jentrifiedcitizenBlog- Elections in Singapore: PAP's Strategy Uncovered May 14, 2013
- Indranee's curious claims May 13, 2013
- In Singapore We’ve Forgotten: I Think That I Am Better Than You (Part 2) May 11, 2013
- PM Lee and Lim Swee Say: Revealing the Truth With Real Statistics May 5, 2013
- Oppression and threats will not destroy our spirit April 28, 2013
- Double Standards In Singapore: Only The Government Can Win April 26, 2013
- Who says our kids can’t learn dialects and multi-languages at the same time? April 22, 2013
- Mahbubani on "What is governance?" April 15, 2013
- Xenophobia? Clean up your own act before making accusations April 11, 2013
- Singaporeans Happiest in Asia? How about Richest and Most Well-fed too? March 22, 2013
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Recent Posts
- Elections in Singapore: PAP's Strategy Uncovered May 14, 2013
- Indranee's curious claims May 13, 2013
- In Singapore We’ve Forgotten: I Think That I Am Better Than You (Part 2) May 11, 2013
- PM Lee and Lim Swee Say: Revealing the Truth With Real Statistics May 5, 2013
- Oppression and threats will not destroy our spirit April 28, 2013
- Double Standards In Singapore: Only The Government Can Win April 26, 2013
- Who says our kids can’t learn dialects and multi-languages at the same time? April 22, 2013
- Mahbubani on "What is governance?" April 15, 2013
- Xenophobia? Clean up your own act before making accusations April 11, 2013
- Singaporeans Happiest in Asia? How about Richest and Most Well-fed too? March 22, 2013
- Most Firms Surveyed Will Not Pass on Wage Subsidy March 14, 2013
- WP's Blue Paper will cause great hardship to us all March 14, 2013
- Err why must S'poreans prove anything, Managing Editor of SPH? March 14, 2013
- NTUC – Social Enterprise or Profit-driven Business? March 6, 2013
- Government Pays Employers to Pay Employees More February 26, 2013
- WP’s Population Paper is Singaporean-centric February 23, 2013
- Shame on our Mainstream Media for failing its readers and Singaporeans February 17, 2013
- Five thousand gather to protest population White Paper February 17, 2013
- Tale of Two Chairs February 14, 2013
- Bring back Tipping to draw Singaporeans to work in F&B sector February 12, 2013
- Stop Trying to Frame the White Paper, We Can See the Truth February 12, 2013
- A Singaporean Core?: What Defines a Singaporean (II) February 11, 2013
- NSP Calls for National Referendum on White Paper February 9, 2013
- Economists challenge assumptions of fhe flawed White Paper February 8, 2013
- Black Friday – White Paper got passed against the people’s wishes February 8, 2013
- Is the White Paper simply kicking the can down the road? February 7, 2013
- Lift the Whip February 7, 2013
- A dynamic population for a sustainable Singapore: Sustaining the Singapore core February 6, 2013
- Stand Up and Be Counted Singaporeans February 6, 2013
- Welfare of children as political football February 5, 2013
- Implications of the White Paper’s Target of 6.9 Million Population February 5, 2013
- Tan Cheng Bock weighs in on the White Paper February 3, 2013
- Rape of our nation – Whither Singaporeans? February 2, 2013
- Confessions of a Prime Minister February 2, 2013
- Singapore must achieve more with less - By NGIAM TONG DOW January 29, 2013
- Broken Trust, Broken Policies January 29, 2013
- Whither Singapore? January 28, 2013
- Punggol East By-Election 2013: The Aftermath and the Analysis January 28, 2013
- Singapore is Bigger than PAP January 27, 2013
- Why Singaporeans are jubilant over WP’s win in Punggol East January 26, 2013
- Cooling-off Day and the Issue of Integrity January 25, 2013
- Punggol East By-election – Vote for a better Singapore January 24, 2013
- SDP's political naivete January 12, 2013
- Five men, like flotsam January 9, 2013
- Punggol East By-election well-timed to defuse AIM timebomb? January 9, 2013
- Check and counter check. More drama to come on AIM saga January 8, 2013
- PAP mis-AIMed, faces blowback, part 6 January 7, 2013
- Even ex-PAP MP Tan Cheng Bock is troubled by the AIM saga January 6, 2013
- Is PM Lee Aiming to use a bazooka to kill an ant and scare off the rest? January 4, 2013
- Singaporeans, This Is It! This Is How Our Government Takes Our Money January 4, 2013
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Category Archives: Musing Out Loud
Mahbubani on "What is governance?"
Reblogged from The GOVERNANCE blog: Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, responds to Francis Fukuyama’s “What is governance?”: Francis Fukuyama has done the West an enormous favor with his essay … Continue reading
Most Firms Surveyed Will Not Pass on Wage Subsidy
The Straits Times reported on Wednesday that 75% of the “around 50″ companies surveyed by the Singapore Business Federation will not be giving wage increments to their staff despite the Wage Credit Scheme (WCS). This report raised several questions when … Continue reading
Tale of Two Chairs
Today’s lead story in the Home News section of The Straits Times was about two chairs. Yep, you read right – Chair 1 and Chair 2 found on a LRT track. To track down this fascinating super newsy story, ST … Continue reading
Tsk Tsk…another mischievous headline
Spotted another mischievous headline in the Straits Times today. It states “Aljunied-Hougang Not Raising S&C Charges Yet” . Why is it mischievous? Well, this report was based on an interview that their reporter did with the Workers Party which said … Continue reading
How many times do we have to say Bugger Off to CoC?
I am taking the unusual step of repeating a post I had written in response to our government’s dogged push for an Internet Code of Conduct. Don’t like doing this but I felt this was necessary since Information, Communications and the … Continue reading
Inflation going up, Up, Up
The latest Singapore Consumer Price Index is out and it shows inflation is higher at 5.3% in June compared to 5% in May. And the Government says it now expects inflation to be higher than expected for the year “after … Continue reading
No Internet Code But Start “Brainwashing” From Young?
So it looks like there will be no “clampdown” on the internet and no Internet Code of Conduct (yet?) in Singapore accordng to comments made by the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Yaacob Ibrahim in a news report … Continue reading
You gotta search real hard these days for The Truth!
Everyday we read sonething that makes us wonder how far will some governments go to block the truth from their citizens and the world. Today I read some thing that took this to a new low. In China, it seems … Continue reading
Singaporeans’ rising social activism reported in New York Times
I was pleasantly surprised to read in the New York Times a report on Singaporeans’ rising social activism with the headline “As Singapore loosens its grip, Residents lose fear to challenge authority”. It cited the recent public event held at … Continue reading
What is Real Courage?
“Courage” seems to be a key word in the PAP’s by-election campaign with candidate Desmond Choo and Minister for Education Heng Swee Keat mentioning this a few times when urging the Hougang residents to vote for PAP. In his final … Continue reading
