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Why can’t we be transparent – for once – on labour statistics? - Lee Kuan Yew’s warning about foreign workers? I was tagged by Yeoh Lam Keong to a facebook photo which quoted Lee Kuan Yew in 2010- “In five years, you wi...
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Singapore Entrepreneurs

Video: The AR office of the not-too-distant future - An augmented reality workspace might be the future of your office - as shown off here with the Meta 2 AR headset.
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Support site for the unemployed

Polytechnic student’s internship from hell at Bizhub Asia Pte Ltd - Chanced upon this complaint. I have to say I agree that Bizhub Asia Pte Ltd is a really bad place to be working in. I did my 3 months’ polytechnic internsh...
20 hours ago
My Singapore News

The race stated in your IC tak pakai - Is the race stated in your BC/IC legal? The issue of your race has never been so controversial, so ambiguous, so subjective and so disputable until this mi...
1 day ago
Thoughts of a Cynical Investor

“Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation” - “Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation” was said by George Carlin. He was an American stand-up black comedy comedian, actor, author, and social cr...
1 day ago
Salary.sg - Your Salary in Singapore

How to win your trades in Forex - Winning is the hardest thing to do in Forex. Many traders have been trying very hard to win their trades to make a consistent profit. Some traders blame th...
3 days ago
npTribune

Children’s Biennale: A Fiesta of Colors - Many have a whale of a time at Singapore’s inaugural Children’s Biennale at the National Gallery. The post Children’s Biennale: A Fiesta of Colors appear...
3 days ago
Senang Diri

Comments on the expansion of the Republic of Singapore Air Force RSAF Tengah Air Base - Extract from The War Against Japan, Volume I, The Loss of Singapore Chapter XXI, page 353, Singapore Airfields Untenable *"Towards the end of December 194...
3 days ago
the kent ridge common

Allowing Yourself to Grieve - Today wasn’t a good day for me. In fact, every day of this year isn’t a good for me. But I’ve learnt the importance of allowing yourself to grieve, simply ...
4 days ago
Veritas

Singapore Airlines Group now bigger than Cathay Pacific in terms of passenger-km - On June 2017, Singapore Airlines Group (including Scoot and Silkair) has higher passenger-km than Cathay Pacific Group (including Dragon air) for the first...
5 days ago
My sketchbook

Speak Mandarin campaign 2017 - Wrong Chinese character used for Speak Mandarin campaign 2017. Subscribe to My sketchbook
1 week ago
mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore

Kim Huat on the NSL Disruption - Kim Huat feels your pain during the MRT line disruption at the North-South Line today. YouTube link: https://youtu.be/kAX9MqAmcgM
2 weeks ago
Seelan Palay's Blog

Guerrilla Art Hunt at Sungei Road Market - I will showing a series of new artworks at the Guerrilla Art Hut at Sungei Road from 7-9 July 2017. Come support the artists and see how many works you c...
2 weeks ago
Yours Truly Singapore

Hypocritical anti-colonialism - I refer to the 1 Jun 2017 Straits Times letter “Colonial era an important part of Singapore’s story” by Mr Gabriel Cheng Kian Tiong. Hypocritical anti-colo...
3 weeks ago
Reinventing the Rice Bowl

The Lee Family’s Path to Exile - I find myself deeply saddened by the recent statement put out by Hsien Yang and Wei Ling posted in the Straits Times and which has been covered by nearly e...
5 weeks ago
Singapore Recalcitrant

The conundrum of the Elected Presidency - Singaporeans are so inured to the sophistry of the PAP demagogues that they now take it in their stride for its face value.When the whole of Singapore had ...
3 months ago
Ravi Philemon

The 5th Elected President of Singapore may be a 'tainted' President - Dr Tan Cheng Bock yesterday urged the Government to make the next Presidential Election (PE) an open one and not one reserved for a minority candidate. Un...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
TR EMERITUS

What to do if the husband on a dating site is yours - According to unemotional statistical data, singlehood is the scourge of Singapore population. The percentage of single men and women in 2000 was 51,7%, in ...
4 months ago
geraldgiam.sg

Whither democracy? - At WP Youth Wing’s Youth Hangouts yesterday, we discussed the topic of democracy. We had a very encouraging turnout from mostly polytechnic and university ...
5 months ago
Rachel Zeng's blog

Interview with a Security Guard - In 2010, a Singaporean taxi driver, Cai Mingjie, published his bestselling work memoir Diary of a taxi driver : true stories from Singapore’s most educated...
5 months ago
Yawning Bread Sampler 2

Fake alarms from fake news - As the contestation over the “alternate facts” so beloved by the Trump administration crescendoes — as it surely will over the coming months — the Singapor...
6 months ago
Sgpolitics.net

China flips Trump the bird - Outside a shopping mall in Taiyuan, north China’s Shanxi province, a giant sculpture of a chicken that looks like US president-elect Donald Trump has been ...
6 months ago
Kaffein-nated

Joseph Schooling - my heartiest congratulations to you! - Joseph Schooling, you did Singapore and your parents proud. Finally an Olympic gold medal! Now readers, read this (link) ... again. And go figure where mos...
11 months ago
The Heart Truths

Singaporeans Pay High Rates for Health Insurance, but Get Back Low Returns; Other Countries Pay Low Rates, Get High Returns - This is the third part of a series of articles that I have written on healthcare financing over the past one month, which compares how much Singaporeans ar...
11 months ago
Professional Ground DECODER » Doubtful? The Lion City IR & Casinos

Why Genting Singapore Casino Performes Badly - The above news report exactly highlights the following big weaknesses of Genting Singapore Casino: – Very weak in managing the IMA ( internal marketing age...
1 year ago
Getting at the truth

Redacted Pages Of 9/11 Report Show Saudi Involvement - The U.S. 9/11 Report Former Sen. Bob Graham and others are urging the Obama administration to declassify redacted pages of a report that holds 9/11 secre...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
nofearSingapore

Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) scheme: Changes needed - Dear Friends, Now that the dust has started to settle after the dramatic GE2015, I have some thoughts on how the Non-constituency Member of Parliament (N...
1 year 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?
1 year ago
Singapore Notes

We Wuz Robbed - The Singapore version of September 11 is a tragedy comparable to happened at America in 2001. There, jihadists flew jet planes into the North and South to...
1 year ago
Only "objective" and "factual" political films please, we're Singaporeans

2011 - 2015 : A Chronology of Authoritarian Rule in Singapore - *Apr/May 2011 (General Elections):* A year before elections, PM Lee Hsien Loong announced a "24-hour cooling-off" before polling day, stating that no ele...
1 year 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 retirem...
2 years ago
Lee Kuan Yew Watch

Mr Lee Kuan Yew still warded at SGH, closely monitored by doctors - Lee Kuan Yew apparently remains alive, barely. ST: Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew remains warded in the Intensive Care Unit at the Singapore General H...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
3 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...
3 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 ab...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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 ...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 years ago
New Asia Republic

Network Marketing Ideas That Can Make A Big Difference - [image: 4405616339_69afc96727]Multi level marketing can be a profitable endeavor to undergo if you have the ideal information from the start. If you can ...
4 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...
5 years ago
Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City

Tio NDP - [Source: http://sporesays.blogspot.com/] How apt.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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) ...
6 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...
6 years ago
To Fix a Mocking Peasant

Livejournal Spam - Livejournal is an official spam sponge. Argh.
6 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
My Thoughts...

One Country's Misfortune is Another's Political Mileage - *There are some quarters in Singapore that would be looking at the unfortunate religious tension in Malaysia as an 'opportunity' instead of the sad socia...
7 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...
7 years ago
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