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There are many closely contested constituents this time with quality candidates from different parties and heightened interest among the public. For Tampines, Baey Yam Keng was redeployed last minute by the PAP top hierarchy. Also,the Arrowhead is well recognised in the West just like the...

TOC had a recent article on parliamentary debate on foreign workers levies brought up by Low Thia Kiang. QUOTE In a flash of presumptuousness, Teo declared: “I can speak on behalf of the union leaders that we totally and firmly reject Mr Low’s disastrous suggestion that we remove the foreign...

This statement is unnecessary. Many petty thiefts were committed by Malays and Indians, just ask any retailers and taxi drivers.

I do not see any wrong doings from the Ah Tiongs in both cases. I came from a poor background and it was normal to ask for discounts in the old days. Fruits are named differently in different countries, this also applies to Indians and Southeast Asians. I also know of many Singaporeans who...

This description applies to a large numbers of scholars that I know of, I don't see how that helps PAP.

Thank you. You may post it in other threads. I feel the mis-representation of the HDB room numbers gave Singaporeans a false sense of social advancements when they introduced gradation (like 4-rm/5-rm, HDB) that was essentially the same tier by private property convention. Also, foreigners had...

Hi, this is related to HDB issues. Please bear with me on the long rant. I had an Indonesian friend who asked me about my family. I told him I lived in a HDB 3-rm flat with my family of which there were 5 of us. My wife and I stayed in the master room and the kids lived in the other room. He...

Let's have one min silence for 900 retrenched and their families from DBS in the first and last meaningful act of an incoming, attention seeking, macho CEO whose last name was RICH. AT a time when the bank was still making huge profits, the somewhat unnecessary cuts was far more than it was in...

Well, it is a windfall if the retrenchment is conducted by the government. Remember the 200 million retrenchment by HDB some years back, people are paid to be 'retrenched' from HDB to doing the same job at HDB corporation. Effectively a privatisation exercise with HDB corporation guaranteed all...

Yaw didn't get carried away representing his Singapore man. I mentioned he has personal business interests in Vietnam, he is selling his country by quickly apologising on his blog. This is the man who voted for PAP after asking everyone else to do the opposite in AMK. I do not wish to see...

Apologies on behalf of the whole nation is not offering opinions. I hereby apologise, on behalf of the Worker's Party Executive Committee about Yaw Shin Leong's politicking on sports events for own personal business agenda.

In his blog: "On behalf of my fellow Singaporeans, I wish to assure our Vietnamese cousins that the majority of Singaporeans are not like that. We offer our sincere apology to all of you over this very ugly episode." Yaw apologised to Vietnamese fans on behalf of all Singaporeans. Excuse me...

Taxi and civil servants are the 2 professions where only singaporeans are allow. You know the quality of both. Trouble is people do not dare to voice out against one, but find it easy to thrash the other group.

The existing teachers are already overpaid losers in society before the coming recession. You need not worry more than usual.

This is the father of the femaleMP who suggested in Parliament that foreign workers be housed in floating houses offshore. So much for taking care of workers. NTUC, for power or for workers? Surely you know how workers are treated relative to businesses here.

I know this woman Dorothy, she was previously from us brokerage Refco, which was then subsequently bought over by MFGlobal. Despite not being highly educated, she was able to command high position because she was always mixing with this core group of Christians and Catholics in the company which...

Our economic growth has mainly been driven by foreign labour factor input,. economic growth figures do not transpire to real wage growth for Singaporeans. Government will enact series of policies to help Singapore grow, but that growth is irrelevant to Singaporeans. Even in universities...

It was precisely because employers are able to pull a fast one in singapore, thats why the labour structure has been exposed. In other countries, some would need employers to inform unions in advance, or to prove that additional measures had been taken before job cuts were considered, such as...

Tell this to our million dollars ministers. High salaries help prevent corruption you know. In a bank this is important. The locals are helping to prevent corruption.

Ok Hunter, apologies if I got carried away. On the labour front, its hard for those outside the civil service to understand the hardship in private sector. Whether you are PAP or Opp, to have a Labour Chief that can only express disappointment is a huge disappointment in itself. There is...