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New Asia Republic

PAP’s auntie killer got ‘killed’ at the polls again - PAP's Desmond Choo loses Hougang a second time
40 minutes ago
The Online Citizen

Png Eng Huat: I will work by delivering on the promises made during the campaign - By Cheong Yaoming - After 9 days of fierce campaigning by the 2 candidates and their respective parties it all came down to these critical final moments. M...
1 hour ago
Yawning Bread Sampler 2

Workers’ Party routs PAP again - At 62.1% of valid votes cast, Png Eng Huat (Workers’ Party) convincingly defeated Desmond Choo of the People’s Action Party (PAP) in the by-election 26 May...
1 hour ago
My Singapore News

More of the same for Hougang for another 4 years - /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Ta...
1 hour ago
Where Bears Roam Free

WP wins comfortably as expected - So Png Eng Huat has been officially elected as MP of Hougang. The result is expected. There's a slight drop in the WP's margin, but looking at the avalanche ...
2 hours ago
Sgpolitics.net

Victory for Mr Png Eng Huat of the Worker’s Party! - There is a lot of work cut out for Mr Png Eng Huat. He has won his seat amidst a political climate that has become more polarized that ever. He must now un...
2 hours ago
Lee Kuan Yew Watch

Lee Kuan Yew: The next generation of leaders are making a bit of sacrifice - More from the Future of Asia. TR Emeritus: Former Minister Mentor (MM) Lee Kuan Yew claims that the next generation of leaders are not paid “very much” an...
5 hours ago
Support site for the unemployed

Six-Figure Businesses Built for Less Than $100: 17 Lessons Learned - Number of View: 113 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/ The following article is a guest post by Chris Guillibeau, who’s traveled to 150+ countries and s...
6 hours ago
Singapore Notes

Still Trying Their Best - Unlike cry baby Desmond Choo who turned on the tear spigot for maximum effect at the last PAP by-election rally at Hougang, party chairman Khaw Boon Wan re...
14 hours ago
Hard Hitting in the Lion City

X-Men Gay Marriage - As a comic book reader, I of course had picked up X-Men comics before. Once the X-Men were the top of the pile, a must-have, for comic book readers but ...
14 hours ago
mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more - Dear Hougang Residents, we salute you for exercising your right to vote in the face of no public holiday. We also salute the civil servants who kena arrowed ...
14 hours ago
Singapore Entrepreneurs

Beware of superbloggers like Xiaxue (or embrace them) - Twitter celebrities can be a viable part of your brand engagement strategy.
14 hours ago
Rachel Zeng's blog

2,500 pray at Mass for detainees - The Roman Catholic Archbishop Gregory Yong must have felt terrified after his meeting with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on 2 June 1987. It led him to take i...
1 day ago
Yours Truly Singapore

Why a US columnist is rooting for Singapore - Dear Mr Matt Miller, I refer to your Washington Post article that was published by Straits Times on 12 May 2012. Our rise wasn’t from Third World to First ...
1 day ago
Tax Justice Network

Links May 25 - *Capital inflows: Tax accord with Switzerland may bring in billions Financial Times *(subscription required) May 15 - On *Rubik* - Friedrich Rödler, head of...
1 day ago
News Release by UncleYap

HEAT on COOLING OFF DAY Police Tried to Prevent UncleYap Recording New Video @ Election Dept - Recorded on 25.May.2012 outside of Elections Department, the day just before polling day 26.May.2012 for Hougang SMC By-Election. A video was still being r...
1 day ago
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

Plight of a HDB flat buyer....... - *UPDATE:*Admund has provided his mobile number:91557441 and email: admund_tan@yahoo.com If you have questions on specific details of the case, you might wa...
1 day ago
Getting at the truth

Unraveling the unraveling of Facebook - Of the $38 per share price for the investors were coughing up, only $16.24 was going to Facebook, while $21.76 was going to Zuckerberg and friends. [...]
1 day ago
journalism.sg

Forget turning the other cheek. They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the Xiaxue way. - Most of the experienced bloggers I know who have been victims of flaming have opted to take the high road. When on the receiving end of crude personal atta...
1 day ago
the kent ridge common

Dracula - Dracula by The Stage Club is now on till 26th May at DBS Arts Centre. Isaac Tan gives his take on the production.
1 day ago
geraldgiam.sg

Hougang By Election Rally – Healthcare and Upgrading - Voters of Hougang, in two days’ time when you walk into the polling booth, send a message to the PAP that the people of Hougang continue to stand tall, and...
2 days ago
Singapore Social and Political Thoughts

