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Privacy of our Politicians?
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: The slow revelations: Of First World Parliament, Transparency and Accountability
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Better Places To Mine For Stories
- Anonymous_X: Congratulations, Yaw Shin Leong!
- Tan Kin Lian: Worker’s Party and Yaw Shin Leong

Educate Our Youth
- Singapore Notes: Money Makes The Academic World Go Round
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: The Idiocy of Industry
- Yahoo: NUS students receptive to proposed fee hike

Housing
- Housing Matters: Record Breaking [Thanks Cheng]
- PropertyGuru: S’pore luxury condo dragged into M’sian scandal

CPF
- Youtube: CPF Restoration In Sight For Older Workers

Daily Disclosure
- My Singapore News: Shanmugam told US off
- Andrew Loh: Studio apartments are “death houses”?
- Food Fuels Me To Talk: English as it’s spik in Singapore
- funny little world: Who else am I missing?
- Feed Me To The Fish: Founding Fathers of Only One and Tripartism of Only Two
- Publichouse: Thoughts on caring for the elderly

A Vote For Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: State of the PAP: My light-hearted analysis based on gossip heard
- Loh and Behold: Character Recognition [Thanks Willy]
- Yahoo: ‘Singapore’s opposition facing the reality of politics’
- Singapore Democrats: More contradictions from Lee Kuan Yew over immigration policy

R.I.P Dr Toh Chin Chye
- Publichouse: The great dissenter

Stuff
- Dead Cockroach: The Malaysia I-City KFC Assault
- New Asia Republic: Where is Malaysia’s geopolitical compass pointing now?

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February 10th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- The World Class Land Transport System of Singapore: SMRT cheats their train drivers of their public holidays

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Lawrence W(r)ong(ed)? Understanding Intentions, And Addressing Education Stigmas
- All Things Singapore: Of the tactless speech by Education Minister of State Lawrence Wong
- ABDILLAH ZAMZURI: Where’s Your Creativity?
- Siew Kum Hong: Every Singaporean really does count
- Yahoo: NTU students appalled at ‘maid culture’ on campus residence

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Yawningbread: The media and Yaw Shin Leong
- All Things Singapore: Of Yaw Shin Leong’s resignation as WP’s treasurer
- Singapore Short Stories: Yaw Shin Leong, Gerald Giam ,Lina Chiam and Tan Jee Say: what happened to Singapore’s Opposition?
- Publichouse: What now, WP?

Thaipusam
- TOC: Thaipusam 2012: A photostory

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Notes: Selfish Reasons
- Yahoo: Singaporeans worried about job prospects
- Singapore Sojourn: Flying High

A Vote for Change
- Politics: NUS Political & Youth Forums
- Today: NMP selection process needs change

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- Jason Cheng’s FB: Just another rant
- Andrew Loh: The drugs scourge

Infoblogamus
- Remember Singapore: Grand Mansions, Bungalows and Villas of the Past
- ALVINOLOGY: Aaron Tan vs Steven Lim: Who is telling the truth?
- Otterman Speaks: 70th anniversary of WW2 – exhibitions launch at NLB

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Singapore Headlines from Mainstream Media
- CNA: Employers’ contributions to older workers’ CPF to be raised: PM Lee
- CNA: NUS submits proposal for tuition fee changes
- Today: S$30 million more in funding for family services
- ST: Worried parents taking children to psychologists

February 9th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

R.I.P Dr Toh Chin Chye

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- Today: PM Lee’s eulogy for the late Dr Toh Chin Chye [Thanks Cheng]
- Remember Singapore: Tribute to Dr Toh Chin Chye (1921-2012)

Thaipusam
- Singapore Actually: Thaipusam 2012 in Singapore
- The Long and Winding Road: Thaipusam at Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple

Defending OUR Lion City
- Senang Diri: Singapore Police Force (SPF) computer forensics detectives zero in on Internet hoaxes; many brought to justice after rigorous police investigations
- Yahoo: Mindef denies copying doctors’ mobile clinic idea

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Prata Politics: Yaw Stupid Cockhead, Not Thinking Ahead?
- Blogging for Myself: MP Yaw resigns as WP’s Treasurer

Daily Disclosure
- Diary of a Singapore Cabby: Pot-Luck for “Lo Hei” [Thanks WJ]
- Gintai_昇泰: Retard at Nanyang Polytechnic
- Yummy Chrispytine…Still: The Maid. [Thanks Lilian]
- Everything Also Complain: Sumiko Tan had shark’s fin soup coming out of her ears

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The “new poor” revisited
- A Singaporean in Australia: Opposition Parties – Just a Bunch of Crabs in a Bucket
- Singapore 2B: What opposition voters want: PAP II
- Yahoo: Does Singapore need NMPs?
- TOC: Why are public sector appointments shrouded in secrecy?

