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Miss Singapore World first runner-up Miss Claire Lee, who was unfairly accused by dethroned winner Miss Ris Low of leaking to the press news about her probation has gamely put the unhappy episode behind her and flown off to Bangkok today to do charity work. Miss Lee had a torrid time during...

It has been 50 years since Singapore has been governed by the PAP under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew. Is Singapore better off now than it was 50 years ago? The answer from most baby boomers is that it is worse. Despite all the gains in materialism and wealth in the country, the majority...

Three PAP MPs have spontaneously jumped to the defence of Singapore PR Zhang Yuanyuan, who stirred a storm in cyberspace by proclaiming her allegiance to China publicly on Chinese TV channel CCTV! When interviewed by the state media, the PAP MPs urged netizens not to “extreme” in their...

An article on the digital edition of the Sunday Times titled “Singapore PR took part in parade” has mysteriously disappeared! The article which relates a Singapore PR by the name of Zhang Yuanyuan, who chose to return to Beijing and took part in China’s 60th National Day parade was still...

Following the widespread furore sparked by a letter published in the Straits Times Forum on 30 September 2009 from an unemployed man who recounted his bitter experience of being brought to court for S&C arrears by his unsympathetic Town Council, the state media has quickly moved in to limit the...

Jalan Besar Town Council had took an unemployed man to court for arrears S&C arrears of $432! In a letter written to the Straits Times Forum, Mr Lim Beo Thiam, a 52 year old who has been unemployed for 18 months and lost part of a leg through diabetes relates his unhappy experience with his...

In an article published on 29 September 2009 in the Straits Times with the misleading title – “GIC claws back loss”, Alvin Foo claimed that the sale of some shares before market crash had mitigated the fall of GIC’s portfolio. (read article here) It quoted GIC Deputy Chairman Tony Tan saying...

According to Eugene Lim, Associate Director of ERA Asia-Pacific, the prices of resale HDB flats have shot up b 38 per cent over the last three and a half years. What’s more shocking is that 40 per cent of the buyers are permanent residents from data gathered from recent ERA’s resale...

Background: Over 300 guests turned up at Fortunate Restaurant on 25 September 2009 to celebrate the first anniversary of the founding of the Reform Party whose Secretary-General is Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, the elder son of opposition icon Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam View the photos here...

The legitimacy of the Singaporean government is predicated on the idea of a meritocratic technocracy. A tiny number of career civil servants play a leading role in setting policy within their ministries and other government-linked bureaucracies, leading both an elite corps of senior bureaucrats...

I refer to the HDB’s letter “Within a family’s reach” to the Straits Times dated 12 Sept 2009. The HDB claims that one of its key responsibilities is to sustain flat values over the long term. The first of HDB’s four mission statements is to “provide affordable homes of quality and value”...

The new CPF Life (aka the National LIFElong Income Scheme) is an overhaul to the entire CPF system and a change in the wamy CPF is providing for all its members. It will mark a massive shift of principles and ideology which Singaporeans had gotten used to after its inception in 1955. Before...

The National Integration Council announced at a press conference yesterday a series of recommendations to promote greater integration between immigrants and Singaporeans, one of which is an eye-popping $10 million Community Integration Fund to help the two groups mingle and interact with one...

Below is a scanned copy of a flyer emailed to us by a reader: Dear admin, I live in a HDB flat & I received this piece of note slipped under the door recently. I couldn’t paste it on your webpage so I decided to email it to you instead as you may be interested in it. I’ve erased the...

The Singapore model of government which was characterized by a high degree of efficiency with minimal fuss was often referred to by admirers and detractors alike as “Singapore inc”. The entire government is run along the lines of a major corporate company with the Prime Minister as the CEO...

Singapore has moved two spots to number three in the recently published World Economic Forum (WEF) report on world competitiveness. Without any additional information and details, yes, Singapore deserves a round of applause. After all, it does mean that the Singapore economy is “able to produce...

During his interview with The New Paper, Singanews founder Mr Matthew Yap said that his venture had got $90,000 in seed funding so far. Singnews was supposed to be a “secular” news portal to promote “mainstream family values” as defined as “natural families focused on procreation”. It is...

It has been 2 weeks already and the Straits Times is still following up keenly on the PKMS fracas which saw two factions of the beleaguered opposition party broke out openly in a street-fight. PKMS, which was little known previously to Singaporeans, suddenly found itself at the center of...

Singpore’s latest news portal – Singanews will be launched in October this year. It is owned by Singa Communications set up by ex Straits Times journalist Matthew Yap. The company has about $90,000 in seed funding. It was supposed to be a “secular” news portal to “offer alternative viewpoints...

In a reply to queries from Singaporeans on affordability of public housing, HDB Deputy CEO Yap Chin Beng wrote a letter to the Straits Times Forum with the usual reassurance that the flats are “within a family’s reach”. (read letter here) Echoing similiar statements issued previously by...