Singapore News Alternative: Hong Lim Park Countdown - 31 Dec 2008, 6pm

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Thoughts of a Cynical Investor

China’s export engine slowed sharply in March - China’s export engine slowed sharply in March as war in the Middle East triggered shocks to energy and transportation costs, hurting global demand and expo...
5 hours ago
My Singapore News

Every war the American terrorists started makes China stronger - Without fail, every war the American terrorists started is a great reprieve for China, giving China time and peace to continue to grow its economy without...
6 hours ago
Yours Truly Singapore

Revisiting theory behind Wolbachia mosquitoes - As much as I can recall, the Wolbachia project involves releasing Wolbachia infected male mosquitoes. Since male mosquitoes do not bite humans, there shoul...
6 days ago
geraldgiam.sg

Mobile Dead Zones on the MRT - In Parliament on 6 Mar 2026 I asked the Minister for Digital Development and Information whether a public dashboard could be created to track mobile networ...
4 weeks ago
The Online Citizen

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
3 months ago
Kaffein-nated

God moments behind cooking my beef Omurice lunch - Today I tried to cook Beef Omurice lunch for my family. Needless to say, it was a complete disaster. See the photos, nothing like the expected results. To...
5 months ago
Senang Diri

Former Malaysian PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad shares first impressions of Pukul Habis -
8 months ago
mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore

Love Song for Singapore (2025 Edition) - This song was written way back in August 2008 for National Day 2008, by Marc Nair and myself, for the mrbrown show podcast. And then we were invited to per...
8 months ago
Salary.sg - Your Salary in Singapore

Discover Top-Rated Hotels in Chinatown Singapore for an Unforgettable Stay Experience - Chinatown, Singapore, is a vibrant cultural hub that seamlessly blends the traditional with the modern, making it one of the most captivating districts i...
1 year ago
The Heart Truths

Marketing Channels available to Matchmakers - Matchmakers employ a variety of strategies to find the perfect matches for their clients, offering a far more personalized and effective alternative to onl...
1 year ago
Lee Kuan Yew Watch

วัดพระศรีสรรเพชญ์ จังหวัดพระนครศรีอยุธยา - วัดพระศรีสรรเพชญ์ สำหรับในบทความนี้เราจะมาพูดถึง […]
3 years ago
Getting at the truth

Virginia Thomas, and Husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Side of Jan 6 Rioters - Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Shortly after the 2020 election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clar...
4 years ago
Singapore Entrepreneurs

Animoca pockets $65m in funding from Ubisoft, Sequoia, others - Animoca will use the funds - raised at a valuation of US$2.2 billion - for investments, acquisitions, and licenses for popular intellectual properties.
4 years ago
Reinventing the Rice Bowl

Inventor from NY Unveils World’s First Oral Nutraceutical Pouch - Peter St. Lawrence (“Saint”) is an American inventor and entrepreneur (inventurepreneur) who has invented the World’s first patent pending oral nutraceutic...
5 years ago
My Thoughts...

COVID-19 in New Zealand - Lockdown Data Looks Promising - One week into the national lockdown to contain the Coronavirus pandemic and the people of New Zealand are coping reasonably well. Economically, there are ...
6 years ago
Support site for the unemployed

Unemployed Singaporean chanced upon a bridging program in NTU meant for foreigners from China - Hi Gilbert Thanks for your reply. This was information that I obtained when I went for an interview for the position [thinking it was for locals]. My under...
6 years ago
Singapore Recalcitrant

Is there a minority uprising against Chinese majoritarianism ? - You may not see this in the main stream media, especially the Straits Times which is understandable. But the social media is deluged with angry minority di...
6 years ago
Ravi Philemon

MCI takes out FB ad on video Punggol Waterway Terraces collapse hoax to justify POFMA, but FB users point out that it is a bad example for a terrible law - The Ministry of Communication and Information (MCI) has taken out a Facebook ad titled, 'Get real about fake news', The ad is taken out after the PAP-contr...
6 years ago
Seelan Palay's Blog

Arcade Fire - Modern Man - So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man And the people behind me, they can't understand Makes me feel like Makes me feel like So I wait in line, I'm a modern ...
7 years ago
nofearSingapore