More than 10 Foreign Workers can be housed in a HDB Flat. - Can Desmond Choo and his party the PAP answer why more than 10 foreign workers can be housed in a 4 room HDB flat? Imagine more than 10 pairs of Indian...
2 days ago
ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food

La Pizzaiola: Affordable Pizza for the whole Family! - Parma and Rucola pizza 12 inch $16.90 Have you ever adopted a restaurant before? You know, that's when you are so happy with everything at a particular re...
2 days ago
SpeakSpokeWriteWrote

Integrity ah? Ne’er Mind lah – HUAT first! - WORKERS PARTY! You insincere lot. So you fielded a less worthy candidate! One that you did not even choose to be an NCMP? You scoundrels – you …you…you. ...
2 days ago
Prata Politics

PAP is So Screwed - This By-E is quite horrible. All smears, little style, even less substance, hmm unless substance and style relates to how the PAP tries to undermine WP and...
2 days ago
Feed Me To The Fish

What Makes PAP Is So Detestable? - *Source: TODAYdigital* What Pritam says at 5:40 on how PAP took away 26 community sites from Workers Party Town Council and passed them to Peoples' Associ...
3 days ago
Professional Ground DECODER » Doubtful? The Lion City IR & Casinos

Future of Macau Casino Trade - by: Professional Ground Decoder experts panel Why Analysts Are Wrong About Macau Assumptions Most western investment analysts still don’t understand Chin...
3 days ago
Only "objective" and "factual" political films please, we're Singaporeans

A Reprehensible History: The Internal Security Act - Further readings on publichouse.sg : The Ghosts of Whitley Road Interview with Edgar D'Souza : I Have Always Loved The Catholic Church Withdrawn edition o...
5 days ago
Chia Ti Lik's Blog

Twinkle & The Power of a Single Star – I - Part I - Stargazing from Earth In my recent amateurish astronomical exploits, my observations and ruminations over objects gobular, circular and spherical,...
5 days ago
Mathia Lee ~ Plans and Preoccupations

Is Singapore’s high GINI a reason for it’s low Total Fertility Rate? - Could a major reason for Singapore’s appallingly low Total Fertility Rate(TFR) be the appallingly high GINI Coefficient? I’m not referring to the struggle...
6 days ago
TR EMERITUS

From attacking WP to attacking YSL so to make the BE local - And also ‘you go low key, I also go low key’ to make it a local election. There is a strategic shift for the PAP in Hougang by-election. Suddenly, they re...
1 week ago
Singapore Recalcitrant

A much- diffident PAP in Hougang by-election - The general public perception was that it was going to be a prolonged wait for the Hougang by-election to take place given the enigmatic attitude of PM Lee...
2 weeks ago
Temasek Hedge

JPM US$2B “error” demonstrate how little banks learnt from the GFC - Never mind the fancy theories about how JP Morgan’s CIO value-at-risk models failed to take into account Bruno Iksil’s massive tail risk on synthetic deriv...
2 weeks ago
Simply Gab

THOR - The HOugang Rematch - It’s like World Cup season just that it’s not about football. The election fever is back, but this time it’s happening at the hottest and most controvers...
2 weeks ago
catherinelim.sg

One Year After A Watershed Election: Reading The Signs - One year after the watershed General Election of May 2011 (GE 2011), political observers, reading the signs being sent out by the government, must be wonde...
2 weeks ago
My sketchbook

One year after the general election-back in business - Subscribe to My sketchbook
2 weeks ago
Salary.sg - Your Salary in Singapore

45.4% of Workers in Singapore Are Foreigners - Two years ago, we estimated that 44% of Singapore’s workforce are non-citizens. Well, we were wrong. The actual figure is 45.4%, a little higher than our e...
3 weeks ago
nofearSingapore

8th maid falls to death in less than 4 months: Action needed now! - Dear Friends, Another Indonesian maid has fallen to her death whilst cleaning her employer’s dirty windows! (click here) This is the eighth death this...
4 weeks ago
Siew Kum Hong

Show us you mean business - There's been a lot of talk about the Government's proposal for an online code of conduct, and today the Institute of Public Studies organised a closed-door...
4 weeks ago
Mr Wang Says So

Two Duds on a Friday Morning - Where was I, at that time? Up on a hilly park called Nam-San, somewhere in Seoul. My Korean colleagues had assured me that this was the peak of cherry blos...
5 weeks ago
The Enquirer

A look inside Myammar - Myanmar will hold by-elections tomorrow, with the country’s democracy icon Ms Aung San Suu Kyi running as a candidate. The country, located between India, ...
1 month ago
Seelan Palay's Blog

A peek into the life of Chee Soon Juan - Yahoo News, Feb 27 2012 The Chee family stand at the doorway of their home. (Yahoo! photo/Jeanette Tan) Every morning, Chee Soon Juan drives his three ch...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
Inner Workings

IIF Talks Its Book - The world will come to an end if the Greek default is disorderly, warns the Institute for International Finance. Must be Purim if the bankers are trying to...
2 months ago
Kaffein-nated

Seriously, MP Chen's proposal a Nigerian scam? - Here is MP Chen Show Man's parliamentary speech (link here). He was lambasted by MP Vikram Nair who called it a Nigerian scam. Now that you have heard his...
2 months ago
My Thoughts...