Housing
- PropertyGuru: Foreigners snap up fewer homes
- Today: Living conditions can be affected by subletting

Strangers in a Strange Land
- A Singaporean In Australia: The Australian Government Says The Same Thing Too

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Wall Street Journal: Migrant Worker Sit-In Makes Waves in Singapore

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- Desparatebeep: Arrested but Not Really…..

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February 8th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

R.I.P Dr Toh Chin Chye

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- Remember Singapore: Tribute to Dr Toh Chin Chye (1921-2012) [Thanks Wayne]

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- TOC: Construction workers strike at Tampines

Budget 2012
- Political Writings: What Budget Debate?

Daily Disclosure
- Hermione Poh’s FB: Nothing “wrong” with Woodlands residents
- Yahoo: ‘Anyone can do it as long as you don’t give up’

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- InSing: Home team probe: Mystery woman exposed?

The Gospel of Harry
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Unfair statement? “Unless we have more babies, Singapore needs to accept immigrants.”

Educate Our Youth
- Where Bears Roam Free: MOE’s confusing signal on role of teachers
- mrbrown.com: Primary Three Math

CPF
- MCYS: Special Needs Savings Scheme for parents to set aside CPF Funds for children with disabilities [Thanks Vince]

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Yahoo: MBS, RWS fined for social safeguard breaches

Stuff
- ALVINOLOGY: Steven Lim Is Jioing Aaron Tan To A Fight!

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February 7th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

R.I.P Dr Toh Chin Chye

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- CNA: Remember Dr Toh Chin Chye
- Singapore 2025: Thank you Dr Toh Chin Chye. RIP.
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Because They Don’t Need Another Hero – Dr Toh Chin Chye
- Singapore Notes: Value Of Friends
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Dr. Toh Chin Chye : He fought his own party…
- Sgpolitics.net: Remembering Dr Toh Chin Chye
- Singapore Politics: Part II: True Founders of Singapore [Thanks Ravin]
- Publichouse: “We are not going to become somebody’s colony”
- Yahoo: Tributes pour in for Dr Toh Chin Chye

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Dear Straits Times, Give Singapore’s Educators A Break
- The Dead Cockroach: 我长大了想做贪官 I Wanna Be A Greedy Corrupt Official When I Grow Up
- New Nation: Student to parents: Lay off the incredible iPad
- TOC: In defense of young Singaporean adults
- Asia News Network: The young Singaporean adult

A Vote for Change
- LEESJUANPAT WORLD: Transcript of my interview with Dr Kieran James on GE 2011
- Tan Jee Say: The internal matter at SPP
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Chiams: Please “go gentle into that good night”
- Thank Happiness: Singapore Parliament replies on its accessibility
- The Star Online: Opposition at odds with one another [Thanks George]

Daily Disclosure
- Everything Also Complain: Elder-care centres bring more deaths
- nofearSingapore: Woodlands “not in my backyard” syndrome and how politicians should overcome this together

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Tan Chuan Jin’s FB: Bukit Brown…work in progress
- Z’ming Cik FB: The Roots of a Nation and the Question of Value (It’s not only about Bukit Brown!)

Budget 2012
- Today: Get to the social root of the problem

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Jobs in Singapore – 54,000 Job vacancies: Really?

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- InSing: Female sales execs sleeping with clients?

The Gospel of Harry
- A Singaporean in Australia: Can We Still Trust Lee Kuan Yew?

