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Latest news says that BP is facing 221 lawsuits and thousands of civil class action suits that could cost the company up to 50 billion US dollars in liability and compensation payouts. The company has already spent 2 billion dollars in trying to cap the blow out well without success. The...

The mandarins running NEA has converted it into a profit center. Deploying most of its staff to sit in coffee shops and hang around public places to catch smokers and litterbugs. Ready to pounce on the unwary with a fine imposition. What about the real job of deploying field officers to...

The French were good at it 2 centuries ago. Do it like the French Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the 63-year-old absolute monarch of this tiny, oil-rich country on Borneo island, married Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim, a former Malaysian TV news journalist, in 2005. Azrinaz, 30, gave birth to the...

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment...

This old man always think he has got everything right. That what he do is always right because he know what is good for HIS Singapore. That is his problem. But there is no one lackey of his willing to tell him he is wrong. Because they like collecting the fat pay checks. For that they...

Why are so many food stalls in various coffee shops closed down? People have no disposable income like before? The salary and wages taken home are on average nearly 40% below the 2008 levels. It is a tough life for many of us.

There is nothing you can do about it. Sporns are FTs in other countries. And other country nationals are FTs in SG. It has been like that all the time. In the past, present and in the future. That's the way it is. With globalization the situation will be more fluid. Sporns who fail...

One can see flyers in estates like Sembawang, Admiralty that shows the price of price of 5 rm flats at 370K to 400 K plus. 4 Rooms below 300K. It appears these high prices are mostly in specific locations in specific areas. Or are we missing something here ? Anyone like to enlighten...

The NEA, or National Enviornment Agency . What work is it doing ? What are its priorities ? It seems its staffs' sole work purpose is to trap, entice sporns to make some littering or smoking violations in order to whack a fine on them. Some of the food centers are in horrible state of...

Easy. Stop protecting these coffee shop cartels who fix prices for everything. These are fat cats who can afford to keep their businesses closed in defiance to any demands to lower prices. Look at them. They do not even have any incentive to innovate, change their business practices or even...

News media gloated that this monopoly GLC earned a profit of over 300 million in fiscal 2009. That is about a million a day. Now what is so great about this company or its management whose only innovative function seems to device ways to enhance its Control N Denial business practice on a...

The much vaunted GLCs, they have no caliber to face competition. Despite so many years of nurturing them by giving them monopol rights, business protection, billions poured into them, ace elite scholars alloed to run them as thier own fiefdoms, paying them million dollar salaries, what have...

In a BBC interview. " The Japanese officer ordered all of us prisoners, to line up and get into the truck. We knew we were to be taken to Changi beach, to be executed. When my turn came to board the truck, I told the soldier that I forgot to bring my clothes and requested him if I could go...

They stay in Australia, Canada , Germany etc as PRs , expats and enjoy free education for their kids, just as the locals, the right to have world class medical and other benefits at the same cost as the locals. Enjoy housing benefits at the same open market price as the locals there. Max out the...

Take a trip on MRT or on the bus. watch the crowds in the malls, the fast food joints, Starbuck outlets, bus interchange, MRT stations. You see a common sight. The females far outnumber the males. watch the lunch time crowds in Raffles place or Shenton Way. You soon notice the great imbalance...