Brad’s Blog: MyTransport.SG: Why LTA Really Killed the ‘Park-a-Lot’ iPhone App

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- The Gigamole Diaries: Unethical screening - a timely warning

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore, Temasek, good governance and the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index

Woman No Enough
- TOC: Gagged by the church – Foyce Le Xuan
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Misguided Heroism of Minister George Yeo
- The Sketch Times: Ohhh… Jacky Boyyyyy…
- Jarrod’s Infernal Emissions: I’mA brief interlude.. [Thanks Seelan]

Re education
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “From an elite school”;《名校出身》

Daily Discourse
- journalism.sg: Independent Judiciary requires respect and support of public
- The Temasek Review: Why do we need so many PAP strawberries MPs in Parliament?
- Michael Fernandez: The Scars of Detention [Thanks Seelan]

Life, the universe and everything
- The Temasek Review: Singapore National Football Team: Let’s talk about statistics
- The Long and Winding Road: My stroll through the streets of that made up the Mahallah: Selegie Road

Now Showing
- Open Contours: Beyond the Model [Model Citizens]
- Cooler Insights: Of Love, Loss and Luscious CGI [The Lovely Bones]

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Free Malaysia Today: Falling prey in the Lion City
- BusinessInsider: Singapore’s Huge Bet On Sex And Gambling Is About To Pay Off Big Time
- Guardian Gallery: Thailand protesters pour human blood on government’s gates
- NYT Health: When Your Partner Is a Sex Addict
- BBC: Baldness ‘could be good for your health’ say scientists
- Reuters: People leave unique trail of germs
- Dailymail: The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world’s fattest woman
- Boston.com: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 [large photos]

Super White

via Who Moved My Singapore Cheese, who has dedicated this song to Mr Affordable.

We are against Capital Punishment
- Jacob 69er: Singapore’s Court of Appeal reserves judgment in Vui Kong’s appeal hearing
- TOC: M Ravi: Death penalty should not be dispensed ‘in an automated, robotic, spasmodic approach’
- TOC: Discretion to the judges – judgment reserved
- covered in his blood: A Bleak Take of the Court of Appeal and Yong Vui Kong [Thanks Paul]
- Rachel Zeng: Court of Appeal reserves judgement on Yong’s appeal

Housing Singaporeans
- Singapore Alternatives: Give us HDB Flats AT COST, NOT 30yrs mortgage Enslavement!

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Temasek Review: Wages of Singaporeans declined by 3.2% as PAP ministers increase their own pay by 8.8%
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Long-term unemployment rising in Singapore

Woman No Enough
- Singapore Aspirations: On the Jack Neo sex scandal and sexual harassment in the workplace [Thanks singaporeaspirant]
- Trapper’s Swamp: It might be real news now

Daily Discourse
- New Asia Republic: Finding our way in New Asia
- The Rot Within: Two orthogonal distinctions
- Icarus Flew Too High: The Human Rights Paradox
- Barnyard Chorus: This is STupid
- Silent Eloquence: Singapore, the misunderstood child

Life, the universe and everything
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Singapore National Figure Skating Championships to be held in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
- Good Morning Yesterday: Central Business District Petrol Stations
- Wild Shores of Singapore: What do you think about diving in Singapore?

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- The Independent: Singapore bling: Is the city-state ready to party?
- Reuters: Big rise in arms imports threatens SE Asia: report
- AFP: Developing world has launched ‘arms race’: think-tank
- Reuters IN: INTERVIEW - Opposition chief tells Singaporeans: Don’t be afraid
- Reuters: UPDATE 1-ST Telemedia buys stake in Malaysian 3G firm
- Reuters: Q+A-Is Malaysia heading to an early election?
- BBC: Media tycoons wanted: Make your own newspaper
- Reuters: Herpes and other most-read surprises
- Guardian: Absent-mindedness is a middle-aged male problem, research shows
- BBC: Deep breathing ‘cuts stress as much as massage’
- NYT Gadgetwise: America’s Top Phone Makers? Not Who You Think
- DailyFinance: We Are the World Wide Web! Happy 25th Birthday, Dot-Com

Budget 2010 Debate
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim asks for concessionary travel for disabled on public transport
- Gerald Giam: Raymond Lim once proposed a way for “completely free” public transport
- TOC: Lonely out of the gravy train
- Singapore Alternatives: Transport Minister vs HDB Minister
- The Temasek Review: Why PAP MPs are no more but a “wayang” in Parliament
- Mr Wang Says So: The Strange History of Productivity in Singapore [Thanks Gerald]
- My sketchbook: How many civil servants to fix a light bulb?

Countdown to Elections
- TOC: Time for someone new to drive Singapore
- The Kent Ridge Common: Does the alternative media have anything to fear?
- Majulah!: New rulings for political chatters online.
- Singabloodypore: PAP nervous about New Media, introduces “guidelines”
- The Temasek Review: No need for Minister Lui Tuck Yew to teach netizens how to “self-regulate” themselves
- Mindblogging Stuff: Heaven & Hell (political version)

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: The story of a boy
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Yong Vui Kong’s appeal on March 15

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- The Asia File: Temasek’s Malaysian governance problem: what happened next
- Yours Truly Singapore: ‘Not realistic’ for GIC to avoid making any losses

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore M.D.: HIV in Singapore

Woman No Enough
- Irreligious: There’s a Jack Neo in all of us
- Cooler Insights: The Age of (Im)Morality and Immortality
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Jack Neo Affair Scandal Press Conference
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Morality is not so easy..
- Icarus Flew Too High: Jack and George, o..
- The Lycan Times: Give us a break!
- TOC: Getting into bed with Jack Neo
- AWARE: AWARE’s comments on the Jack Neo affair [Thanks Gerald]
- The Star: Backseat frolics backfire [Thanks Gerald]

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Press Muse – Singaporeans dreaming
- New Asia Republic: Rights: The foundation of a free society
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Cease The Climate Change Lethargy
- Singapore Life and Times: A sharing we will go
- Singaporean Skeptic: Some Singaporeans are Real Bastards.

Life, the universe and everything
- Growing your tree of prosperity: If women are not choosy, men will have no standards. [Thanks Wai Chung]
- Eco WALK the talk: Knock, Knock, your Green Postman is here! [Thanks Bhavani]

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Guardian: Lehman Brothers: Repo 105 and other accounting tricks
- Reuters Dealzone: Graphic: How “Repo 105″ worked
- Reuters: Factbox: Examiner’s findings of claims against Lehman officers
- Business Insider: Will Ernst & Young Survive The Lehman Fiasco?
- AP: Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund starts to open up
- NYT Consults: Assessing Your Risk of a Heart Attack
- Guardian Gallery: Thousands protest in Bangkok

Budget 2010 Debate
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim: Increase size of cohort entering local universities

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: PAP to amend constitution to increase the number of NCMPs in Parliament

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: HDB: Homelessness due to policies? BTS better than BTO? 31,000 flats unsold, but nobody knows?
- Trapper’s Swamp: Homelessness is a policy issue

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Why not apply ‘town council logic’ to worker wages?

Twilight in Paradise. To Live and Die in SG
- Singaporean Skeptic: PAP hides the failure of their retirement policies by passing the buck to you.

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Military Life: The Tale of the (Local) Talent [Thanks Panzer]
- Petition Online: Employ Singaporeans First! [Thanks Gilbert]

Sin City
- Singapore Dino: Al Jazeera holds debate on Singapore’s Casinos
- Global Issues: Singapore: As Casino Opens, Watch for Its Social Impact Begins
- Al Jazeera English: Singapore’s big bet [Times GMT: 12 Mar-0300hrs(+8);
13 Mar-0530,1730; 14 Mar-1130; 15 Mar-1630; 16 Mar-1430; 17 Mar-0830; 18 Mar-0630] [Thanks Gerald]

Woman No Enough
- Singapore Life and Times: Grievous Hurt
- Carpe Diem: Enough with the affairs

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics.net: Sgpolitics.net salutes Tak Boleh Tahan protesters

Daily Discourse
- The Enquirer: Be careful what you wish for [Thanks Seelan]
- Zach’s Thought Blot: How Small Countries Can Take Advantage of Globalisation
- Yu-Kym’s Blog: Singapore government supports animal testing. Do you?
- My Little Corner: LTE? First Resolve the 3G problem

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Reuters: UPDATE 2-Thai Shin Corp: Temasek has no plans to sell Shin
- Reuters: Australia on top of the world for expat kids: survey
- Reuters: Scientists find “mother” of all skin cells
- BBC: The internet billionaire rich list
- NYT Automobiles: Porsche’s Stealth Debut
- Guardian Gallery: Crufts 2010: The world’s biggest dog show
- Guardian Gallery: Walking the Great Himalayan Trail
- Denver Post: The Game: World Cup Faces [large pictures]

Bhavani Prakash from Eco WALK the Talk sent this to share a footage of an elusive local bird and promote the awareness of local biodiversity. Thanks Bhavani!