Defending OUR Lion City
- Senang Diri: 70th Anniversary of the Fall of Singapore: Usque Ad Astra (“All the way to the heavens”)

Infoblogamus
- Blog To Express: Ways Done in the Past – Home Delivery
- BBC: Rolls-Royce gears up for Singapore production [Thanks Adrian]

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February 6th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

R.I.P Dr Toh Chin Chye

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- CNA: PAP founding member Toh Chin Chye dies

Singapore ‘ponded’
- TOC: Urbanisation contributes the most to worsening flood conditions

Educate Our Youth
- Where Bears Roam Free: S’poreans less hungry and have less drive? But what is hunger and drive?
- Sgpolitics: Time for Singapore to start supporting local talent
- Singapore Notes: Drivers For Motivation
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Seven reasons why Singaporeans are not entrepreneurial enough

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- thenumerologyofour.blogspot.com: Malaysia’s Top Politicians’ Monthly Salaries [Thanks Willy]

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Does the WP sincerely want a First-World Parly and Media?

Daily Disclosure
- Limpeh is Foreign Talent: Q&A: Ah Beng vs Atas? Kenapa awak tiada class lah? [Thanks Alex]
- Expat Bostonians: Wheels
- SEA Youth Say So: The Language Woes of a Young Singaporean

A Vote for Change
- New Nation: Why there will never be opposition unity
- Chemical Generation Singapore: The New Mock Parliamentarians

Blueprint for a Sin City
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Sees More Foreign Gamblers

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February 3rd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Educate Our Youth
- A Yummy Slice of Life: Some further thoughts for Min(Education)

Daily Disclosure
- The Manpower Blog: From Rabbit to Dragon – What Lies Ahead for the Labour Market 2012? [Thanks Cheng]
- Publichouse: What’s wrong with these Woodlands residents?
- New Nation: Paranoia is a legitimate feeling

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Lobbyists, make up your mind! Death Penalty or Mandatory Death Penalty?
- TOC: Death penalty has contributed to low rates of drug use? Where’s the proof?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- A Singaporean In Australia: Only Pinoys Please, No Dogs and Singaporeans
- TOC: Jobs in Singapore – 2011 income growth, 1% or 0.7%?

Privacy of our Politicians?
- TRE: An open letter to Yaw Shin Leong [Thanks HC]

A Vote for Change
- Freshgrads.sg: Young Guns
- Yahoo: Chiam See Tong explains CEC drama, clarifies focus
- TOC: We wish SPP and Mrs Chiam all the best
- Publichouse: Does S’pore need a more activist Gov’t?

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- TOC: Effective ethical standards in Singapore

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: PM Lee : Being poor in Singapore is better than being poor elsewhere!

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – Former SMRT CEO
- Singapore Notes: SMRT Numbers Game

Infoblogamus
- Market Watch: Singapore Scientists Lead in 3D Mapping of Human Genome to Help Understand Human Diseases
- sixpegs: Abigail Chay. Amos Yee. Aaron Tan.
- Remember Singapore: Pictorial Gallery of Bronze Sculptures in Singapore
- The Malaysian Insider: Yours or mine? — Lim Mun Fah

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Miveu: Turn your iPhone into a POV Camera
- USA Today: Facebook files for IPO

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February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

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Daily Disclosure
- Unbranded BreadnButter FB: Foreign talent and Local perseverance in Singapore sports
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The plight of Singapore’s son Fandi Ahmad….
- Kall Geez’s FB: Thoughts on MOM’s Employment Situation 2011
- Remember Singapore: The Disappearing Chee Pow Kai and Hum Chim Peng
- Food Fuels Me to Talk: LTA, do something fundamental re taxis!
- Singapore Sojourn: The Cycle of Decay [Thanks Roger]
- Ryan Goh: Life through these eyes: Essential skills: cutting people off from my life
- TOC: Rethinking Volunteerism: By volunteers, for volunteers

We are against capital punishment
- Publichouse: Human rights lawyer disagrees with lawyers’ association

Educate Our Youth
- A Singaporean Says: Finnish schools [Thanks Huiyi]
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Education Minister Heng: “Scholarships Reinforce The Ethos Of Public Service”
- Singapore Notes: Radical Solutions Needed

A Vote for Change
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Disaster Hits SPP
- Yawningbread: To lose one party may be regarded as a misfortune, but three?
- Yahoo: Confusion within SPP?