ITE Student Feedback - Well, I was clearing out my old materials when I came across a collection of feedback essays that I got my students to write during the New Curriculum Trac...
2 months ago
Veritas

Singaporeans under attack by FT Indians 7: The worst racists in universe accuse Singaporeans racist - *I believe at most, 3% in the party tanned their skin (can someone send me more info). Most probably can't be bothered even to buy a costume. Why make the...
3 months ago
Yaw Shin Leong @ WP

Hougang Residents Celebrate CNY - Last Friday, Mr Yaw Shin Leong, Mr Low Thia Khiang & Mr Pritam Singh joined Hougang SMC residents in a celebration to mark the 12th day of CNY. The 3 MPs ...
3 months ago
Temasek Revealed

Confirmed: PAP denying Singaporean students university admissions - Responding to questions in a forum held by Singapore Management University(SMU), Education Minister Heng Swee Keat confirmed that the PAP government are de...
3 months ago
npTribune

Running a Campus - Many students use having neither time nor place as an excuse to avoid running. npTribune thus explores the alternatives within the campus that are both con...
3 months ago
Icarus Flew Too High

On Transparency and the Expenses Approach - It is certainly good to see that there has been a healthy debate over the salaries and renumerations of Singapore’s ministers. If you have not kept up with...
4 months ago
Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City

Tio NDP - [Source: http://sporesays.blogspot.com/] How apt.
6 months ago
Civic Advocator * Shout and be heard in Singapore

Advantages And Disadvantages of Structured Settlements - A structured settlement is a scheme where, instead of a lump sum amount of cash, which granted applicant have agreed a tax-free payment magazine. Structure...
6 months 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...
7 months 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 traine...
7 months ago
Singabloodypore

Singabloodypore RSFblog CLOSING - 21.07.2011 Rsfblog closes In 2006, Reporters Without Borders...
7 months ago
Hazel Poa

Why “Cherry-Picking” Is Good For Commuters - Date: 1 August 2011 Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew argues that the National Solidarity Party’s proposal for more competition in bus services would lead to...
9 months ago
Singapore Dino

New Cabinet a start, but public must continue scrutiny - PM Lee promised to make real changes to his government. Having looked at the list of names making up the new cabinet, here are some thoughts I have. *Mr Te...
1 year 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) ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Chapter Two: Reload - If there’s anyone still following this blog, you would know that I no longer actively write on this blog other than to do some maintenance from time to tim...
1 year ago
Fit to Post - Yahoo! Singapore News » Remembering Dr. Goh Keng Swee

Ride It Right, Take Away The Aches - by Dr Jason Chia “I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it where I like” ~ Queen, “Bicycle Race” The me...
1 year ago
Blowin' In The Wind

Lee Kuan Yew’s last election as PM - The 1988 parliamentary elections were the last fought by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew as prime minister of Singapore. He had been prime minister since June...
1 year ago
To Fix a Mocking Peasant

Livejournal Spam - Livejournal is an official spam sponge. Argh.
1 year ago
ed’s Blog - Vox

I've moved! - Hi neighbors. I've moved my blog to TypePad. You can now visit me at http://according2ed.typepad.com/blog/. You can follow me on TypePad by visiting my pr...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Today In Singapore

No Boobies Please, We’re Singaporeans - A nightclub in Singapore offering free drinks to women according to the cup size of their bra is making world headlines. Read all about it from Malaysia’s ...
2 years ago
Singaporean Skeptic

Hate Crime in Malaysia - It sucks to be a non-muslim in Malaysia. Muslim fanaticss in Malaysia can do whatever they want (oppress other religion) and then when people ask them why ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Everyday's Life in a Snapshot- for lesser mortals only

been busy this while, - but i will be back, like mas selemat. i was up to seditious activities to bring down the State. ISD officers spying everywhere, i was just joking. and fare...
2 years ago
a blog day's work

Cash grant for buyers of HDB flats - The Hammer The Workers’ Party Issue No: 0802 Once again, Singapore is seeing an upswing of the property market, with private property prices surging 31%, a...
3 years ago

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