SMC must act fast to stem the loss of confidence in self-regulation process - MOH must help stem loss of confidence in SMC self-regulatory process In more than 35 years as a doctor in Singapore, I have never felt more despondent as n...
7 years ago
Yawning Bread Sampler 2

Spoons speak of political Islam - The photo above is of a cutlery tray at an ordinary food court. Those of us familiar with Singapore’s food courts will be able to read significance into th...
7 years ago
My sketchbook

Most expensive in town - Subscribe to My sketchbook
7 years ago
Sgpolitics.net

Henry Kissinger: ‘We are in a very, very grave period’ - Lunch with the FT Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger: ‘We are in a very, very grave period’ The grand consigliere of American diplomacy talks about Putin, the...
7 years ago
npTribune

[CONTEST] WIN a copy of Hello, my name is Joseph Schooling - The UrbanWire will be giving away 5 copies of Hello, my name is Joseph Schooling! The post [CONTEST] WIN a copy of Hello, my name is Joseph Schooling ap...
7 years ago
TR EMERITUS

Time for change in SAF - The recent passing of CFC Dave has sparked fierce online debates on the treatment of National Servicemen-Full Time (NSFs). An online account allegedly writ...
7 years ago
Veritas

Range of A350, 787 and 777x according to United Airlines - Add caption The above diagram is from United Airlines presentation. Surprisingly, 787-9 flies longer A350-900 according to United, contradicting the o...
8 years ago
the kent ridge common

The Influence of Toxic Masculinity on Religious Extremism - Former president of the American Sociological Association, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, remarked in 2006 “that the boundary based on sex creates the most fundame...
8 years ago
Hard Hitting in the Lion City

Comics this week - Deadly Class #27- Don't fix what's not broken, and writer Rick Remender followed that formula this issue as he crafted a good-old-fashioned-revenge story a...
9 years ago
Balding's World

Hacksaw Ridge - WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes […] The post Hacksaw Ridge appeared...
9 years ago
Rachel Zeng's blog

In response to AWARE’s proposal to amend its policy on male membership - The following is written in solidarity with my friends from within the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) who intend to speak out against...
9 years ago
catherinelim.sg

The Next PAP Leadership: More Of The Same Or A Whole New Game? - On 22 February 2016, I was one of the participants at an event organised by Singapore Arts Museum, entitled ‘Roundtable@SAM Big Ideas of a Small Nation: Pe...
10 years ago
Temasek Hedge

Secura: kena tackle by bear market - Despite the best efforts of the issuers to create a great marketing story around Secura Group’s IPO (detachable calls to purchase at 35 cents within 3 year...
10 years ago
Singapore Social and Political Thoughts

12 September 2015 - A Tsunami for Singapore Opposition - The people had spoken, since almost 70% voted yes to PAP, giving them almost 10% improvement, so be it..... So do not complain ok?
10 years ago
Singapore Notes

With Friends Like These - Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen at Toa Payoh Stadium rally was asking the crowd who protects Singapore if the defence budget is cut. He cited external threats ...
10 years ago
Only "objective" and "factual" political films please, we're Singaporeans

Videos : Vincent Cheng and Teo Soh Lung describe their detentions - Published on Jun 28, 2015 Former political prisoner Vincent Cheng describes his arrest in 1987 by the secret police who entered his home at 5am in the m...
10 years ago
Professional Ground DECODER » Doubtful? The Lion City IR & Casinos

Is About Sustainable Wagering Volume, Stupid! Genting Singapore IR Casino - An extraction of Singapore local media report on Genting Singapore (Sentosa) casino’s pathetic performance… Assessment by Professional Ground: the bad in-f...
10 years ago
Hazel Poa

- *CPF Minimum Sum – Making it Meaningful* As had been pointed out before, the issue with CPF is not the increasing CPF Minimum Sum, it is inadequate retire...
11 years ago
SpeakSpokeWriteWrote

Embrace Life - We were having dinner the other day when my dear cousin Doreen made mention of the pain she is having. I smiled and asked her, “Are you talking to me about...
11 years ago
ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food

