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Votes Don't Count
Trust Lim Swee Say to announce that he will be contesting in the East Coast GRC at the next general election, supposedly to implement plans he has for the ageing constituency. Only in Singapore, can an...
View ArticleTriple Packages
Yale Law professor Amy Chua, aka “Tiger Mom,” and her husband, fellow Yale professor Jed Rubenfeld, have come up with “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of...
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Just Horsing Around
"PM promises pioneer generation a hongbao", screamed the headlines. What is not stated is who actually pockets the cash.A neighbour's daughter wrote back from Amsterdam where she is on an exchange...
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Makes You See Red
According to Hong Kong feng shui master Alion Yeo, the Year of the Horse starting today is going to be the kind of horse that you shouldn't stand behind - because it incorporates the volatile element...
View ArticleWho's Watching Who?
An injured elderly man was found unconscious close to the elevated train tracks between the Tanah Merah and Expo MRT stations on Saturday afternoon.SMRT was quick to declare that the man was not hit by...
View ArticleIt Is The System Now
Credit should always be given where credit is due. And Mr Lye deserves to be thanked for highlighting the fact that disputes over hawker centre cleaning and trade fairs are attributable to...
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Paying For The Rest Of Our Lives
The Collins English Dictionary definition of "manipulative" can be easily applied to Health Minister Gan Kim Yong, as in "calculating and manipulative".Since April 1984, the national medical savings...
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Truth In Feng Shui
Straight from the horse's mouthThe horse in the Chinese zodiac is part of a 12-year-cycle of animals that interact with the 5 elements: wood, metal, fire, water, earth. 2014 is the year of the wood...
View ArticleEndangering Our Nation
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and Foreign Minister Shanmugam are all simultaneously saying that naming an Indonesian warship after two marines who parachuted into...
View Article28 Year Old Pioneers
The Pioneer Generation Package is planned for Singaporeans aged 65 years and older at the end of this year, and those who received their citizenship by December 31, 1986. Say again? To qualify for the...
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An Exercise In Brinkmanship
Jupiter Aerobatic Team - ambassador in the skyIt was a cinch for Lim Swee Say to uninvite Tan Cheng Bock, since both of them have roots from the same political camp. Tan may have ruffled a few feathers...
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Gross Domestic Problems
To author Lorenzo Fioramonti, GDP stands for Gross Domestic Problem, not the Gross Domestic Product as we know it.His small book, only 200 pages long, traces the history of GDP, discusses how its...
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Of Heroes And Terrorists
Husband-wife relationships turn sour for various reasons. We are not talking about Murdoch fuming over his wife's email exchanges with Tony Blair. Or how a stoic Hillary dealt with her husband's...
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The Wit & Wisdom Of Lee Kuan Yew
If you are shopping for a book of quotes as a Valentine's Day gift, you have to be blinded by Cupid's arrows to mistake this for Francis Seow's "Confucius Confounded: The Analects of Lee Kuan Yew"....
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In Praise Of Foreigners
Senior expatriate managers are considered by Transnational Corporations (TNCs) to possess high levels of technical and business expertise and are rewarded accordingly. They form the upper echelons of...
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Time Out For A Reality Check
In 1995 Fidel Ramos - he called Contemplacion a heroine - was so frustrated when Goh Chok Tong failed to grasp the uproar in the Philippines caused by the execution of Flor Contemplacion, he bundled a...
View ArticleThe Force Is With Them
"Under the enhanced powers, police officers would be allowed, for instance, to strip search a person for alcohol. Police officers holding the rank of sergeant and above would be empowered to raid any...
View ArticleLeave God Out Of This
Recently Lawrence Khong wrote this on his Facebook posting:"The Lord is our Lawgiver, The Lord is our King; He will save us (Isaiah 33:22 NKJV). This means our faith should not be confined within the...
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Follow The Money
The nomenclature used in the Singapore Standard on Auditing SSA 700 “The Independent Auditor’s Report on a Complete Set of General Purpose Financial Statements” and SSA 701 “Modifications to the...
View ArticleThe $8b Con Job
The local paper (now ranked 150th by Reporters Without Borders) made like the FY2014 budget is in deficit to the tune of $1.16b because of the $8b boondoggle for the Pioneer Generation Package (PGP)....
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