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I find this statement to be ludicrous given that they have given so many goodies to themselves.

We just need to rejig it so that - CPF is no longer taking on the duty of being a public housing / healthcare fund. Separate these latter two concerns out and fund it separately. Once this three is separated then the man on the street can make a clearer decision on whether the government is...

To be fair, Chee was never that bad - I think most would agree he is more a victim of demonisation (say 70%) conducted by the establishment and I would say he is more of an activist from the political left. Combine the two and you get an insight into what the Old Man and consequently the PAP...

I am not surprised by the fact that the process to send the riot police out took too long. Every Singaporean male who has served National Service is aware of it and every person working in the civil service or for it is aware of it. It is endemic in the government and to a lesser degree, all...

The enactment of minimum wage in Singapore is more about 'face' in politics rather than any genuine economic policy for the incumbent. If they are the ones enacting it, they are implicitly acknowledging that the tripartite arrangement has become a giant wayang and has become largely ineffectual...

I find it more illuminating about his character, personality and the environment he is cocooned in that he make comments about Malaysia's policies when it would be salient and relevant to Singapore if he comments on the brain drain from Singapore to other countries that began as early as the...

If I recall, his first two books are pretty okay since they are just telling his story and the history of Singapore, etc. However, it is from his perspective so when you reach the part of his struggles against his various enemies, take it with a grain of salt and think carefully about his...

Amusing anecdote: I was having my dinner when I overheard this fact in Chinese being muttered by an old uncle to an old auntie (presumably his wife) in a food court while he was reading Lianhe Zaobao. All I can say Singaporeans are not fools. As far as I can tell, it is now a matter of courage...

As someone has pointed out, people who actually vote based on whether the guy / gal is gay or not seriously are not going to vote for VW in the first place. VW will just need to work harder to connect with these people in the first place to show that he's in it for all Singaporeans. And it was...

Lesson learnt is that monetary stimulus can only bring you so far - like begging can only bring you so far. Since the banks have already tightened up credit + lending, at most what the QE has done is to give more money to those who already have the money to gobble up even more assets. The well...

As I understand from friends working in F&B, the ones holding all the cards are the landlords, which the government will never take on unless Tharman grow two big brass ones and reintroduce rent controls once more to sic it to the realtors. The talk about foreign labour is merely focusing...

I am sure the Old Man has no lack of people in the ranks who are loyal to him, be it via conscious choice due to the monetary rewards they have received or due to the pseudo personality cult that the state has cultivated around his achievements. However in the event of an electoral defeat, do...

For the smaller apartments, they might as well lift the restrictions on singles entirely - i.e. just need to be Singaporean and no limits on age or income ceiling.

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month And despite all this talk of Yahoo, this new regulation will allow this government the mechanism to act against any potential media entity which becomes as potent as Yahoo SG. Remember this when some foreign based...

Re: New licensing scheme for news websites that reach 50,000 people a month I agree this is nothing more than a measure to cow the most prominent online sites into becoming more friendly to the establishment. However, I am highly skeptical that it will end well. What worked in the past might...