Sliced Grouper with Ginger and Spring Onion recipe - Stir fried sliced grouper is one of those classic dishes that you order at the restaurants as well as the Cze Char. It is also one of those dishes that yo...
11 years ago
Tax Justice Network

The new Tax Justice Network website and blog is now live - We have a completely new website! It's in the *same place as before*. Please take a look. From now on our blog will be integrated into the new site. We...
12 years ago
Chia Ti Lik's Blog

My Grown Up Christmas List - It’s the time of the year when it’s the end of the year. The usual things that occupy me would be squeezing time and space to do an area cleaning of my off...
12 years ago
Siew Kum Hong

An unexpected email 6 years later - I received this email a few days ago from someone I don't know -- let's call her Kit. The letter is self-explanatory. I'm glad that Kit now feels better a...
12 years ago
Mr Wang Says So

Gilbert Koh's Miscellaneous Poetry Updates - Just for my own records. Before I forget where, when or how my poems pop up. *Little Things: A Poetry Anthology* Ethos Books is coming up with a new antho...
12 years ago
BLUTA-log

Mitigating Interest Rate Risks in Your Properties. - In our earlier blog entry on Who will be Hardest Hit by 3.5% Interest Rate, we identified the homeowners most likely to be affected by the interest rate un...
12 years ago
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

It is the govt that has to be regulated not the online news ... - It is almost a month since my last posting. It is a bit hard to explain why I have not written as much as I did in the past. There are no major changes in ...
12 years ago
Simply Gab

MDA Licensing Outcry – is it an overreaction? - The ‘blogging community’ is up in arms over MDA’s new licensing framework for online news sites. I use air quotes to describe this community as they are...
12 years ago
Feed Me To The Fish

More Singaporeans Should Be The Ripples That We Are! - Robert F. Kennedy said, “F*ew will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numbe...
13 years ago
groundnotes

What a scoop! - We all try a little too hard sometimes. The Straits Times today (16 March 2012) ran a feature piece entitled “The ‘engage and consult’ route in policy revi...
14 years ago
New Asia Republic

Personality politics plagues Singapore - Let’s face it: Singapore politics is full of personalities, from Lee Kuan Yew, J.B. Jeyaretnam, Chiam See Tong, Chee Soon Juan to Kenneth Jeyaretnam.
14 years ago
Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City

Tio NDP - [Source: http://sporesays.blogspot.com/] How apt.
14 years ago
Jacob 69er

At last, the new normal gives way to the old abnormal - At last, the new normal gives way to the old abnormal – Martyn See Police investigate technology-enabled ISA discussions, James Gomez, 14 Oct 2011 The Sing...
14 years ago
BEYOND SG

Why I know the Singapore economy is coming down - One of the privilege in working in the Monetary Authority of Singapore is you get to see the port activity when you look out the windows. When I was a trai...
14 years ago
SNA Election News

As Singapore Gets Ready to Vote, New Media Amplifies Voice of Opposition - Time.com, 6 May 2011 Singapore is one of the most wired countries on earth. Nearly every resident of the city state carries a mobile phone (some carry two) ...
14 years ago
Alas, a blog! Live life, like you give a damn!

This blog has moved to harishpillay.wordpress.com - Looks like I did not post here that I've moved my blog from livejournal to workdpress. Please see: https://harishpillay.wordpress.com Thanks for continu...
14 years ago
To Fix a Mocking Peasant

Livejournal Spam - Livejournal is an official spam sponge. Argh.
15 years ago
Chee Siok Chin's Blog

Exposing the truth scares the PAP - I managed to finish reading Alan Shadrake’s book the afternoon that it was launched in Singapore on Saturday. The book tells of criminal offenders who have...
15 years ago
Singaporean Skeptic

sigghh...Non-Singaporeans do not get it. - Spoke to someone from China today about opportunities in Singapore. The person was a former PRC and now a PR doctor in the US. I was asked why I didn't wan...
16 years ago
Cavalierio

Reflections on the guillotine - Some compelling words by Albert Camus in his eloquent 'Reflections on the Guillotine'. The original essay is much longer, and worth its every word. I'll l...
16 years ago
Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations

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