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Internet Vigilantes
- Anything & Whatever: What happens when Netizens & Websites are plain irresponsible?
- SG Hard Truth: “I am all for the harmony of this neighborhood, I believe that disputes should generally be settled face to face through mutual sharing between parties involved”. – Mr Alex Yam

Underaged Services
- Singapore Notes: Technically Flawed
- Gintai: 44 Itchy Monkeys & One Lascivious Imp
- ALVINOLOGY: An Underage Prostitute and 44 + 4 (NEW) Horny Men in Singapore【名人嫖雏妓案】

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Circle Line breaks down and COE hits $92K….
- Musings From the Lion City: Hearing Of The Breakdowns
- Today: MRT inquiry seems to be moving on the wrong track

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Blaxell in Words: A quick post on Prof Lim’s wage proposal
- Where Bears Roam Free: Lim Chong Yah echoes PAP’s “heads I win, tails you lose” hogwash
- Sgpolitics.net: Prof Lim provides clarification on his Economic Restructuring II proposals
- TOC: How long more will NTUC short-change Singaporean workers?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Singapore Human Resource Consultants recruiting from Indonesia when Singaporeans can do the job

Defending OUR Lion City
- The Singapore Sports Fan Says: MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO DOMINIQUE SARRON LEE’S FAMILY

Daily Disclosure
- Political Writings: When Will You See The Light, PAP?
- Expat Bostonians: Ways that living in Singapore has changed me…
- Loh and Behold: Bite Not the Hand that Feeds You [Thank Alan]
- TOC: What practice has taught me

Singapore Sports Scene
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Why S’porean bid for Rangers might fail

Educate Our Youth
- The Liberal Arts in Singapore: (To) Be Critical: An Insider View
- New Asia Republic: Two sides of the Yale-NUS equation

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: Vietnamese Bloggers Charged For “Anti-State Propaganda”
- Wired: North Korea Spent a Whole $15 Making Its Website

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

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Where Bears Roam Free: SMRT inquiry – sharp Chief District Judge sends strong message, “Don’t mess with me”
- Gintai: COI – Train Breakdown Inquiry
- Yahoo: Train service on Circle Line disrupted from One-North to Bishan
- Yawningbread: Time to demote some gods from the altar

Singapore Day!
- mf’s mini world of mf-ism: I *heart* Sg > NY
- SpeakSpokeWriteWrote: Singapore Day 2012 – NYC

Defending OUR Lion City
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Deaths Of Singapore’s National Servicemen: Where Do We Go From Here?

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Sgpolitics.net: Prof Lim Chong Yah’s proposals are timely and should be implemented
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Wage Debate Heats Up

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- funny little world: Will Obama, Mitt, Newt and Mike want our brand of news?

Healthcare
- nofearSingapore: “That used to be us” -Why I speak out against excessive bureaucracy”

Daily Disclosure
- Donald Low’s FB: Squaring the Circle the Scandinavian Way
- Anonymous_X: 44 Perverts, and 1 underage prostitute, and 1 entrepreneurial pimp! Oh, my!
- Loh and Behold: To Err is Human, But it’ll get you Public Praise
- TOC: $5 benefit for every tax dollar a fairytale?

Infoblogamus
- Unravelling 1987: Tan Wah Piow in the UK: Exiled [Thanks Leonard]

Local Talents
- Unbranded bread n butter: Cheap Thrills: Free Live Music at the Singapore Arts Festival (19 May)

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April 18th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Shock Therapy for Wages
- Palady: The Great Divide in Wages
- Gintai: Professor Lim Chong Yah – The Devil’s Advocate
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: So What’s The Story?
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: The Lim Chong Yah wage gap conundrum
- My Singapore News: Lim Chong Yah’s model no productivity
- Publichouse: Shock therapy? But where is this ship headed?
- New Asia Republic: 陈清木补选预测，林崇椰加薪建议，是帮了行动党还是倒了行动党的忙
- Today: Two sides of wage reform coin [Thanks Adrian]

Singapore’s World Class Public Transport
- Canvasing Light: Massive Retarded Transportation
- Singapore Notes: Round One

Housing
- PropertyGuru: Loss of foreign talent affecting private property rentals
- Wall Street Journal: More Risk in Singapore Housing Market

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Jobless engineer terminated unfairly by PRC Chinese boss and replaced by a Indian foreigner
- TOC: Need for new immigrants to be integrated into our multi-racial society

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Analysing Temasek’s investment in another Chinese bank

Daily Disclosure
- Blaxell in Words: Do Singaporeans pay high taxes?
- Musings From the Lion City: The Trial Of Anders Behring Breivik
- BERNARD CHEN JIAXI 陈家喜: Sparing a thought for the people behind the management of your estate
- A Singaporean In Australia: The Sad Singapore Love Story
- Anything & Whatever: Social Media:- negative(negative) = positive ?
- Yahoo: S’pore Day in New York a hit but will it bring home local talent?

