Singapore protest: 'Unfamiliar faces are crowding our land'

[laksaboy]

Great article from The Guardian. Read it.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/15/singapore-crisis-immigration-financial-crisis/print

The bubbling discontent in Singapore has recently been compounded by a string of scandals causing some outsiders to wonder if the Asian utopia so carefully crafted by the nation's so-called founder, Lee Kuan Yew, is finally crumbling. Most young professionals still live at home because they can't afford to move out, the government has had to subsidise speed-dating schemes to encourage partnerships, and abortion rates among married women now account for over half the total – as many families struggle to stay afloat.

 

[Travellor]

yeah swee.....


hope the dumbasses in the 60.1 know wdf is going on tomorrow....

 

[laksaboy]

Oh...by the way
This is true journalism, not the predictable dogshit the SPH churns out day after day, week after week.

Chua Mui Hoong, Han Fook Kwang, Zuraidah Ibrahim and the others: you are a disgrace to the profession of journalism.

 

[wendychan]

i remember the days when journalists from media like asiaweek, etc got into trouble for writing certain things, and lawsuits etc....

 

[tualingong]

every sinkies looked unfamiliar to me.

what is the big deal?

 

[winnipegjets]

They should not be considered journalists ...they are like the propagandists in the China Press.