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If bosses don't practise good leadership, is there any wonder why employees become fat buddhas over time?

Re: Protests break out in UK and India over Singapore’s treatment of Burmese national I am very glad that Burmese nationals overseas are looking out for each other even though they are residing in different countries. It also shows that people abroad are watching SG closely.

Zhihau, much of the fault lies with companies themselves, who: increasingly hire on a contract basis (6 mths, 1 year contract, etc) view employees as a cost unit rather than a productivity unit: in other words, think of employees in terms of how much is costs the company rather than the value...

Challenging the laws In the weeks ahead, 17 of my colleagues and I will face a trial for taking part in an assembly and procession without a permit. Many of us are prepared to go to prison. We can’t wait to go to court and face the judge and prosecution and to tell the world how politically...

Singaporeans not interested in human rights? The Government insists that we Singaporeans exist only to make money. Human rights are not in our makeup. To Singaporeans, even Martian values are less alien than democratic ones. This really seemed the case because for years when I talked about...

Speech by Dr Chee Soon Juan at SDP’s Annual Dinner held on 31 Aug 2008. When I was in jail in 2006, I re-read the book Comet In Our Sky, a compilation of essays written by friends and associates of the late Lim Chin Siong. I will assume most of you here know Lim Chin Siong and will not...

The Star link KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid, the doctor who first examined Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan for alleged sodomy, has confirmed that the Statutory Declaration (SD) he made on Aug 1 was genuine. He also confirmed that the con tents of his SD published in the Malaysia Today...

A group of about 30 Burmese activists in the United Kingdom held a demonstration on the 29 Aug 08 in front of the Singapore Embassy. The demonstrators were members and supporters of Burma’s Kachin National Organisation. Holding placards which read “Support the People, Not the Dictators“, and...

Dear kakowi, I would suggest that new bloggers remain anonymous until they gain sufficient confidence to put their real name in writing. Don't forget, a lot of Singaporeans are not pro-Opposition yet. There are also a lot of bosses, employers, who don't share our ideals of free speech. Many...

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can all these infraction, reputation, etc, be exchanged for $$$?

http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=573 The government has always claimed that abolishing GST for essential items such as food is unwise because it would benefit the wealthier households more as they spend more money on such items as compared to poorer households. However, we should be looking in...

http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=576 The Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS) has released a paper entitled “Engaging New Media – Challenging Old Assumptions”. In this article, I will discuss AIMS’s stand on Government e-engagement and offer my point of view. One of the...

Press Statement by Bloggers 13: AIMS’ proposals are progressive but can be improved Statement for the media 3 September 2008 By Bernard Leong, Benjamin Cheah, Choo Zheng Xi, Gerald Giam, Justin Zhuang, Martyn See, Ng E-Jay, Scott Teng, Roderick Chia, Alex Au 1. The Advisory Council on the...

TODAY link Alicia Wong THEY called the official report “forward looking” but clearly, its recommendations were too cautious and focused on the short-term for one group of bloggers. Five days after the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (Aims) announced its findings came...

Khairy Jamaluddin: In Defence of Those Who Despise Me Written by Khairy Jamaluddin, MP for Rembau 30 Aug 2008 Original Blog Link No other website has caused me as much bad rep and deliberately destroyed my character as Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s Malaysia Today. Yet I cannot help disagreeing...

Time is a psychological construct, and a very creative one at that.

ST link Govt to spend record RM207.9b on people-friendly goodies like tax cuts By Carolyn Hong KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi yesterday unveiled a record spending budget packed with tax cuts and other people-friendly measures, as the government moved to quell unhappiness over the...

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The Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMS) has released a paper entitled “Engaging New Media – Challenging Old Assumptions”. This objective of this paper is to provide a review of the increasingly complex social, ethical, legal and regulatory issues have arisen as a result...