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Prodigal Son Comes Home
Will wonders never cease! Former chairman of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and People's Action Party (PAP) Member of Parliament for Boon Teck (1972 - 1979) Phey Yew Kok popped up in court...
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Famous Last Words
Stalin was not the only one with a predilection for sending folks to the headshrinkers. It's just their horrible style of putting people down. And covering up their own foibles.(With apologises to...
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Shielding The Truth
The horrible person thought that by banning the private use of satellite dishes, he could maintain a sanitized version of world events. Thanks to the internet, we know there more important news than...
View ArticleNot So Easily Forgotten
Today, 30 June 2015, marks the 100th day since the horrible person finally left this world for a better place where there is no COE, ERP, GST and Medishield Life premiums. For the record, champagne...
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Fair Dinkum, My Foot!
While Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong were photographed flipping steaks at one of the '50 BBQs' hosted by Singapore's Australian High Commission, netizens were...
View ArticleSleep Deprivation Kills
It was close to midnight when we decided to hit the sack as a full day schedule was ahead. But the chairman with us at the Shanghai Sheraton bar said he will stay on a bit longer, as sleep at his age...
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Priceless Quotes
It's always fun when the prime minister has to face foreign journalists like CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria. Instead of the scripted and redacted "dialogue" with local media,...
View ArticleLessons About Humility
Snipped off from the report on Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam's comments at the Friday (Jul 3) SG50+ conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies was this significant bit:"You...
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Going Up In Smoke
During the Hungry Ghost Month (鬼月) and Qingming Festival (the annual ritual of tomb sweeping), the burning of paper construction offerings is a symbolic act of respect and filial piety to one’s...
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Bad Publicity
The Singapore connection highlighted in redSingapore is being flagged in international headlines for all the wrong reasons. The money trail for US$700 million that went missing traces a treacherous...
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Paid To Fail
You talking to me? You talking to ME?The world saw how the Samsung heir apparent bowed humbly to apologise for an associated hospital’s failures in dealing with the country’s outbreak of Middle East...
View ArticleMusical Chairs, The Sequel
Tharman acted coy when CNN host Fareed Zakaria probed him if Singapore was ready for an Indian prime minister. Although Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Tharman professed that he's not keen on the job...
View ArticleAll Under Heaven
In the climatic scene of the 2002 wuxia movie ("Hero") by Zhang Yimou, the nameless protagonist (Jet Li) aborted his assassination attempt on the King of Qin at the very last moment. As the story...
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New Look, Same Crap
Their own annual reports confirmed the decline — from 390,363 printed copies of Straits Times (ST) circulated daily at the turn of the millennium to 365,800 in 2010. In 2012, circulation for printed...
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Nothing Happens By Chance
Tharman told the CNN host that the anomaly of 80 out of 87 seats going to one political party was an outcome, not by design. The guy who equates a safety net with a trampoline - an exercise equipment...
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Have You Had To Speak To A Cardboard MP?
Sorry, auntie, this cannot use for medishield life premium"Before I joined the grassroots organisation, I never knew there were poor people in developed countries."— MP Michael Palmer (2006)That one...
View Article(More) Lapses In Governance
The Auditor-General’s Office (AGO) stumbled across a red herring. The chairman of Admiralty Citizen's Consultative Committee was caught with his grubby little hands in the cookie jar: - the chairman...
View ArticleRat Infestation Galore
The Auditor-General's Office (AGO) 2014/2015 Report is definitely not good bed-time reading material. Instead of lulling you to sleep, there are so many eyepoppers that will make you sit up the whole...
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Too Clever By Half
The easiest way out is to claim that he was misquoted by some rookie reporter. Then again, even when a journalist quoted directly from the official handout, she can end up with a sh*t load of trouble...
View ArticleIndependence Day Blues
The question from Melanie Chew was: "Can you explain to me why independence for Singapore was declared in the 31st August 1963, before the formation of Malaysia on September 16th, 1963."Dr Toh Chin...
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