Educate Our Youth
- Kent Ridge Common: Preserving Yale’s Exclusive, Elite Identity and Community
- New Asia Republic: Examining Yale-NUS’ Curriculum and the Efficacy of Liberal Arts Education in Singapore
- New Nation: Yale College faculty resolution disappointing, says Tommy Koh.

Stuff
- The Guardian: China’s censorship can never defeat the internet
- Hornbill Unleashed: ISA removed but sword of Damocles remains

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

Uniquely Singapore
- The Craftsman’s Forge: There’s Much To Be Seen at The Punggol Park Connector
- Youtube: Punggol Waterway Walk Part 1 [Thanks Dr Chan]
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Chemicals sprayed at Chek Jawa

Healthcare
- New Nation: Woman arrested with 100 packets of condoms

Shock Therapy for Wages
- My Singapore News: Lim Chong Yah’s shock therapy timely
- Blogging for Myself: Thumbs up to Lim Chong Yah
- Singapore Short Stories: Lim Chong Yah’s wage shock therapy for Singapore economical restructuring good for Singapore Stocks Market?
- Yawningbread: Softly, softly, will not narrow income gap
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Analysing Ngiam Tong Dow’s March 2012 speech (Part I)
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Breaking out from the cycle of cheap labor and low productivity.
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Breaking out from the cycle of cheap labor and low productivity….Part 2
- Freak Thoughts: Singapore Income Disparity – 2012 Edition

Hougang By-Election
- Singapore Public Law: Hougang By-election Case: The State of Play
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: By-election: When?

Singapore’s World Class Transport System
- Zit Seng’s Superwall: The Singapore-Class Transport System [Thanks Boon Peng]

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Singapore Law Review: A Home(or Hell) away from Home? Foreign workers in Singapore
- Transient Workers Count Too: Welcome To Our Private Hell: 30 Men, 4 Beds

Daily Disclosure
- Gintai: Majority versus Minority rights?
- Mr Wang Says So: Show and Tell in Korea
- Andrew Loh: An inclusive society – in 10 years?
- Everything Also Complain: Singapore Day an expensive exercise in futility

377a
- SGCGO.com: Lesbians in Singapore [video documentary]
- PinkDot: We had a blast at PinkDot Launch Weekend!

Educate our Youth
- SG Hard Truth: Yale resolution wrong, says former American

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Sayang, Sayang

Infoblogamus
- Singapore Liblogarian: P. Krishnan: His literary Journey

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

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Integrity · Service · Excellence
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Report of the Public Accounts Committee: Wassup with MIB?
- Big Talk Singapore (大话新加坡): Singapore Government Agencies missing money

Daily Disclosure
- TOC: Fuel cost price goes down but tariff goes up!
- Sgpolitics.net: Net Economic Value (NEV) possibly the worst framework ever adopted by civil service

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Blogging for Myself: Lim Chong Yah’s wage shock therapy
- TRE: Prof Lim Chong Yah’s “shock therapy ” – Economic Restructuring Delayed 33 years

Hougang By-Election
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP in Hougang: Young blood, old ideas
- Article 14: The Houngang by-election case – The decision to grant leave
- Yahoo: AG erred in filing appeal on Hougang by-election case: Ravi

Housing
- LIVING HEALTHY, STAYING WEALTHY: $900k For HDB

Educate Our Youth
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: The Yale-NUS Saga continues part 1 of 2
- Where Bears Roam Free: Hypocritical Yale passes hypocritical Yale-NUS resolution
- Today: The Yale-NUS controversy in perspective
- Goh Wei Leong’s FB: 属于我的华侨中学 / My Chinese High School Experience

Singapore Sports Scene
- Today: Treat LionsXII players as adults [Thanks Adrian!]

