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Background: Potong Pasir MP Mr Chiam See Tong was given a rousing welcome by a Chinese, Malay and Indian dance troupe. The guests reached out to him to shake his hands as he walked to take his seat at the table. There is a distinctive feeling of “Singaporean” in the atmosphere with the diners...

Background: More than 1,000 guests turned up at Potong Pasir on 12 December 2009 for dinner to celebrate Mr Chiam’s illustrious 25 years of service for Potong Pasir residents, including leaders of the various opposition parties in Singapore such as WP’s Mr Low Thia Kiang, SDP’s Dr Chee Soon...

YPAP member and P65 blogger Fredric Fanthome who made a spirited defence of the “cooling-off” day proposed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on the p65 blog turned out to be a new citizen from India! Fredric graduated from the Indian Institute of Management in 2000 and is currently the head...

Health Minister Mr Khaw Boon Wan had apologized to the two victims of the KKH medication blunder on his blog in an entry dated 22 November 2009: “The chemo overdose errors in KKH were human errors. They should not have happened, but they did. We are sorry for the mistakes and are all saddened...

Mr Ng Chun Kiat, son of KKH medication error victim Madam Ng L.K lambasted the two pharmacists responsible for the mistake as being “idiots” on his blog, started a few days ago to create “public awareness” for the incident! Mr Ng took issue with the fact that the two pharmacists had yet to...

Launch of the book – “The Fajar Generation: The University Socialist Club and the Politics of Postwar Malaya and Singapore” at the Alumni Medical Centre on the 14 November 2009, Saturday from 3pm to 6pm. The book contains essays written by Dr. Lim Hock Siew, Dr. Poh Soo Kai, Mr. Tan Kok Fang...

Background: On 6 November 2009, two cancer patients receiving chemotherapy at Singapore’s Kandang Kerbau Hospital (KKH) was given an overdose of the drugs. One of them is Madam Ng L. K who received doxorubicin over a few hours instead of days. Madam Ng’s son, Mr Ng Chun Kiat, had started a...

By Amanda Lian After the official book launch of “The Fajar Generation”, Temasek Review managed to snatch some personal time with Dr. Lim Hock Siew (LHS) and Dr. Poh Soo Kai (PSK). During this time, we managed to get some books autographed by them while at the same point, ask them a few...

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The Temasek Review site was down for almost 8 hours on 30 October 2009 from a massive DDOS or distributed denial of service attack. (read the details here) A DDOS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. One common method of attack involves...

In a letter published in the Straits Times Forum on 27 October 2009, Press Secretary to the Ministry of National Development Lim Yuin Chien wrote that there is a difference between the roles of a MP and an adviser. This was what he wrote: “In Singapore, MPs also have an important role in...

During the Kent Ridge Ministerial dialogue held at NUS two days ago, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew stressed that that problem of a widening income gap is one that most countries – not just Singapore – have to contend with and it is “inevitable” in a globalized world. MM Lee’s claims about the...

Background: Mr Yoong Siew Wah was the Director of Singapore's Internal Security Department (ISD) from 1971 to 1974. Before his stint with ISD, he was the director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). The SPH propagandist book about the PAP "Men in White" alleged in page 441...

Dear readers, Our server suffered a huge DDoS attack today from 6am to 11am, causing our site to go offline during that period. Although our server comes with basic Anti DDoS protection, the attack our server suffered was in excess of 50mbps, causing our Apache Web Server to crash due to...

The National Development Minister Mr Mah Bow Tan has replied through his press secretary Mr Lim Yuien Chien to Mr Low Thia Kiang’s letter in the Straits Times Forum, claiming that he was “wrong” about the Life Upgrading Programme (LUP). (read letter here) Mr Low had earlier written a letter...

The recent award of Nobel prize to a Hong Kong physics professor has invited some kiasu Singaporeans (who always have displayed an idiosyncratic attitude in not wanting to lose out to Hong Kong) to sit back and ask why has not Singapore created any Nobel Laureates so far. Lack of No.1...

By Khalil Adis [Khalil Adis a former editor of Property Report. He now writes for Property Report, Property Guru and Temasek Review] The rising number of cash rich immigrants to Singapore is pricing out first time Singaporean homeowners from the HDB resale market. Meanwhile, the HDB has...

A probable China National by the name of He Zhiyu had written to the Straits Times Forum castigating Singapore netizens for being “naive” and “insecure”! (read letter here) Zhang Yuanyuan, a Singapore PR drew flak from the online community recently by proclaiming her undivided loyalty to...

Singapore PR Zhang Yuanyuan, who was lambasted by Singapore netizens for “renouncing” her PR on China’s National TV, remained unfazed by the buzz about her. Ms Zhang had earlier returned to China to participate in its 60th National Day Parade in Beijing. In the CCTV Channel 7 news clip...

After keeping a dignified silence for a week, Hougang’s Member of Parliament Mr Low Thia Kiang has finally struck back at the PAP and HDB for unceremoniously sidelining him in the announcement of the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP). (read Mr Low’s letter here) PAP’s grassroots adviser and...