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Dear Scroobal, Honestly the "trial within a trial " is a tried and tested defence tactic to overturns one initial signed statement given to the police under allegations of TIPs. This is especially true if your first signed statement to the police without presence of counsel , is a...

Dear Wong, I laughed so hard after reading your post and this is not in jest. Firstly any of the old timers who have read my posts, known me, met me would know that I have zero legal training. But I am flattered and insulted at the same time for you to think I am part of AGC. Believe me...

Dear Wong. The reason that Professor Teh is a goner and that NBG goose was saved is as clear as day and much of it was due to NBG hiring the best legal help possible and trusting in that legal help. But in legal detail, the cases between NBG and PT bought the following similarities...

Dear Arun The read from the ground when I was up in Malaysia last week is that 1) MCA is looking at a total wipe out in JB. 2) PKR states are not ripe for Umno fight back. 3) UMNO Malay majority states are at risk, esp rural heartlands. We shall see how far they swing esp over the felda...

Dear Scroo. I have heard annecdotes about LHL calling the authors of papers to check the details and the said Authors actually putting the phone down on him or muttering some expletive thinking its a stitch up. Yet its this very same detail orientated , hard working Prime...

Dear Scroo, Why would a PAP system in all its glory not select or call forth people like Paul T and the rest. People with credentials and or a social conscience. ? I believe that what a politician says in public and what a politician says in private are two differing things, but for...

Dear Scroobal The three cases thus far involving sex for favours are driven to a large degree by the presumption invoked within the PCA act, and the hard ball strategy of CPIB in building a case at any cost and getting AGC to prosecute at any costs. In so much as all three cases have...

Dear Scroo The power is exercised behind the scenes through the party. The politics of the communist party and the old Kremlin was probably more transparent then the power structures here. How did CCS fresh out of the gate gain enough votes to be on the CEC and not co opted , whilst...

Dear Scroo The long forlorn cry of G Yeo to save his political skin comes to mind. Facing defeat, he promises to be the voice of reform for the PAP. Budget 2013 could have saved Georgie in 2011, but it was not put into play. KBW and Tharmen per 2011, worked within I believe the...

Dear Scroo HSK was and is the perennial scholar plucked from being a Mandarin into political leadership. It was rumoured that he was well liked on the ground when he did his tour in charge of Jurong as a police officer and well regarded during his time as a mandarin. How far...

Dear Scroo A story I heard lately goes as follows. Temasek led by HC has her own favourites amongst the many "Ivy Leaguers" she hires, however the time frame for them to perform by increasing profits is in true consultancy style is in the region of year following which with non performance...

Dear Scroo, We will see in our hospitals more Indian, Pakistani and even Australian doctors. The reason for the overwhelming presence is the result of an underinvestment in the past. A hospital can be built in three, the equipment ordered and delivered in a year and a half, Nurses a...

Dear Scroobal This budget has the mark of " Tharman" on it. And its a budget for which we should thank the voters of Aljunied , PE, and finally the resounding voices of Singaporeans of all colours who rose against the "white paper". When I read the details my first and only question...

Scroobal The reason why the WP numbers start at the current rate is for to long the PAP has allowed SMEs and MNCs to drink at the chalice of cheap foreign labor. The costs of adjustment go up as the numbers go up. Its no longer a question of the ideal solution or an ideal number, its...

Dear Scroo, As a born bred Penangnite. Please check out the recommendations at www.what2seeonline , her street food recommendations are on the dot. Locke

Re: Ngiam Siew Ying - The superscale NPTD Director who wrote the 6.9 million White Pa Dear Scroo They decided on a target GDP and they decided 6.9 million was the figure. :_)) Locke

Re: Ngiam Siew Ying - The superscale NPTD Director who wrote the 6.9 million White Pa Dear Arun, Scroobal. I remember one "world famous" quote from the PM about the ERC committee in 2001 or 2002. " We turned up all the stones and put them back in the same place " Scroobal and...

Dear Scroo How far the apple has fallen from the tree. LKY said " follow me", Singaporeans followed and he and the first generation paid back their trust. LHL says " follow me" and we have all resoundingly told him, " f u". There is an old saying, the smarter we become the stupider...

Dear Arun, Scroo and GD. The authorities are now caught in a bind. Firstly they hyped the case and they lost it. It was an unmitigated disaster for Steven as the choice to charge was his and the case was conducted under his watch. a. Charging Ceceilia Sue would be a disaster...

Dear Scroobal, Ever wondered how institutions composed of the most able and smartest men on the face of the planet fail ? The failure of investment banks., the near death experience of IBM, and other famous corporate giants , that classic book , " The anatomy of military failure"...