Uniquely Singapore
- New Nation: Not sure if justice served…
- alawstudentinsingapore: A Few of My Favourite Things

Stuff
- Fresh Grads: The Will To Rebuild

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April 13th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Mission Impossible?
- visakan veerasamy: Mission: To Interview Singapore’s Prime Minster, Lee Hsien Loong

Housing
- Andrew Loh: A Singaporean’s hunt for a HDB flat – and getting stumped by crazy COVs

Healthcare
- Yahoo: Health subsidies for PRs to be cut: MOH

Shock Therapy for Wages
- Food Fuels Me To Talk: Step one to another 1985 recession?
- Singapore Democrats: Lim Chong Yah’s comments expose Workfare scheme failure

Daily Disclosure
- Unravelling 1987: Who is Tan Wah Piow? “I will not go around shopping for justice in Singapore.” [Thanks Leonard]
- Singapore Notes: Good Riddance To The ISA
- Anything & Whatever: Not In My Backyard, Frontyard or Courtyard
- A Singaporean In Australia: The Quest to Revive Singapura Semangat
- Support site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Can one survives in Singapore without a degree?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Padaly : China Bus Drivers: Licence to drive or “kill?” [Thanks Alan]
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Les Singapouriens de souche? (Indigenous Singaporeans)

A Vote for Change
- Jentrified Citizen: Speaking Up is Not Anti-Singapore
- TOC: Disassembling GRC system benefits PAP (Part 3 of 3)
- TRE: Withering Talent, Defiance of Peoples’ Will or Really Difficult to Govern

Oh My God
- the paradoX files: Sensational News on ‘Church Wall Defaced …’ / A Debate on Secularism and Religious Harmony

Uniquely Singapore
- The Long and Winding Road: Voids that have filled our lives

Tech
- New Nation: Sim Wong Hoo rises up like a phoenix

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April 12th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Shock Therapy for Wages
- Where Bears Roam Free: Prof Lim Chong Yah from PAP camp, thinks like PAP
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Lim Chong Yah : Singapore’s Inequality approaching dangerous levels.

Educate Our Youth
- The Blue Sweater: More Than Bricks and Mortar
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: What the Yale-NUS fiasco reveals
- The Kent Ridge Common: Show Singaporeans some respect
- TRE: Elitist shadow play: NUS-Yale

A Vote for Change
- seksi matashutyrmouf: The opposition in Singapore
- TOC: Disassembling GRC system benefits PAP (Part 2 of 3)

Hougang By-Election
- Yahoo: Hougang by-election case meets threshold to be heard: Judge

Healthcare
- Singapore Notes: Don’t Get Sick
- The Gigamole Diaries: Regulation of medical devices? What shocking news?

Daily Disclosure
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Rising electricity prices: Tell us the truth
- isaw-isphy: Philanthropy and Succession
- Furry Brown Dog: Tharman’s remarks in the context of the evolving foreign talent policy
- My Little Corner: Why local talents are better
- New Asia Republic: Why copyright laws should be abolished Pt.2

Uniquely Singapore
- Poskod.sg: FOTO-FOTO: Capitol Theatre

Infoblogamus
- Temasek Hedge: BT: Beware “Gold Buy Back” companies
- Singapore Sojourn: The Singapore National Collections Online

Stuff
- Wall Street Journal: Malaysian Activists Still Worry Over Country’s Security Laws

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April 11th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Hougang By-Election
- Yahoo: Dr Tan Cheng Bock: Will PM Lee call for more than one by-election?

Nun-themed Party
- Musings: On The Escape Chapel Party, A Sinful Woman, And Divine Love & Grace [Thanks Eve]
- Everything Also Complain: Cosplay Chapel party scandalous to the Church

Educate Our Youth
- Seksi Matashutyrmouf : Yale-NUS [Thanks Siete]
- Wind in a field: Yale-NUS: Yes, why should we work with Yale?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Substandard Journalistic Reporting at Today Newspaper [Thanks Stephen]
- Where Bears Roam Free: MOE leaves many questions unanswered

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- A Yummy Slice of Life: The Laughing Stock of Singapore Government Sponsored “Heritage”
- Rojak Librarian: See Tiong Wah and family (Bukit Brown)
- Zaobao: 咖啡山研究者新发现 坟墓后人拥有契约

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- Blogger without Borders: Is Singapore really so civilized? New policies on domestic workers make me wonder.

