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Conjuring Up The Future
The minister sticking to the nonagenarian like a leech in the photo op gave a longer speech than Lee's two minutes at the microphone. After stating that the aim of the Government is to ensure every...
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Another Close Call
They say if you open the windows, expect flies to come in. Certainly not Ebola, unless you have a open door policy for all things foreign.There was a mild scare yesterday when a Nigerian woman in her...
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The Story of the Fishball Stick
Quite a few viewed the National Day Rally speech on Youtube, at 9.15 pm the visitor count was 6,093. Maybe they were hoping to capture a personal video of another "mee siam mai hum" moment for...
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Defending Unorthodox Ways Of Doing Business
While Brazil has denied links with property firm EcoHouse, a developer who claimed to be working with a Brazilian government social housing programme, it has not refuted reports that GIC Private...
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The Third Eye
When the taxi driver appeared to have difficulty with our destination, we suggested he use the GPS system in his cab, but he said the LCD display was not a navigation system. It was just a digitised...
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The Demand For Law
When a member of a certain profession tries to discourage you from going into the same field, chances are that he is protecting his turf for ulterior motives. The law of supply and demand is immutable,...
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Malaysian Police Boleh
After being on the run since his escape from a toilet window of the Internal Security Department's Whitley Road Detention Centre on 27 February 2008, Mas Selamat bin Kastari was finally apprehended in...
View ArticleNot My Job
This is plain disgraceful demeanor. Barely a week has passed since her great commission, and the minister is already shirking her responsibility and redefining her own job description.The Prime...
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Coming Of (electronic) Age
Finally, former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, "The Singapore Story" and "From Third World To First", are now available in electronic book format. In the author's note to the eBook edition, Lee...
View ArticleA Lament For Education
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are two glaring examples of how to be successful without benefit of a university degree. Forbes magazine published a list of college-dropout billionaires on March 11, 2009 and...
View ArticleTheir Gods Must Be Crazy
News like this is enough to turn any one into an atheist. First we have this wife of a mega church pastor cavorting semi-clad in a music video to win more converts, and giving geishas in general a...
View ArticleBarking Dogs Don't Bite
When we adopted a rabbit from the SPCA, we were told to pay for the spaying and neutering fee, on the understanding that a neutered male rabbit will live longer. Also, altered rabbits are supposed to...
View Article11,800 More Votes
It was obvious the hike for the non-graduate civil servants was not meant to address the shameful Gini coefficient. The management executive officers - specifically those who work on policies and...
View ArticleAn Eerie Quiet
The letter writer asked for a waiver of the 3 year waiting period for a HDB flat after downgrading from private property ownership. Instead of being free to hop about happily in the garden, his rabbit...
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Batteries Not Included
The Pioneer Generation Package (PGP) was introduced in February with much fanfare at Budget 2014. Since then, we have been inundated with the spare-no-expense publicity tsunami, the most obnoxious...
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The Sell Out Option
Somebody must have peed in their pants. The national library put the books back on the shelves, the housing board apologized before animal rights groups could bite, and now the Ministry of National...
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Recognize The Evil
On Saturday 30 Aug, three young men in Beirut protested by torching the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flag, a black banner emblazoned with the Muslim tenet "there is no god but God...
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Time Out For Religion
According to an article in TIME magazine (August 18, 2014), there are 6% of Americans who identify with atheism (lack of belief in God) or agnosticism (knowledge of God is unknowable). The curiosity...
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Weapons of Asset Destruction
Howe Yoon Chong (Chinese: 侯永昌;pinyin: Hóu Yǒngchāng) had a very brief sojourn as a minister in the cabinet (1979 to 1984) after an illustrious career history as CEO of the Housing and Development Board...
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Not Exactly A Role Model
The author of the virulent diatribe against Singaporeans has degrees from Oxford University (Hertford College) in the United Kingdom, a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and a...
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