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It’s Not That Complicated
It is heartening to note that not all our youngsters have been subjugated by the Ministry of Education (MOE) into mindless automatons to be fed like grist to the mill of the economic machinery. Student...
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The Movie Version Is Better
Tang Guoqiang is a Chinese actor best known for portraying historical figures in several films and television series. One of his more memorable roles include portraying Mao Zedong in "The Founding of a...
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Time Off For A Reality Check
A few minutes into the first of 12 radio broadcasts compiled for "The Battle For Merger" launch, the speaker is heard saying, "without merger Singapore will not survive". That was 53 years ago to the...
View ArticleGood Cop, Bad Cop
Malala Yousafzai (Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; Urdu: ملالہ یوسف زئی Malālah Yūsafzay, born 12 July 1997) is the youngest ever Nobel Prize recipient in any category.At the tender age of...
View ArticleThe Voice That Should Be Heard
What is it like to be detained for 32 years? Locked away without trial? Dr Chia Thye Poh was the longest-serving political prisoner of Singapore, longer than Nelson Madela's 27 years of incarceration...
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Ought To Be Shot
“synthetic (imported) is higher than the natural (home grown)”When World Champion Lewis Hamilton complained that the Singapore Grand Prix track was excessively bumpy, they moved heaven and earth make...
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Career Moves
Tongues are a wagging at the surprise move of top cop Police Commissioner Ng Joo Hee to a watered down appointment as head of National Water Agency PUB. Why make the announcement now when he will be...
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Rat Infestation
Chairman of Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) is opposition MP Sylvia Lim, who faces a potential fine of $1000 for organising the Lunar New Year Flora and Community Fair 2014 from Jan...
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The Air Still Stinks
The three hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading hit 113 at 3pm on Sunday. A better index of the deteriorating situation is the number of people suddenly developing dry coughs, no thanks to...
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Abusing Animal Rights
This is worse than the rat infestation problem, you may never look at your Snoopy collectibles with the same affection again. It's one thing to hide behind the special needs children for a political...
View ArticleSleeping With The Enemy
Everybody's doing it, sleeping with the enemy. The end justifies the means, doesn't matter if the bad guys are communists or colonial Brits, dogs or pigs. The extract from Melanie Chew's interview with...
View ArticlePricing Justice In Singapore
The following lines are from "America: Imagine the World Without Her", a 2014 American political documentary film by Dinesh D'Souza based on his book of the same name."I made a mistake and I'm not...
View ArticleMore Fun Than A Barrel Of Monkeys
Quoting Section 268, Chapter 224 of the Penal Code, Senior Investigation Officer the killjoy just took the fun out of next year's celebration of our country's 50th anniversary:A person is guilty of a...
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Fantastic Discounts
It sure looks like the Great Singapore Sales is on again, with offerings of fantastic discounts to make up for the dwindling number of tourists. Visitor arrivals in Singapore slipped 2.8 per cent year...
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Negative Returns
The board of steel mining company London Mining, which suspended trading on AIM (as in AIM the London Stock Exchange Company, not the $2 outfit associated with Teo Ho Pin), decided to put the company...
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His Story
A new exhibition chronicling 700 years of Singapore's history opened at the National Museum of Singapore on Tuesday. The historical period spans Ancient Singapore (1300 to 1818); Colonial Singapore...
View ArticleThe Animal Farm Bill
You know the circus is in town, when more and more politicians are getting into the animal act. Instead of going the extra mile to reduce the onerous cost of housing ("HDB to reduce supply of BTO flats...
View ArticleSpeak Softly And Carry Bricks
“Their remedy lies, if at all, in the legislative sphere,” judges Andrew Phang, Belinda Ang and Woo Bih Li said in a written verdict to dismiss a constitutional challenge against an archaic law...
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A Lose-Lose Situation
A real sweet heart dealJust like that, we lost out on $1.47 billion.The nasty quarrel over development charges on former Malayan Railway land parcels is traceable to Singapore and Malaysia maintaining...
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Gravity Defying Tariffs
First the good news. City Gas announced on Tuesday (Oct 28) that gas prices will be reduced from November 1 till the end of January next year. The gas tariff will be revised downwards, from 21.06 cents...
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