Healthcare
- Sgpolitics.net: Speaking out on healthcare

A Vote for Change
- TOC: Disassembling GRC system benefits PAP (Part 1 of 3)

Daily Disclosure
- Words of The Cze: Thomas
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Yet another PRC bus driver knocking down pedestrians – school boy in Woodlands injured [Thanks Alex]
- White as Milk: My Observations at Ikea & a Longing for Old Singapore
- the paradoX files: The Raw and the Cooked (2): Feeding Arts and Culture to the People

Infoblogamus
- BBC: London 2012: ‘Flu risk increase’ at Olympics – report [Thanks Adrian]
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Spectacular St. John’s Island

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

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Judiciary Conundrum

Daily Disclosure
- Ravi Philemon: Attitudinal change of blue-collar workers must start with Government
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minister Tharman should get his facts straight on Taiwan….
- Scrutinizing the Singapore government: Happy Good Friday
- Singapore Sojourn: Tutu Much [Thanks Roger]
- Sgpolitics.net: Do not deter people from alerting others about genuine criminal activity

Educate Our Youth
- Where Bears Roam Free: Yale’s self-righteousness is a joke
- Padaly Lighthouse_八达哩灯塔 : Yale Resolution and that Hougang By Election [Thanks Alan]
- Yahoo: Resolution on Yale-NUS College passes despite objection

Nun themed Party
- Loh and Behold: Escape from the Escape Chapel Party!
- Yahoo: ‘Why call the police over everything?’

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Err Temasek can do savvy deals too

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: Worrying Trends
- Singapore Notes: Time Out

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: WP: No longer believes in public tpt nationalisation

Defending OUR Lion City
- Senang Diri: Coming to terms with Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) training deaths
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: How to “rationalize” NS in Singapore

We are against capital punishment
- TOC: Calls to Stop the Execution of Yong Vui Kong

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Gavin Ng’s FB: Sometimes you just gotta dig a little more.

Uniquely Singapore
- The Long and Winding Road: The sun rises on a Sembawang tradition

Infoblogamus
- Bukit Brown Cemetry: Mass Graves in Bukit Brown : Where the Fallen Lie
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: “No Singaporean Left Behind” – Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum (KRMF) 2012
- Singapore Actually: Crazy Crowds at the New JCube Mall at Jurong East MRT (& My Directory Picks)

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

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Uniquely Singapore
- Remember Singapore: From Villages to Flats (Part 1) – The Kampong Days
- Wall Street Journal: Sneak Peek at Singapore’s Gardens By The Bay

Racism or Witchhunt
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Where got Everytime call POLICE?? An afterthought on Cherian George

Nun themed Night
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Defending and Denigrating Religious Symbols
- Prata Politics: Police Going Anal on Party
- Yahoo: CHIJMES ‘Chapel Party’ organisers apologise to Archbishop

Hougang By-Election
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Err do judges read TOC, TRE etc?
- TOC: AGC appeals against decision in by-election case

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: “I Am Talented”: An Undergraduate’s Triumph Against The Odds
- The Blue Sweater: An Equal Partnership?

Healthcare
- Singapore M.D.: Fail to understand logic, fail to understand healthcare reform

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: M Ravi and anti-Death Penalty Lobbyists toying with Yong Vui Kong’s life?

Daily Disclosure
- Andrew Loh: Government should stand up for Singaporeans
- Visakan Veerasamy: 4 worrying things about PM Lee’s worries
- Blogging for Myself: SBS bus hit and killed woman :-(
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: What the Sengkang bus 159 accident reveals

PAP Ministars Highest Paid Politicians in the World
- Martyn See Tong Ming: Pensions of our Ministers

Infoblogamus
- The Malaysian Insider: KL bans Singapore ballet for ‘indecent’ tutus and tights
- The Lawyer: Singapore’s Temasek appoints its first general counsel

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April 5th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Thank you, Mr Ravi Philemon
- TRE: New leadership at The Online Citizen

Hougang By-election
- Article 14: The Hougang By-election Case: A Tale of 2 Reports

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- THE TEMASEK TIMES: SHOCKING VIDEO: SBS bus driven by PRC driver ran over woman as she was crossing road in Sengkang

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Andrew Loh: Saying something good about MCYS
- Singapore Life and Times: That Brown Mount

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for The Unemployed: Rapid Growth in Singapore’s Immigrant Population Brings Policy Challenges

Defending OUR Lion City
- LIFT: Avinology and NS in Singapore: What did you learn?

