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Share already right? What did I miss? That he got dismissed from NUS officially for mis-using small claims, and "not" because he was involved in opposition politics? Dr Vasoo is still at NUS - just saw him talking to a prof in the canteen about the Vijeysingha affair. That Dr Chee is an...

I agree that they'll be difficult to integrate - in terms of language, culture, etc. Not accepting them as citizens isn't the same as not providing them with relief for a short period of time. In the worst case, getting them healed and provisioned over a couple of months and in the worst case...

Okay I'm not Dr Chee himself so I'm not speaking for him. These are just my views as a Singaporean who does not closely follow CSJ's activities - just the usual snippets on the internet and news over the years. 1. Gandhi was jailed a lot. Many other dudes got jailed a lot but probably weren't...

Re: ECB and IMF - so you think they knowingly went with austerity, with full knowledge that their actions would harm society but enrich themselves? Or were they blindly obeying neo-liberal ideology and orthodoxy (like some person on this forum)? In any case - I don't know if the European people...

This thread is full of LOL. You guys are the best.

Really not??? Sounds like Onion or New Nation news leh... Where got people ban such famous work one...

I think my estate old lah, that's why. I have old hawkers selling tau huay zui for 30c small cup 50c big cup. Yes it's a legacy of an old system and no longer common, but you could think of it as a kind of subsidy (if HDB decides to let it out at "market rates" the rentals will definitely go...

Yeah, last time got teach some English. But no more - I not comfortable with MOE style of education. I can't speak for other fields, but not in my field. Top publications are still often by whites, or if by Asians (most frequently Japanese, then (anglo-)Indian, then Korean, then Chinese) who...

I also waiting. Nahbeh I see Obama get Nobel Peace Prize... then I see our Pee Em, wahlau pay so high but cannot get award. Damn lose face. Hopefully some kid will make us proud in future.

Because English reading takes a lot of rote memory, and Singaporeans good at rote memory. English spelling system is really quite hard to learn (not many language are harder - Chinese and Japanese come to mind to read). Consider: cough rough though bough through thought the same...

My lunch partner today was just saying to me "Let's go eat at the hawker centre and enjoy government subsidised food." He was referring to low rentals at hawker centres leading to lower-priced food. Of course hawker centre rents are not the only rents our gahmen collects. I'm not an...

Thanks mojito for the information and education. :-) Much appreciated. Well, kindof, but we don't seem to do much to enable the poor to lead very decent lives. From my time in teaching, the children/teenagers not coping well with school still tend to be the ones from the very poor homes. It...

That's a minor technical difference right (whether it's a tax or not)? Even public funds belong to all citizens, so it might just as well be a tax that is spent on public goods like housing, healthcare, education, etc. CPF is just a tax with specific rules about who pays it and who gets to spend...

Not suicide lah, just some damage. But I think he will do it just after budget debate in Feb (might be early March too). Give out some short-term goodies etc then go for polls when people are still feeling shiok from getting freebies.

Did we use to treat people better? http://remembersingapore.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/vietnamese-boat-people-in-singapore/ I just think Singaporeans are a pretty selfish and heartless bunch of people. This selfishness is why I despair of Singapore ever growing more like Scandinavia (it...

You might be right. I was in primary school in 1991. But the incident happened in 2001 leh. http://sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/414565 Let's see what other forummers can tell us. But nonetheless, does this incident strongly influence our assessment of what kind of person CSJ is...

Yeah, I think people call it a payroll tax in other parts of the world. There're varying specifics but more or less it functions like a tax. A very regressive one, by the way. (You receive social services based EXACTLY on how much you contribute.)...

This is causing me to lose brain cells, Xiaxue critiquing Yawning Bread. At least it'll make more people read Alex Au I hope - which is good.

Great suggestions - so we have a bunch now... let me try to list them out 1. De-politicise People's Association. - cannot assist political parties in elections (provide labour, food, funds, etc to political parties) - cannot assist political party agendas outside of election time (remove...

Your logic reminds me of Vivian Balakrishnan bartop dancing quote. “If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing… a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other...