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NTU President finally makes the clean break with Nantah by declaring it a young university - http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_805790.html I guess that it what happens when we allow our story to be told by others. See you at Hong Lim tomorrow afternoon!

This is from a thesis done locally http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2011/06/nus-article-confirms-lee-kun-yew-is.html

Now that SMU and NUS Law schools have decided to honour a private citizen who made a ton of money for herself and her family, perhaps it is a good time to revive the proposal for a law professorship in human rights law in honour of Singapore's democracy hero- Mr JB Jeyaretnam.

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Nationalist Fear Mongering Demographic Nonsense By DEAN BAKER The debate over the demographic trends in the United States and other wealthy countries can be described a debate between those who care about our children and those who want more of them. This is apparent once a little bit of...

Check out: http://events.insing.com/event/melvyn-tan-concert/id-f5430000 or http://www.culturelink.com.sg/page.asp?main_id1=21&value1=33&_Melvyn_Tan_Live

It looks like the Woodlands killer had serially attacked women for months before he was caught after killing at least one individual. In a society with an open media and an active citizenry, the first couple of attacks would have raised the alert and galvanized the local population to take...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/education/01math.html?src=me&ref=general Making Math Lessons as Easy as 1, Pause, 2, Pause ... Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times Students learning Singapore math, like these fourth graders at Quaker Ridge School in Scarsdale, N.Y., use many...

Wasn't this promised to us some time ago??? Now as the PM has pointed out the economy is doing so well and he wants to help all Singaporeans, why not restore the long overdue CPF cuts???

Or else, its just business as usual..... Parliament No: 11 Session No: 1 Volume No: 82 Sitting No: 16 Sitting Date: 2007-03-05 Section Name: BUDGET Column No : 2635 Column No : 2635 ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1ST APRIL, 2007TO 31ST MARCH, 2008...

Interesting how the racial balance on all the NDP posters suddenly disappears when the YOG flag is being carried in.... I guess it is because Malays in Singapore do not play football anymore or perhaps Indians don't run... or ??? Home > News > 8 S'poreans from diverse backgrounds chosen...

Just look at the spectacular show! Impresses the foreign dignitary.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHM5qTpKQUo

With the world's highest GDP growth rates, do you think that it might be possible that us ordinary working Singaporeans will get the NWC to recommend a 15% pay rise for us? Or am I only dreaming????

Came across this.... Quite interesting reading although it does demonstrate the limited role that the US played..... http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB52/doc577.pdf

I have been to a number of newstands but have been unable to find the Jan 2010 issue of National geographic. My dad subscribes but he received the issue a little late. I read it and found a couple of rather apalling articles including one on a wildlife trader in Penang but also the infamous...

Sunday Times Nov 29, 2009 Morals and morale Chinese class taught me values that I still live by today; English spelling gave me grief By Lee Wei Ling Recently, my father acknowledged that he made a mistake in deciding how Chinese should be taught in our schools. I remember many...

They visited the concentration camps too ...... http://sundaytimes.lk/091004/News/nws_08.html Only six so far for Rs. 80m summit Only six Foreign Ministers have so far confirmed their participation in a two-day Asian summit in Sri Lanka, the first international event since Tiger guerrillas...

We did not do too badly! Between UK and US and ahead of China See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/12/0012255&art_pos=4

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050459.html The neighborhood bully strikes again By Gideon Levy Israel embarked yesterday on yet another unnecessary, ill-fated war. On July 16, 2006, four days after the start of the Second Lebanon War, I wrote: "Every neighborhood has one, a...

My patients, my teachers Many important lessons on life come not from textbooks but from real people By Lee Wei Ling In 1983, I was training as a neurology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, the premier Harvard-affiliated hospital that some termed 'Man's...