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: In new intiative, S’pore government throws in money to build more co-working spaces
- Otterman: Why we need to talk about the birds and the bees

Daily Disclosure
- New Asia Republic: Wanted Sri Lanka MP believed to be in Singapore
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Coping with shifting morality in our society…
- Yahoo: CHIJMES ‘chapel party’ called off

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April 4th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Citizen To Minister Tan Chuan Jin: “Address manpower discrimination issues.”

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Singaporeans Say: Are Singaporeans myopic? [Thanks Lilian]

Educate Our Youth
- Jentrified Citizen: Teen support for Edusave Character Award

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: The legal plight of 60 immoral men….

We are against capital punishment
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Is Vui Kong a spoiled brat?

Kidnappers!
- Today: Kidnapping rumours: 5 assist in police probe
- Temasek Times: Police: Simei ‘abduction’ case is really due to ‘mistaken identity’ only

Daily Disclosure
- ABDILLAH ZAMZURI: Time to STOMP it out?
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Global Pay Scale Index & Singapore
- Where Bears Roam Free: How about a maximum of two terms for PM?
- TOC: Singapore Policy Approach: The search for a new sensible

Racism or Witchhunt?
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: No need to call the police every time

Hougang By-Election
- Feed Me To The Fish: Be A Man, Do The Right Thing
- Publichouse: Why Hougang by-election application is important

Infoblogamus
- TOC: Credit card debt seems to be ‘ever-growing’
- Yahoo: CHIJMES ‘chapel party’ comes under heavy fire

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

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Thank you, Mr Ravi Philemon
- TOC: TOC’s under new leadership

Kidnappers!
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Rumour Mongers, Pranksters and Crying Wolf
- ALVINOLOGY: The Recent Rise in Alleged Child Abduction and Mass Hysteria

Singapore Inc.
- Article 14: Electricity prices go up because of natural gas prices – really?
- Singapore Notes: No April Fool Joke
- Gintai: April Fool Joke: Electricity Tariffs Increase?

Hougang By-election
- Prata Politics: The Cleaner, the court…
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Hand of Justice must be seen to prevail wisely
- Political Writings: Politically Flawed
- Singapore Public Law: A Legal Backgrounder on By-elections

Sun Xu
- SG Hard Truth: On Sun Xu – by Ben Leong

Housing
- Singapore Life & Times: Burning money
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore homes continue to shrink …and so will our birth rate….

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: Singaporean complained to Chinese Embassy About PRC Chinese Behaviour

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- TRE: No Justice For Victims of Reckless Driving

This is Singapore. There is no free Press
- Singapore Rebel: Censors clear Chia Thye Poh video, rates it NC16

Infoblogamus
- I Wander: Conquering Singapore’s Tallest Peak [Thanks AC]
- Senang Diri: Decisive victors: A primer on the Third Generation Singapore Armed Forces (3G SAF)
- Aussie Pete: Key Learnings – SG Immigration No U-Turn Policy – Traverllers Take Note
- Everything Also Complain: Children getting maimed by escalators
- TWC2: Cloudy Case – TWC2 Draws the Line

April 2nd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

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Racism or Witch-hunt?
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Lai Shimun under the spotlight
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: Where were you non-Indian PAP MPs, and WP MPs?
- Publichouse: Racist postings – a sign of detachment?
- BBC: Fabrice Muamba: Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days

Daily Disclosure
- Musings From the Lion City: And They Were Wrong Because…?
- Fearfully Opinionated: Racism, Hate and Love
- sgentrepreneurs: Entrepreneur asked to pay S$3,888 for ‘award’, reports incident to police
- TOC: Median income growth: MOM says +1%, PSD says -0.6%?

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Blogging for Myself: Thumbs up to MOS Tan Chuan Jin

Educate Our Youth
- Diary of a Singaporean Mind: Importance of Expectations in Education and the Workplace….

Sun Xu
- Temasek Times: Nicole’s running mate Abdul Salim wants to use ‘insecticides’ to get rid of PRC ‘locusts’
- TRE: PAP must abolish the foreign scholarship policy

Infoblogamus
- Abdillah Zamzuri: Doa dapat, Neraka pun dapat [Thanks Fazli]
- Yours Truly Singapore: S’pore is 3rd-riches​t country: Forbes
- Wall Street Journal: Singapore Finds More Space for Grace, But Not on Subway

SQ 117 SIA Plane Hijack [Read the background story here.]
- Cabin crew, pilots, passengers and other Stories: SQ 117 True Hijack Story as related by a former steward who was working on that flight.

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

Racism or Witch-hunt?
- Article 14: Shimun Lai – What’s her crime?
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Dealing with Online Racism
- Anything and Whatever: Watch Your Words [Thanks Lilian]
- New Nation: Singapore aims to be racist hub by 2020
- TOC: Advantage of growing up a minority in Singapore is that you adapt

Sun Xu
- Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Q&A: The Sun Xu 孙旭 Saga
- The Blue Sweater: Mind Your Language III: Lessons for Everyone
- The Kent Ridge Common: Stand Strong Against Xenophobia in NUS – Of Sun Xu and the Foreign-Local Divide

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Jentrified Citizen: PRs and Foreigners spur us to do better? Really? [Thanks Ryan]
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: 5 Reasons Why Foreigners Don’t Respect Singaporeans

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- Prata Politics: Fine! and Free Rides!
- Food Fuels Me To Talk: Govt, Mr Lui & LTA just don’t get it
- flâneurose: 1.1 billion dollars more of buses will not help

Integrity · Service · Excellence
- Blogging for Myself: Education of a high flying civil servant.

Daily Disclosure
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: The Mysterious case of Taxis and Cat A COE
- Gintai: Passenger got burnt in train?
- Loh and Behold: Proliferation of Sex Crimes Disturbing; Here’s What to Do [Thanks Alan]
- Sgpolitics.net: Latest MAS initiative on financial regulation is good, but more should be done

A Vote for Change
- Feed Me To The Fish: Do The RIght Things & Do Them Right?

Infoblogamus
- Today: We can never be like New York, London – and that’s good [Thanks Adrian]
- TRE: POOR Cisco Changi Airport ground staff

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March 29th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

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Sun Xu
- Under the Willow Tree: Make Community Service Compulsory For All Foreign Scholars
- Singapore Short Stories: Sun Xu’s punishment
- DKSG: Sun Xu punished for derogatory remarks

Educate Our Youth
- Sgpolitics.net: Singaporeans citizens to get absolute priority for P1 places during balloting
- If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Singaporeans first in new P1 registration rule [Thanks Lilian]

Singapore Inc is happy, Singaporeans however…
- Gintai: No retirement in Singapore: We work till we die!

A Vote for Change
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: PAP in Aljunied GRC: No room for young blood?
- Musings From the Lion City: Strange Call

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Limpeh is Foreign Talent: Swiss FT vs Singaporeans [Thanks Alex!]
- Yahoo: Singapore a scholarship haven for foreign students?

Housing
- Housing Matters: A Bumper Launch To Support Strong Families With Babies
- Propertyguru: Slowdown seen in resale property market

Defending OUR Lion City
- ALVINOLOGY: What has NS done for you?

Healthcare
- TOC: Medifund: How many patients rejected?

Daily Disclosure
- My Singapore News: Shimun Lai’s facebook comment

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: S’pore anti-Death Penalty Lobbyists end all hopes for Yong Vui Kong
- Publichouse: Double-standards by S’pore, say M’sian campaigners

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March 28th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Sun Xu
- TRE: PRC Sun Xu’s scholarship revoked and terminated
- CNA FB: CNA posted netizen’s questions on Sun Xu to NUS
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: People Or Policies
- Singapore Notes: NUS Ain’t Got No Bite

Educate Our Youth
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: News: Singaporeans to get priority in P1 balloting
- Prata Politics: Got Primary One Registration Priority? Think Again!
- sgboleh: Singaporeans to get absolute priority over Permanent Residents when balloting for Primary School Seats
- The Gigamole Diaries: A practice-oriented, teaching medical school? Why not?
- The Kent Ridge Common: Do We Need Yale?

Daily Disclosure
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: Getting racial in local football

Defending OUR Lion City
- Tan Kin Lian: National service is the source of the problem

A Vote for Change
- Political Writings: George Yeo Should Be President

Hougang By-Election
- Yahoo: Registers of Electors to be updated, Hougang by-election looming?