Healthcare
- Singapore M.D: Dreams vs Reality
- Ray of Light: Letter to The New Paper: Others could have stepped in to help couple

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PM’s salary in 1970 and in 2012
- Today: Big difference between a ‘fraction’ and ‘poorly-paid’

Defending OUR Lion City
- Pilgrimage: The case for female National Service [Thanks Joel]
- Vicky’s Writings: Mother of a Soldier

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- ALVINOLOGY: [VIDEO] Real-life Heroes in Action – SCDF puts out fire and explosions at Bukit Batok East Ave 3

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Temasek Revealed: TREmeritus sensationalizing anti-WP rumors to increase readership [Thanks George]
- Straitstimes: Yaw rumours: It should be ‘yes’ or ‘no’, not mum’s the word [Thanks Cheng]

Infoblogamus
- pressrun.net: Singapore unemployment at 14-year low, median income up
- Wall Street Journal: Whose Veggies Are They Anyway?

Tech
- The Guardian: Facebook’s quietly confident IPO

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February 1st, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Housing
- PropertyGuru: Fewer real estate agents in Singapore
- Housing Matters: A Very Busy First Year [Thanks Cheng]
- Property Report Asia: Singapore’s cooling measures show effect

Singapore ‘ponded’
- Singapore Notes: Money Down The Drain
- Yahoo: ‘Engineering solutions will not help S’pore’s flash flood problem’

Educate Our Youth
- Figuring how faith fits into this world, & other stuff On The Revised Law School Admission Criteria [Thanks Eve!]
- Yale Daily News: DANIELS: Academic freedom is alive in Singapore
- Yahoo: No student freedom at NUS: former student

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Lobbyists’ non-disclosure incriminates Yong Vui Kong further

A Vote for Change
- Osman Sulaiman: Searching for the Holy Grail of Politics [Thanks Ravin]
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: TJS: The song, not the singer?
- Publichouse: Beyond the elusive oppo-unity [Thanks Weixian]
- The Real Thing Is: MG Chan Chun Sing – PAP – Elitist? Arrogant?
- InSing: Tan Jee Say may be cause of SPP’s internal rife

Singapore in World Cup, in 2010 2014 2018 2022
- Today: hy we should leave the S-League behind [Thanks Adrian]

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: Israel Dominates the Debate in Malaysia – Again
- ALVINOLOGY: Steven Lim Brand “Human Body Sushi” Anyone?

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January 31st, 2012 | Tags: Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Daily Disclosure
- guanyinmiao’s musings: The Online “Death” Hoax: Temasek Revealed’s Oversight
- Everything Also Complain: Temasek Revealed’s Hoax NSF death
- Reflections and Ruminations: My first protest march
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Q&A: Aura on racism [Thanks Alex]
- Zaobao: 面对大型连锁超市登陆竞争 邻里商店巴刹生意跌两成

Defending OUR Lion City
- Singapore Notes: The New Army
- ALVINLOGY: SAF personnel not allowed to sit in crowded MRT train while in uniform?
- TOC: Unfair discrimination of Malays in National Service

Educate Our Youth
- Chen Jiaxi Bernard 陈家喜 FB Note: A letter to Max de La Bruyère, Editor-in-Chief of Yale Daily News
- Random Thoughts of a Free Thinker: NUS, an unfree university, really?
- The Blue Sweater: For the Sake of Freedom
- Yale Daily News: VINCOLI: No student freedom at NUS
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Cost of financing medical study abroad for Singaporean: $600, 000!

A Vote for Change
- New Asia Republic: Personality politics plagues Singapore
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: State of the Opposition Update: My light-hearted analysis based on gossip heard
- Singapore 2025: Questions filed and asked in Parliament: January 2012
- Yawningbread: Smoking out tobacco control and foreign student scholarships

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s 5.2 million ignorant residents
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Scandal January in Singapore….
- TOC: Former CNB chief was probed by CPIB in 2010

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Wilson Ho’s FB: Screw the Goat? . Duh? [Thanks Willy]
- Blogging for Myself: Where is Hougang MP Yaw?
- Sgpolitics.net: Mainstream and alternative media: Stop the Yaw Shin Leong witch hunt
- TRE: Yaw & WP, keeping silent is not an option

We are against capital punishment
- funny little world: Fighting false assertion with false assertion.
- Where Bears Roam Free: Yong Vui Kong’s case getting murkier and murkier

Infoblogamus
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) remarks are ‘false assertions’ and ‘inaccurate’, says Law Ministry

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January 30th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- The Gigamole Diaries: The SCDF and CNB done in by a local Matahari?
- My Singapore News: Is sexual misconduct a seizable offence?

Privacy of our Politicians?
- Everything Also Complain: Yaw Shin Leong and the Other Opposition woman
- Singapore Kopi Tok: Promising MP and Civil Servants – From Sex to Scandals to Stupidity
- Blogging for Myself: A “Bad Apple” in WP basket?
- New Nation: Why should anyone care if Yaw Shin Leong screws a goat?
- Yahoo: WP MP Yaw Shin Leong embroiled in online storm

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: The Dark Side is preparing for 2016 GE
- Tan Jee Say: Chinese New Year walkabout in Ang Mo Kio on Saturday 21 Jan 2012
- Political Writings: How Not To Be A Politician
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: PM gives transport workers a boost on the first day of the Chinese New Year
- Singapore Democrats: Why the delay in reporting news of such magnitude?
- TOC: PAP supporters are the ‘silent majority’?
- Sgpolitics.net: The Barren Political Landscape

Welfare is a dirty word in Stingypore
- TOC: Ethnic based self-help system – broken?

Housing
- Housing Matters: LEGO’s The Way
- Today: Housing data not quite yet complete [Thanks Adrian]

Educate Our Youth
- Yee Jenn Jong: I Not Stupid (小孩不笨)

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Transient Workers Count 2: How low can a salary go

Daily Disclosure
- A Singaporean Says: What can we learn from British grammar/state/private schools? [Thanks SP]
- George Yeo: China’s Parallel Universe published in SCMP, LHZB, ST, Huffington Post [Thanks Cheng]
- Yawningbread: Non-Chinese at Chinese New Year
- Social Media & Digital Marketing in Singapore: Is Social Media A Fad?
- Where Bears Roam Free: Inherent flaw in S’pore’s Employment Act pertaining to AWS
- Empty Vessel: Why I don’t feel sorry for Kodak
- Senang Diri: Royal Malaysian Air Force to send largest contingent of warplanes to Singapore Airshow

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Today: Does money really buy clean government? [Thanks Wee]

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January 27th, 2012 | Tags: HDB, PAP, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics, WP | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

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Integrity · Service · Excellence
- The Gigamole Diaries: High salaries discourages corruption? A reality check.
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Dangerously Poking in the Year of the Dragon
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Corruption – Many shapes and forms…
- Loh and Behold: Be Honest with Citizens Please! [Thanks Annabel]
- SG Boleh: Senior SCDF and CNB Officers under Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau investigation
- Tan Kin Lian: Investigation for corrupt practices
- Feed Me To The Fish: Corruption? What’s That?
- New Asia Republic: Senior MHA officials under CPIB investigation
- New Nation: Chinese tabloid Lianhe Wanbao the unlikeliest hero?
- Yahoo: ‘CPIB probe pivotal in demonstrating trustworthiness of gov’t’

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Reflections on Change: Ministerial Salaries Review — Do Most Roads Lead to Rome? [Thanks James]
- Bryan Ti’s FB: The Debate that WP Apparently Lost (Its Way). Or Did It? [Thanks WIlly]

Daily Disclosure
- Ministry Of Love And Justice: Evangalical Rubbish In A Church.
- A Singaporean In Australia: Dragon Year Baby Myth of Singapore
- Trash Thoughts: The Online Citizen – The safe haven for (former) Worker Party cadres [Thanks Andy]
- Senang Diri: Rail security matters for Singapore: Questions to mull over
- Temasekrevealed: JUST FOR LAUGHS: CREATIVE AH LOONG

Healthcare
- Today: Extra charges on Medisave withdrawals should be waived [Thanks Adrian]

Educate Our Youth
- Yawningbread: Education system a high stakes board game
- Visakan Veerasamy: Disparity in tertiary education facilities

A Vote for Change
- Political Writings: The 100: Top 10 Political Writings
- Musings From the Lion City: Not What They Need
- Today: Residents’ concerns are acted upon

January 26th, 2012 | Tags: CNB, Corruption, CPIB, Integrity, PAP, Public Service Division, SCDF, Singapore, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics, WP | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

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Integrity · Service · Excellence
- ALVINOLOGY: Getting to Know the Commissioner of the SCDF, Peter Lim Sin Pang and CNB Chief, Ng Boon Gay
- Everything Also Complain: SCDF and CNB chiefs seriously misconducting themselves
- Singapore Notes: A Bad Dose Of Crap
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Corruption practices at government bodies – more deterrent measures needed?

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Random Thoughts of a Free Thinker: Going Beyond Salaries
- yawningbread: Cut in ministers’ pay is good, but detailed mechanisms matter
- Yours Truly Singapore: Heated words over hot topic
- TOC: Pay for Performance
- New Asia Republic: Designing KPIs that are Robust to Manipulation: KPIs, Salaries and Incentivised Action
- Today: Why Singapore has the cleanest govt money can buy: Bloomberg

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: News submerged in “ponding”?
- Otterman Speaks: This search engine sucks! Instead of IDA’s ‘Enhanced Singapore Government Online Search’, just google
- Abdillah Zamzuri: $32 Mosque Thief Unrepentant
- The Blue Sweater: Mind Your Language II: What did you say?

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: More than 150 overseas appeals to spare Yong Vui Kong

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Yahoo: He fights for foreign workers

Infoblogamus
- New Nation: Photographers spotted in the wild

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: Indonesian Detained for Facebook Post

January 25th, 2012 | Tags: CNB, Corruption, CPIB, Integrity, PAP, Public Service Division, SCDF, Singapore, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics, WP | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

Daily Disclosure
- TRE: Exclusive: Core member of opposition party alleged to be having extramarital affair
- Temasek Revealed: TREmeritus Infiltrated with Anti-WP Elements
- Hardwarezone Forums: Exclusive: Core member of reputable opposition party alleged to have committed extramarital affair [Thanks Chen]

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Blogging for Myself: Fatigue over the Pay Debate

January 21st, 2012 | Tags: PAP, Singapore, Singapore Politics, WP, Yaw Shin Leong | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynival Investor: From Zeroes to Dragons: What KJ, GMS, PA, Tin & Han should do
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Who Is Better/Worst? The Thief OR The Beggar?
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Why Bother Writing About Singapore Online?
- musings: Maid = Modern Day Slave ?

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Ministerial Pay : Why the man on the street is right and PM Lee is wrong…Part 2
- pressrun.net: Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore must not be a Third World country
- Reinventing The Rice Bowl: The PM on Paying For Talent !
- TOC: Ministerial Salary – It’s not (just) about the Money
- Today: Why the adversarial tone during salary debate?

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Death Penalty: Ramalingan Ravinthran, another blooper by anti-death penalty lobbyists?

Infoblogamus
- TOC: Some Fundamental Aspects about Floods

Stuff
- Only William: Handsome Guys you seen… Now Pretty Girls for you

January 20th, 2012 | Tags: PAP, Singapore, Singapore Culture, Singapore Politics | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- [ insights, interests, in transition ]: Wahh! Millionaire! – Ministerial Pay cut
- nofearSingapore: Singaporeans do not accept politicians’ revised pay – blame it on PAP and Gini
- From Hri to all Thomsoners: Ministerial Salaries [Thanks George]
- The Blue Sweater: Peculiar Justifications
- Political Writings: Are PAP Ministers Man Enough?
- Molitics: Kuan Yew Tells Honest Truths About Singapore
- Singapore Recalcitrant: A Stand-up Comedian
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Ministerial Pay : Why the man on the street is right and PM Lee is wrong.
- Wall Street Journal: Salaries Cut, Singapore Leaders Are Still Well-Paid
- TOC: Salaries that are beyond reach, must still be logical

Housing
- Yahoo: Khaw proves point by releasing median Q4 COV figures

Truth, Justice and the Singapore Way
- Unbranded BreadnButter’s FB: Siow ah! Who wants to assassinate PAPies?
- New Nation: Man hauled to court for inciting violence on Facebook
- Loh and Behold: Who Says Life is Fair? [Thanks Annabel]
- TOC: How fair is our criminal justice system?

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Yawningbread: Wage differential between low and high end vocations unusually high in Singapore

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Locals’ pay $3000 to $4000, expats $7000 to $8000 – same job scope!

Daily Disclosure
- Blogging for Myself: Bad time for home visits Mr. MP
- Leong Sze Hian: Poor children have 10% chance of making it to the top?
- ALVINOLOGY: 14-year-old Singapore Filmmaker/ Actor Amos Yee Insults Chinese New Year with Thick American Accent in Video
- The Real Thing Is: Dr Tan Cheng Bock – Pension, Annual Report, Presidency

January 19th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Unbranded BreadnButter’s FB: Political salary: It’s all a political wayang
- New Nation: Ministerial pay review: Why our political leaders are dooming us all
- Molitics: Lessons from Hsien Loong: How to be Right and Out of Sync
- PIPALA TREE: Solid.
- Yours Truly Singapore: Ministeria​l salary 2012
- life one degree north, one-o-three degrees east: Math 101 for Ministers
- Singapore Notes: Flogging A Dead Horse

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yahoo: FT policy may have helped widen income gap: panel

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Uniting the Opposition: Framework for Consensus

Daily Disclosure
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Is It Realistic To Encourage Off-Peak Train Travel In Singapore?
- Alex Lew 刘彦良: My taxi fare opinions

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Wikipedia going offline to protest against SOPA

January 18th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

(Cartoon Credit: Demon-cratic Singapore)

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: DPM Teo : Don’t compare S’pore ministerial pay with other countries
- Molitics: Teo Chee Hean: To compare, or not to compare?
- Blogging for Myself: Political Salaries
- Everything Also Complain: Chan Chun Sing’s Chai Tau Kway
- Kall Geez: Revised Income Tax, Ministerial Pay & other random thoughts
- visakan veerasamy: Ministerial Pay! Beyond The Balancing Act: The Question We Need To Ask.
- Today Online: Ministerial pay vs talent
- PAP’s Denise Phua: Current pay system not an option
- The Workers’ Party: Chen Show Mao’s speech on Ministerial Salary Review
- SG Hard Truth: WP plans differ little from recommendations: PAP MPs
- Ravi Philemon: Workers’ Party’s proposal on Ministerial salaries is the clearest yet
- Siew Kum Hong: We not stupid, ok?
- Fabrications About The PAP: Tan Cheng Bock’s claim about ministerial pension

A Vote for Change
- Yahoo: PAP incapable of reinventing itself: Catherine Lim
- Musings From the Lion City: I Disagree With Catherine Lim
- WSJ: Singapore Inc. Needs a Rethink, Economists Say

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- publichouse.sg: Do not lean against the door – it may open

Catch the Falling Sky!
- Leong Sze Hian: Electricity tariff: Did fuel component increase by 181 percent?

Daily Discourse
- Xu Si Han: Restoring balance to the law of copyright
- TOC: Don’t give up on Singapore’s Special Olympics
- Otterman speaks…: Many die for that single illegal animal purchase
- The Long and Winding Road: Chingay returns with a big splash!

January 17th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

(Cartoon Credit: The Sketch Times)

A Vote for Change
- Everything Also Complain: Singaporeans suffering from PAP fatigue
- Trash Thoughts: (Unlicensed) Property Agent in the News again
- My Singapore News: Tin Pei Ling
- Publichouse: Wassup with your MPs?

Disappearing Dollars from DBS
- Singapore Notes: Damn Bloody Stupid

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Chapter Two: Reload: Of salaries, value and hypocrisy
- Convex Set: On the Ministerial Salary Review
- 卮言优语: 滥杀无辜

Daily Disclosure
- Singapore Sojourn: The Greening of Singapore
- The Temple of Thoughts 3: What is wrong with Stomp.com.sg
- Furry Brown Dog: In praise of the new media

Housing
- Yahoo: New measures have already dampened property market

TOC turns 5
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: TOC’s Fifth Anniversary
- Feed Me To The Fish: Friday 13, 2012 – TOC 5th Birthday & Awards Night
- TOC: TOC Awards Night – The award recipients
- TOC: Ng E-Jay – TOC’s Blogger of the Year

Infoblogamus
- Yahoo: S’porean gymnast qualifies for Olympics in historic first
- Good Morning Yesterday: Typewriter

Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Fusion Garage goes into liquidation

January 16th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment