http://limpehft.blogspot.sg/2014/12/you-wanna-praise-pap-get-your-facts.html
5) "Our government has transformed Singapore from 3rd-world kampung island to 1st-world global recognized state in a matter of 40 odd years."
This is completely wrong. Singapore was poorer in 1965 at the point of independence, but it was a thriving city with a population of 1.89 million - the British had left the country with surprisingly good infrastructure and industry, there were plenty of schools churning out a well-educated work force and Singapore at that stage was anything but a 3rd-world kampung island. By 1965, Singapore was already a thriving city of international importance - if Singapore was such an insignificant 3rd world kampung, would the Japanese and British have fought so hard over it during WW2? I am simply aghast at the sheer ignorance of some bloody stupid Singaporeans who are under the impression that Singapore was like this little kampung with no more than a few huts and coconut trees in 1965. Please read my two pieces here on the history of Singapore as some of you guys seriously need to go back to school to retake some of these history lessons. Jackie Loh seriously needs to go back to school for some history and English lessons (his English sucks).
5) "Our government has transformed Singapore from 3rd-world kampung island to 1st-world global recognized state in a matter of 40 odd years."
This is completely wrong. Singapore was poorer in 1965 at the point of independence, but it was a thriving city with a population of 1.89 million - the British had left the country with surprisingly good infrastructure and industry, there were plenty of schools churning out a well-educated work force and Singapore at that stage was anything but a 3rd-world kampung island. By 1965, Singapore was already a thriving city of international importance - if Singapore was such an insignificant 3rd world kampung, would the Japanese and British have fought so hard over it during WW2? I am simply aghast at the sheer ignorance of some bloody stupid Singaporeans who are under the impression that Singapore was like this little kampung with no more than a few huts and coconut trees in 1965. Please read my two pieces here on the history of Singapore as some of you guys seriously need to go back to school to retake some of these history lessons. Jackie Loh seriously needs to go back to school for some history and English lessons (his English sucks).