Uniquely Singapore
- The Long and Winding Road: Delights around Marina Bay
- Loh and Behold: Best Chinese Restaurant in Singapore

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March 27th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Educate Our Youth
- Tan Kin Lian: Discrimination, equality and justice
- Where Bears Roam Free: New P1 registration rule – MOE’s quick-fix knee jerk approach
- Yahoo: Citizens to have ‘absolute priority’ over PRs for P1 registration: MOE
- Si Anak Watan Kota Singa: Apa Cerita lagi MOE? What telah happen?

Housing
- Political Writings: HDB Doesn’t Get It
- Yahoo: PropertyGuru report is based on incomplete data: HDB
- New Nation: PropertyGuru report 1 HDB report 0

Kidnappers!
- sgboleh: Singapore Children Almost Being Kidnapped

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Singapore Notes: The Curious Case of the Dopey DPP

Healthcare
- Singapore M.D: Health Freakonomics
- Words of The Cze: Trust Me
- Sgpolitics.net: Multi-pronged approach needed to make good healthcare affordable and available

Defending OUR Lion City
- Desparatebeep: Major Wrongs

A Vote for Change
- Article 14: George Yeo: Many had “lost faith in the government”
- Thoughts of a Cynical Investor: TJS, Hazel Poa and Tony Tan
- Publichouse: PAP & opposition working together – beyond the football field

Hougang By-election
- Sgpolitics.net: Hougang BE: Pragmatism and far-sightedness must rule the day
- TOC: Hougang is not WP’s own little fiefdom

Daily Disclosure
- Yours Toothfully by Dr Chan Joon Yee: The Real & The Fake
- LIFT: Limpeh Is Foreign Talent: Malay Emigration: Singapura tak bagus?
- A Yummy Slice of Life: Is there A “psychology” of the “upper-middle class” in Singapore?
- mrbrown.com: The Great DBS/POSB ATM card fiasco
- New Asia Republic: 外劳女佣会不会成为新加坡文化遗产的一部分？

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Temasek Times: Expat ticks off Singaporeans: You cannot say you are entitled to jobs in your country

“People can board the train, it is whether they choose to” – former SMRT CEO
- isaw-isphy: Staff loosens up at D&Ds

Uniquely Singapore
- POSKOD.SG: Retired Homes
- Diary of a Singapore Cabby: Fishball Soup in Toa Payoh
- I Wander: Singapore’s Chinatown: A Street By Street Look

Tech
- SGEntrepreneurs: PayPal Here to launch in Singapore later this year; competes head-on with Swiff

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March 26th, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

(Cartoon Credit: Eva Comics )

Educate Our Youth
- guanyinmiao’s musings: From Hwa Chong Graduate To Young Chef On Wheels: Going Beyond Conventional Academic Focuses

Peasant’s way or Government’s highway
- Unbranded Bread n Butter: The idiosyncrasies that arose from the Bukit Brown incident
- Publichouse: What would S’pore be like if our grandparents had won?

Housing
- PropertyGuru: HDBs more unaffordable than private homes
- New Nation: CPF Board should change its tagline, says labour economist

We are against capital punishment
- Where Bears Roam Free: Anti-Death Penalty lobbyists mentally boxed in their own ‘Yong Vui Kong world’
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Why the Death Penalty is Here to Stay For Some Time

Daily Disclosure
- Prata Politics: What the Hell is a Heritage Centre [Thanks Jonathan!]
- A Yummy Slice of Life: The Psychology of the Upper-Middle Class in Singapore
- Loh and Behold : Big Brother is Raping Us [Thanks Alan!]
- Yahoo: Racial and religious offence: why censorship doesn’t always cut it
- Support Site for the Unemployed & Underemployed: 7 Reasons Why We Must Implement Minimum Wage

The Gospel of Harry
- Everything Also Complain: NYC winning Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize
- Article 14: My favourite Parliamentary speech made by LKY

Singapore’s modern slave trade low skilled foreign labour
- TWC2: No Office, No Website, Yet $100,000 In Illegal Profit

Better Transport Fares for All
- TOC: Why fares should double and other ideas for a better transport system

Infoblogamus
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Thousands of dead fishes at Sungei Api Api?

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March 23rd, 2012 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment